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Originally Posted by jaxie
It bewilders me that the oppression of women and girls on that scale is so acceptable to some people in the name of a fantasy deity that men decide to speak for. 
How do you manage to confuse that with racism? |
I don't think anyone is defending men who oppress women. What they are defending are womens rights. If we make false blanket statements that all Muslim women are oppressed and therefore we should ban the burka, we are unintentionally oppressing the women who are not abused and who choose to wear that garment.
Muslims are guilty of carrying out more FGM than any other religion but along the African continent, Christians also carry out this practice along with none religious tribes who see it as tradition; so if we want to fight such barbarities we can't just concentrate on Muslim populations.