I don't know. I wish she would.

But "adults" allow themselves to be abused all the time. It has something to do with a mentality of helplessness they learn as children when they are trying to survive abuse. They learn to cooperate.

As an earlier post said, Britney makes many more millions for other people than she makes for herself. She is cooperating with this for some reason. They tell her to go on stage, she goes on stage. They tell her to release an album on which she can be said to be singing the songs only in the most technical sense, she does that.

Why? Dunno. She's obviously miserable and just going through the motions.

We are all asking why doesn't she stop? Something to do with her emotional maturity most likely. She is still that 17 year old in her mind.

we don't know what contracts she has signed with whom. It doesn't clear up the clothing issue, though.

Just a p.s.

Cinnamon is a name most people would use for a poodle or a bunny rabbit. But then, "Mitt" is a dog's name too.

I notice that conservative women and men both often have vaguely pet like names (or porn star like). Just an observation.

please do not fall for this old and tired saw that "because Christianity is bad, that makes Islam okay".

It doesn't. It just makes them both bad.

It's also a little dishonest to drag the worst atrocities of Christianity out of the Dark Ages and say this means Christianity in its current avatar is the same as Islam today. Christianity is very different now, thanks to having lost its power and clout. If Islam were that powerless, it would change too. That's what Hirsan Ali means when she says "Islam must be crushed"--she wants to see it get to that stage, of being powerless in a political sense. However I have to disagree with her rhetoric. To too many people, "crushing Islam" means killing Muslims. But I digress...

There was no fatwa issued against FGM until a great deal of first world outrage was directed against it. Islam was and still is largely silent on the topic.

Your outburst does not hide the fact that you cannot deny the basic charge--that Islam advocates the death penalty for women who commit immoral acts. Whether executed by order of Sharia of your family--what difference does it make? Dead is dead.

forking out red stars to all the politically correct folks. Good for you guys.

Anyway, to answer Bob's question, yes, I wouldn't hesitate to say that Europe and America have been influenced, formed, etc. by Christianity, including the most unsavoury elements of that belief system. I think you'd have to be an idiot to deny it.

Christianity's insistence on Armageddon may well get the whole human race killed.

BUT that does excuse Islam for being a misogynist religion, and it's a fallacy of distraction to drag Christianity into the argument under those circumstances.

actually you could; if all Americans were Orthodox Christians and a religious practice were under examination, then it would make a great deal of sense to examine both Russia and America.

Muslims make a great deal of fuss about there being "no sects and no divisions" in Islam. This isn't entirely true, of course, but they do have their Ummah--the common body of believers that doesn't have an exact equivalent in Christianity. The ritual of Hajj is the greatest manifestation of the Ummah.

Since Muslims themselves have this concept of unity (even though their intercine wars make a mockery of it) it does make some sense to talk about Muslims collectively instead of as different cultural units not related to one another.

To just dismiss this important concept in Islam is an apologists stance. If Muslims want to claim worldwide unity, then they can take collective responsibility for what Islam teaches about women.

when you wrote that Sikhs were Muslims I had to pretty much stop reading your input.

I mean this not unkindly, but it really is no use arguing with someone who does not know a Sikh from a Muslim.

I would similarly propose that you aren't really trying to imagine how 1,400 years of Sharia law could shape a culture, rather than the other way around.

You're just haggling for the sake of it now.