I've given you evidence that 210 million are being oppressed. You're ignorantly refusing to see the distinction between the feeling of oppression and institutionalised oppression again.


Click. Islamic women from 47 countries got together to lobby for equal rights. Type in 'Timbuktu 200 women' and you'll see a protest against sharia is Mali, in which the 200 women were subsequently jailed. There are very many disincentives that stop women from protesting sharia, some of them being the same disincentives that stop women from reporting rape.

There's parts of the article I posted that I'm going to paste, since they validate my prior argument about context, and how there was a time and place for sharia, but now there isn't. It also speaks to my post before, about we should be doing our best to improve Iranian relations since they're our natural ally, rather than do our best to retard relations.

The article says, "She referred to the work of Muslim intellectuals, like Nasr Abu Zayd of Egypt and Abdolkarim Soroush of Iran, among others, reformers who argue that the Koran must be read in historical context, and that laws derived from it - stoning for adultery, for example - can change with the times. Both men are in exile in the West.

Mir-Hosseini argues that Muslim societies are trapped in a battle between two visions of Islam. One, legalistic and absolutist, emphasizes the past. The other is pluralistic and more inclined toward democracy. In Iran, reformers were gaining ground, she said, but President George W. Bush's war on terror put them on the defensive."