sorry that went too quickly. continued ... for what it really stands for and set themselves and their women folk free from barbarism.

The people here continue to defend the followers of Islam but are quick to denounce every other equally archaic religious group with their comparisons when the other religions are not even addressed or defended in the post in the first place

@granny:I am surprised you expected anything logical from these hypocrites.These cowards are probably afraid of being stoned to death.LOL

@godlessguy, @tiredofthis1 Who is "The people here", "these hypocrites" and "these cowards"?

How can critcism of Islam be racist?. Islam encompases virtually every race in the world. As for the religion being mysoginist, of course it is. Have you read any of Ayan Hirsi Ali's books ?.
I am not a great fan of Jacar but we criticise Christianity constantly on this site but other religions seem to be out of bounds.

@AnneWimsey Sorry. I don't follow you. Are you referring to the video posted. I haven't watched it, or are you referring to Ayan Hirsi Ali's writing ?

@Moravian the video and specific parts of it.....plus how it was interpreted/posted which obviously has pretty much Nothing to do with the actual content.

@TheMiddleWay I stated both...specific references to the video plus remarks on the OP....somehow you missed that?

@TheMiddleWay ummm, last 2 entire paragraphs of my original post at top of this thread? Discussing the interview subject?

@TheMiddleWay the woman is the Subject of the video! Her opening comments in the video were quoted by me. Should I have commented on the sound/picture quality, or ummm, the Content? You are too weird for me, no common sense at all......

@Moravian so you do not agree that skewering a specific group with pejorative language is wrong?

@AnneWimsey By specific group do you mean all of Islam ?. The religion probably has as many divergent groups as Christianity. For example Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah of the Ahmadi sect was murdered by an extremeist Sunni muslim for wishing his customers a happy easter. There are other sects which are probably free of mysoginism but I would think that women are suppressed in all Islamic countries just as there still are to an extent in the Christian West.

@Moravian I was relying to the OP, who obviously lumps them all together. What exactly 8s yourcomprehension problem(s)? And oppressed in Xianity "to an extent"?

Female Imams? No they don't they have adopted this new title called a "Sheikha" which is suppose to hold a leadership position but they do not equate to male imams, sheikhas cannot give a fatwa (law), they cannot perform marriages and most importantly they cannot give the Khutba or friday sermon or lead prayer because only a male imam can. A female imam could only be found in a secular country but truly has no worth overall other than emotionally pampering females while telling them chapter 4 verse 34 is just a metaphor of getting beat by your husband...Islam gives women NO authoritative position

@Mofo1953 What the hell do mysoginistic Catholics have to do with with this subject .It seems like you are suggesting that one evil religious group legitimizes the other .No one said the Catholic religion was any better did they ?

@drkhannabis some countries allow female imams.
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@drkhannabis, @richiegtt no, what I am saying, not suggesting, is that most religions are mysoginistic.

@drkhannabis. No authoritative position whatsoever!!!

@Mofo1953 fascinating that the concept of an imam is being challenged and reformed but regardless I'd like to know what woman is granted all the rights of an imam, leading prayer is one role others are marrying people off, funeral rights, istekharas or answer dreams and anointment of the quran on children. I know of the all women's mosque in California, with a female imam, many males aren't a proponent of it and even fewer male imams condone it and the amount of controversy it brought to a so called progressive state was huge. It's not allowed in Islam as a fundamental rule with exception but regardless its not universally accepted. The article also stated a woman disguised herself as a male imam to give a khutba but was arrested, so again allowance and acceptance aren't the same thing in this context because this shit would never fly in orthodox countries like saudi arabia... and lets be honest if you're not a salafi are you really a muslim? and yes all religions are misogynistic, this I agree.

@richiegate I applaud her for being bold to expose them.

@TimeOutForMe Exactly!