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This guy was unusual in that he killed his daughter because she wouldn't wear a hijab. Was he unusual in expecting his daughter to wear one? Isn't that oppressive in itself?
In some Islamic countries, stoning women who commit adutery, lashing women who go out with a non-familial male companion, and killing girls who date outside the clan, is the rule of the law.
When someone from such a state moves here, are we to expect they automatically change their beliefs, that they now think women should be allowed to wear what they want, drive, get jobs, etc?
I dont' assume that most Muslims are incapable of living in an open, non-islamic society. But, this guy, the people who want to kill Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Salman Rushdie, and people who think they can tell women to wear hijabs/burkhas/whatever, are barbarians. A country that invites them should understand it does so at the expense of the liberties of it's own citizens, particularly women.
