Explain to me again how Muslim women are NOT oppressed in Muslim nations.?

OK! But Sharia law is practice in the US as well as the other countries you mentioned and it is Sharia law that oppresses Muslim women regardless where they live. As long as the Quran instructs Muslim men to whip their wives, the wives will be oppressed.

Islamic fundamentalism establishes its thesis on the differences between the sexes and the conclusion that the male is superior, and hence, the female is a slave at his service....From the fundamentalist mullahs’ perspective, sexual vice and virtue are the principal criteria for evaluation of women. The most ignoble and unforgivable of all sins is sexual wrongdoing. Piety, chastity and decency are measured by sex-related yardsticks, and seldom applied to political and social realms.

Fundamentalism conceives of woman as sinister and satanic; she is the embodiment of sin and seduction. She must not step beyond her house, lest her presence in society breed sin. She must stay at home, serving her husband’s carnal desires; if she fails to comply, she is compelling her man to commit sin outside the home.

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/mhv... On February 12, 2009, Muzzammil Hassan informed police that he had beheaded his wife. Hassan had emigrated to the United States 30 years ago and, after a successful banking career, had founded Bridges TV, a Muslim-interest network which aims, according to its website, "to foster a greater understanding among many cultures and diverse populations." Erie County District Attorney Frank A.

Sedita III told The Buffalo News that "this is the worst form of domestic violence possible," and Khalid Qazi, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Western New York, told the New York Post that Islam forbids such domestic violence. While Muslim advocacy organizations argue that honor killings are a misnomer stigmatizing Muslims for what is simply domestic violence, a problem that has nothing to do with religion, Phyllis Chesler, who just completed a study of more than 50 instances of North American honor killings, says the evidence suggests otherwise. Amina Said (L), 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, were shot dead by their father Yaser at their home in Irving, Texas, in January 2008.

Said was upset by his daughters' "Western ways" and was assisted in the killing by his wife, the girls' mother. The victims of honor killings are largely teenage daughters or young women. Unlike ordinary domestic violence, honor killings often involve multiple family members as perpetrators.

http://www.meforum.org/2067/are-honor-ki... Are you suggesting these women weren't oppressed? Yes the developing world in general has a long way to go to live up to certain standards but this does not mean that we are a horrible and barbaric society. Can you name a Muslim country making billions each year that isn't a "developing country?"

Take India and Pakistan for example. These countries share the same birthday as they stopped being in Brittish control at the same time. Now compare India with Pakistan and make your case.

Hope this helps.

I never said that. But out of curosity, are you allowed to choose the man your going to marry? Are you given the same amount of freedom as an American girl living in America? Well done for asnwering BOTH of my questions, you may be an odd exception when it comes to Muslims, because pretty much ALL of the muslims I know come from religious and strict families.

You do realize that most of everything you have admitted, especially the "my parents don't believe in hijabs" CLEARLY points out that you and your family are not following Islamic teachings. If you were, you (along with other female members of your family) would be oppressed. The reason you and your family is not, is because you are not behaving like a typical muslim.

Because a muslim has rules and practices he/she MUST follow in order to be a true muslim. Okay so I am not going to be returning to reply your answers again, just thought I'd let you know :). Though you may be right that islam does not teach anymore than to have good values, I am sure you will agree with me that though your religion (islam) does not opress women, the men in your culture do.

Don't try and give me the "but my dad allows me" arguement because your dad's action does not count for all muslims. Similary, I accept your point that not all muslim women are opressed and I am not arguing with you here. My point (after some refurnishing of my beliefs and ideas) is that your culture and majority of your men do opress their women.

This I say based on what I have seen and experienced. And if you havent noticed, majority of non-muslims all have the same opinion about it. Majority of the population arn't stupid to just "assume" something like this.

They too have seen and perhaps experienced it. Thank you and have a great day.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.