I am curious about something....

[Occhidiangela]

Perhaps the term I'm misunderstanding is the notion of supporting Islamic culture.

Is your question 'how can any western, non muslim woman support any aspect of muslim culture", or does it just pertain to the parts about beating, raping, oppressing, etc... women? It seems pretty obvious that nobody who values women's rights would support that. But that's just one part of the culture, yes?

Would you find it strange for a western, non-muslim world to support muslim art, music, literature, religion (from a less fundamentalist perspective) and whatnot, but oppose the poor treatment of women?

Jester
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The Bolshoi Ballet was a great draw for the artsy crowd, even when the Soviet Union was in full repression. Muslim Art is doubtless like a lot of other art, an acquired taste, poetry likely the same, prose literature probably the best medium of cultural reciprocity.

What little Muslim music, or rather Arabic music, that I heard was cacophonous to my ear (again, a subjective measure, I find Greek music similarly galling) though there are plenty of pop bands who sing songs in Arabic to recognizably "decadent" Western musical forms.

Occhi