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nalnn (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 12:55 PM Original message |
When wives are set on fire for their dowry |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. Excuse me. Is there a connection... |
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nalnn (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. No |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:06 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. It looked very much to me... |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. that buring Korans is trivial or worthy of sarcasm |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I don't agree. As a violent expression of bitter prejudice against an entire group... |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 06:33 PM Response to Reply #11 |
41. What's disgusting is pretending that burning some bundled pieces of paper is the moral equivalent of |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
25. "wives-for-sale" |
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nalnn (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Let me clarify |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:57 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. This is about money and the lack of value of women. |
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nalnn (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:07 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Indeed |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 06:04 PM Response to Reply #18 |
39. Religion is the enforcement arm of patriarchy. |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. That-- and |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. Barbarians |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. God is love. |
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al bupp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. 'Tis telling, sir, that the burning of a book... |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Acts of violation against a person's faith USUALLY rouse more passion... |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 09:04 AM Response to Reply #5 |
43. Well the Koran is important |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
7. Disgusting barbarians |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. Male-supremacist concepts are the core of organized patriarchal religions .... |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
12. dowry killings happen very frequently all over south asia. |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:53 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. But when the religion teaches that women are inferior |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. all religions teach us that women are inferior. nt |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
16. The Obama Administration needs to arm these women n/t |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
17. k/r n/t |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
19. Yes, in this modern day and age people still behave in barbaric |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
20. AT LEAST an eye-for-an-eye is called for here. |
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hayu_lol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:22 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. In Libya, 1962, brideprice was $700... |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
23. what does this have to do with the koran? the dowry is an old hindu tradition |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. It's in the article |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:30 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. yes, i understand the article. i still dont get how this directly relates to the koran |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Women are inferior in Islam in the Quran. So in Bangladesh, it's both cultural |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. women are inferior in every religion, if you read the text literally. |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:39 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Islam certainly has contributed to enforcing the patriachy of the existing culture. |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 09:05 AM Response to Reply #31 |
44. And yet every religion treats women differently |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:44 PM Response to Reply #28 |
37. And for what it's worth, I'm not the author of the OP. That reference to the Quran |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:30 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. I guess people just like blaming religion for things. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. they should atleast pick the right religion to blame |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. All patriarchal religions share culpability. Since Bangladesh is primarily |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. this country is mostly christian, but you can hardly blame christianity |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:42 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Oh but I can and do blame christianity for enforcing cultural stereotypes |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 06:11 PM Response to Reply #33 |
40. Insane logic? |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:43 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Why do you assume that religion dictates what is essentially an economic practice? |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:50 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Why is the assumption always that the man has to be the provider? |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
42. More religious bullshit. |
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