posted on Jun, 7 2012 @ 02:27 PM
My only genuine gripe with Islam is that by and large, women are generally treated like manure (and the women accept it as their duty). And this has
not changed with the times the way many other similar faiths have. One can look at Saudi Arabia as a prime example. Anyone looking to down talk me and
claim I don't know what I speak about, I've been to Dubai, Kuwait, Iraq and Saudi as a female in the military and aside from Dubai, culture shock
really doesn't even come close to describing the experience. Now, I may not be the most well traveled and well versed in the "qu'ran", but seeing
is believing. Maybe my eyes deceived me too, who knows. I certainly won't come up here making apologies in their behalf when as a female, I have
watched my fellow kind be abused in many ways and the sour part is their own religion supports it. It's here in the western world too. I have family
members that have converted (or as they claim, "reverted") to Islam and they generally begin to act boorish towards women if they are a male, and
put up with such nonsense if they are female...and I actually have one aunt that is stuck in an abusive relationship afraid to get out because he has
threatened to kill her. When you have known someone before a drastic change like that happens in their life, you see the cult for what it is. You can
label me closed minded, ignorant, intolerant or what have we, but I do not buy the religion of peace line. I'm not a Christian or a Jew either (nor
am I of any religion), but I'm just going to go ahead and point out the bleeding obvious that most sects of Christianity and Judaism don't condone
beating their wives and treating them like a 3rd class citizen, issuing death threats to everyone who disses their cul/-whoops, I meant religion, and
blowing up stuff just because some cartoons got them upset. There is really little comparison, and even the non-religious minded can see that.