06-12-2005, 03:26 PM
Actually they were better analogies than you realize. Because they were about perceptions not the religions themselves.
Im not defending or attacking Islam at all here. I am attacking the faulty analysis methods that are the foundation of this thread.
And you make a mistake in your analysis "This gets us to where we agree. The sub genres of a culture do not always line up: as true in our own country as anywhere else. What you can say is that those Muslim cultures, or subcultures, that have embraced some elements of the Enlightenment are more likely to accept better social equality,"
What the purist forms of Islam would utterly reject what happened in Pakistan. Most everything that happened in that case is rather contrary to Islamic law. Im quite comfortble saying Islam direpects women, but this case is really just a bunch of primative asses disrespecting women(and young boys it appears).
Im not defending or attacking Islam at all here. I am attacking the faulty analysis methods that are the foundation of this thread.
And you make a mistake in your analysis "This gets us to where we agree. The sub genres of a culture do not always line up: as true in our own country as anywhere else. What you can say is that those Muslim cultures, or subcultures, that have embraced some elements of the Enlightenment are more likely to accept better social equality,"
What the purist forms of Islam would utterly reject what happened in Pakistan. Most everything that happened in that case is rather contrary to Islamic law. Im quite comfortble saying Islam direpects women, but this case is really just a bunch of primative asses disrespecting women(and young boys it appears).