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If you want to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat its women

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by AroundTheWorld, Jul 21, 2014.

  1. fchowd0311

    fchowd0311 Member

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    I honestly do not know at this point if you are trolling or being serious. And how am I an immigrant? Your post is just random incoherent ramblings. I suggest you hang out with a better crowd if you think all women are uneducated whores in the U.S. That's your problem, not mine. Deal with it.

    It's amazing how people like you believe that sexually active women in society equates to uneducated and unproductive members of society who have no morals or values.
     
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  2. Mathloom

    Mathloom Shameless Optimist

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    What was called Arab back then bears little resemblance to what we call Arab today. Arabia really became more united because of Islam. North Africa was not Arab. Bedouins were a different group. Levantines were not really Arab at all. Yemenis and Western peninsula settlers were considered the civilized ones. You get the point.

    To address your question, I guess parts of it yes. But other parts no. For example:

    - Eveyone loved booze.
    - Slavery was kosher.
    - Society was radically more male dominant (I know, shocking)
    - There was no semblance of national or spiritual unity.
    - Children/women were commodities (female babies being buried was routine)
    - Written literacy was frowned upon

    Really it's a mix of Arabian culture and counter-culture. If you want to see the closest product of pre-600AD Arabian culture, you would have to look at ISIS or Al Qaeda or the Taliban, for example. If you look at those groups, or colonial powers of today - those are really the types of people the Islamic Prophet came to destroy.

    A small but important distinction: Today's Islam is the product of demolished and rebuilt Arabian culture circa 600AD, filtered through Arabian/Amazighi/Andalusian/Ottoman culture, rebranded by puppet colonial culture. This can be seen, for example, in how the Prophet - though clearly a revolutionary of his time for freedom of expression - has now been stripped of that virtue in public sermons, and thus sits in the minds of undereducated Muslim youths as a strict traditionalist to be copied rather than a reformer to be studied. Given your understanding of regional politics, I assume you understand why that would be considered desirable by those who have the money to fund most of the Islamic materials in the 3rd world.
     
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  4. AroundTheWorld

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    Not that there is anything wrong with that - but there was really no need to point this out. It was obvious.
     
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    I thought about saying this but decided to go with useless gifs instead.
     
  6. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Arab countries certainly are not modern cultures and have a long way to go. The key to improving conditions for women is to industrialize and educate those societies. Every culture pre-industrialization kept women lower, including our own.

    First industrialize, which is the key to woman's liberation.
     

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