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Originally Posted by Ele View Post
You're refusing to change your position based on the available evidence because you're just so sure that you've always got the best answer. You've got some weird ideology where only you're right, and if anything actually happens to contradict what you think, then you skirt and deceive and do your best to grind the argument to a halt. It's not a healthy way of thinking, and it won't help you make any friends. I say this for your sake.

You realize that you are describing yourself?

Think about it.

It's not healthy.
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The position I've taken in this thread is that under Sharia women have less rights. For those who cbf researching Sharia, I posted a link that goes into the lack of rights that women have under it. There's a reason why my position isn't changing. It's because women actually do have less rights under Sharia. This isn't a contested point. Everybody recognises this. Everybody except Pig - because Pig's Pig.

I haven't responded to you much in this discussion because you're clearly on one side with your bias, and you're clearly either not mature enough to engage in a reasonable discussion, or you just lack the knowledge/capacity to understand what we're going on about. If you want to dance though, then fine. Tell me how the Cairo Declaration (that reaffirms Sharia law and its inherent gender inequality) doesn't restrict women's rights? Go on, tell me.


Originally Posted by IBlackleon View Post
Womans show only your face=Dont make people horny like animals, stop rape, stop born of fatherless babies.

Rape still happens. The difference is under Sharia there are many, many, disincentives that dissuade women from reporting it (e.g. honor killing). Convicting a man of rape under Sharia is nigh impossible, requiring the corroboration of four male witnesses to ensure it isn't thrown out of court. @Pig, this is a great example of upstanding equality, isn't it?
Last edited by Ele; Jan 13, 2015 at 08:25 AM.
Judging on how you claimed women have no rights in Islam without evidence, I don't know how to take you seriously. I would link to those posts but it's a hassle when using mobile device. Just go 1 or 2 pages back and you will see how you quoted my response and edited out the parts that made you look ignorant.
Edit: it's on post#63

Anyways, I don't have a degree in sharia but I found an article. http://www.whyislam.org/faqs/understanding-shariah/

Another one: http://www.islamicity.com/articles/A...ef=RS1108-4817

You will see that it constantly mentions equality and promotes peace.

Your link doesn't work on my phone, apologies, I'll see it on the weekend.
Last edited by xlr84life; Jan 13, 2015 at 09:44 AM.
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Originally Posted by xlr84life View Post
Anyways, I don't have a degree in sharia but I found an article. http://www.whyislam.org/faqs/understanding-shariah/

You will see that it constantly mentions equality and promotes peace.

Ignoring that you've decided that 'WhyIslam' is an unbiased source of information, you haven't answered my question.

I said, "Tell me how the Cairo Declaration (that reaffirms Sharia law and its inherent gender inequality) doesn't restrict women's rights?". So, tell me.

If you can't (as I suspect you can't (since Sharia does restrict womens rights)), then you'll just have to integrate this newfound knowledge in your outlook on Sharia. Whatever you do, don't just block it out of your mind and argue on anyways. We don't need another Pig.

edit:
You, and a few others here, also need to recognise that there's a difference between intent and result. You can make your arguments that Islam is great because the scripture says it is, but that flies in the face of reality - it doesn't reflect the current result of its intentions. Scripture can say that women are equal, but if women can't leave the house without permission, or seek employment without permission, then women aren't really equal, are they? There's a difference between what it tries to do and what it actually does.

I also want to counter this bit of ignorance;
Originally Posted by Augans View Post
The women in most cases have chosen to be treated with "inequality" by themselves. It's their own religion and it's up to them whether they believe in a certain God and follow by his/her moral standards and religious laws.

Apostates (people that renounce their religion) under Sharia law can be punished with death.
Last edited by Ele; Jan 13, 2015 at 10:10 AM.
The unbiased site provides evidence. Just because you don't agree with it? It's not healthy thinking man.

" The CDHRI gives men and women the "right to marriage" regardless of their race, colour, or nationality,*but not religion
. In addition, women are given "equal human dignity", "own rights to enjoy", "duties to perform", "own civil entity", "financial independence", and the "right to retain her name and lineage",*but not equal rights in general"

I don't see where it restricts women rights.

Men and women are equal. With different rights. Why don't you argue on the part where men is responsible for spending on the family? And that women don't have to? At the end the hardships of both genders equal up. You just don't want to know about it.


Now, find me solid proof where Islam says women are less valued than man. You can't. We are both equally important.
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Originally Posted by xlr84life View Post
" The CDHRI gives men and women the "right to marriage" regardless of their race, colour, or nationality,*but not religion
. In addition, women are given "equal human dignity", "own rights to enjoy", "duties to perform", "own civil entity", "financial independence", and the "right to retain her name and lineage",*but not equal rights in general"

I don't see where it restricts women rights.

"The CDHRI concludes in article 24 and 25 that all rights and freedoms mentioned are subject to the Islamic sharia, which is the declaration's sole source."
Do you understand what that means? That means that any assurance of rights or freedoms are filtered through Sharia law. You have the Sharia version of 'financial independence' which equates to 'women can't work without permission of their husbands'. If we're reading and quoting from wiki, then why don't we quote one of the introductory passages as well? "It guarantees many of the same rights as the UDHR (cf. liberal Islam), while at the same time reaffirming the inequalities inherent in Islamic law and tradition in terms of religion, gender, sexuality, political rights, and other aspects of contemporary society at odds with Islamic law and traditions."

Originally Posted by xlr84life View Post
Men and women are equal. With different rights. Why don't you argue on the part where men is responsible for spending on the family? And that women don't have to? At the end the hardships of both genders equal up. You just don't want to know about it.

That's not how equality works. You don't get equality by balancing the lack of rights of women with the lack of rights of men.

Originally Posted by xlr84life View Post
Now, find me solid proof where Islam says women are less valued than man. You can't. We are both equally important.

Off the topic of my head, under Sharia, women's accounts as witnesses are weighed half as much men - two female accounts = one male account.
I can also recall, earlier in this thread, or the other one, Moonshake posting from the Quran "Qur'an (2:228 ) - "And women shall have rights similar to the rights against them, according to what is equitable; but men have a degree (of advantage) over them".

Now, I also recall telling you the difference between intent and result. For the last time, it doesn't matter what the fuck Islam says it is, the reality is reflected in Sharia law.

Originally Posted by Gorman View Post
Are you saying that mild inequality is actually equality?

I believe I'm saying that women not being able to leave the house without permission or being able to seek employment without permission is not mild.


Originally Posted by Gorman View Post
You sure dodged that question lol.

So I'm guessing you are trying to say once again that women are not oppressed...

I believe I'm saying that women not being able to leave the house without permission or being able to seek employment without permission is not mild.

Originally Posted by Gorman View Post
That's not true though, even the largest Muslim country in the world doesn't implement Sharia.

"The biggest Muslim country doesn't do it therefor you're lying". Link to application of Sharia law by country. All those Islamic countries in blue there have a system where they fully implement Sharia.

Originally Posted by Gorman View Post
Also there's no such thing as a country with a large number of wahabists [sic], go check out their demographics mate.

Countries in the Arabic Penninsula have rates of wahhabists in the 40s. Besides, I wasn't the one who first used the term 'wahhabist countries' - that was you. I was using the term for your sake.

Originally Posted by Gorman View Post
So are you trying to argue that when they /did/ accept the UDHR they weren't Islamic?

Nope. I'm arguing that most Muslim countries don't accept the UDHR. You said they did once. I said 'who the fuck cares, they don't now, and that's the point I'm making'. We're not having a discussion about Islam 20 years ago. We're having a discussion about Islam today.

Originally Posted by Gorman View Post
Either Islam doesn't conflict the UDHR (which is why they accepted it initially), or it does conflict and they weren't Islamic at that time. It's pretty simple.

Mate, you're right, it is pretty simple. A quick fact check will show you that the reason they split was because the UDHR was too secular, and they wanted a system that recognised Sharia as legit.
Last edited by Ele; Jan 13, 2015 at 11:50 AM.
Originally Posted by raaage View Post
The topic of this thread is "Is Islam a violent religion that needs to be avoided?".
If you really want to discuss gender inequality in Islamic nations then you may feel free to do so in a new thread, but this is way off-topic.

I like what proto said about this.

Originally Posted by protonitron View Post
Anyway, the real problem of the thread is that the current discussion does not really address the question at all. Nevertheless, the discussion seems to be enjoyable for those involved and nobody is being too aggressive or presumptuous so closing it would be a waste. The problem is in fact the narrow scope for discussion of the thread, which can't be blamed on the creator since this thread was not created under conventional circumstances and the creator most likely did not expect this topic/thread to be such a popular discussion. In other words I think it is fine for us to ignore the threads title and simply focus on whether Islam is a problematic and discriminatory religion (In general terms, the phraseology of this sentence is too questionable and unspecific to be acceptable but the general meaning should be clear enough). Luckily we all seem to be doing that already.

If you are going to try backseat moderating please at least have the common decency to do it properly.

I started writing a post saying that maybe Islam itself isn't the problem, but then I realized that if you follow Sharia, you HAVE TO respond with amputations for thievery, stoning for unfaithfulness, and flogging for consuming alcohol. Yeah, that's fucked up. Following Islam to the letter kind of sets society back a few hundred years.
Originally Posted by ynvaser View Post
I started writing a post saying that maybe Islam itself isn't the problem, but then I realized that if you follow Sharia, you HAVE TO respond with amputations for thievery, stoning for unfaithfulness, and flogging for consuming alcohol. Yeah, that's fucked up. Following Islam to the letter kind of sets society back a few hundred years.

If the punishments are the problem, are you saying it is ok to steal other people's property, allow your wife to sleep with another man, and going drunk where you could possibly go violent and where women pass out and get raped while unconscious?

@proton thanks for the link
Last edited by xlr84life; Jan 14, 2015 at 01:12 AM.
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