Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 19, 2004 03:59 PM
I thought it was a good post!
People should be allowed to do whatever they want, as long as it does not hurt others. Extreme censorship does hurt the people who want access to information, honor killings (I do not know if this is the proper english term) does hurt the victim (who's crime may have been to fall in love), forced marriage hurt the involved parties, suppressing women's rights in the society does hurt the women.
This is all stuff practiced in many Islamic countries, and I do not know how anyone can justify this as "just being their culture", or that there are good reasons to keep these cultural traditions -- and although it might be wrong for me to tie the above actions together with Islam, it is a problem even in Denmark (where I live) with that part of our population which have come here from the Arabic world.
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Re:Who are you trying to convince ?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 19, 2004 03:59 PMPeople should be allowed to do whatever they want, as long as it does not hurt others. Extreme censorship does hurt the people who want access to information, honor killings (I do not know if this is the proper english term) does hurt the victim (who's crime may have been to fall in love), forced marriage hurt the involved parties, suppressing women's rights in the society does hurt the women.
This is all stuff practiced in many Islamic countries, and I do not know how anyone can justify this as "just being their culture", or that there are good reasons to keep these cultural traditions -- and although it might be wrong for me to tie the above actions together with Islam, it is a problem even in Denmark (where I live) with that part of our population which have come here from the Arabic world.
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