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dominates the culture; public newscasters casually attribute
occurrences to Allah without any controversy, domestic airlines
recite surahs from the Qur'an over the intercom during
flights, and so on.
Muslim countries touted as being more liberal, such as
Turkey, are such because they are not as strictly and fanatically
religious as countries like Saudi Arabia, where the laws
and regulations are for the most part drawn from edicts in
the Qur'an and where "religious police" (note that they aren't
called the cultural police) patrol the streets, harassing women
for showing their ankles, preventing women from driving,
enforcing the laws that prevent women from working, or
traveling without permission from a male guardian, and oh,
don't forget "beating young girls" to prevent them from escaping
a fire because they weren't wearing proper religious dress
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/1874471.stm).
I understand, respect, and appreciate people outside of
Islam trying to be open-minded about this religion. But to be
honest, sometimes it bothers me, and I think people can try
too hard to be "politically correct," for lack of a better expression,
about this topic and overlook the reality of life in Islam.
I'd like to reassert my argument that Muslim countries
heralded as being more liberal are not following Islam as
strictly. Any Muslim country that affords, for example, a
woman's testimony in court the same worth as a man's testimony,
is not actually following the Qur'an: one male witness
= two female witnesses (http://quran.com/2/282). The
same holds true for countries where polygamy is illegal, and
in most cases for any Muslim who affords a female heir the
same inheritance as a male heir (http://www.irf.net/).
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