Letters to the Editor
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Islam and women
I never cease to be amazed at the great lengths some fuzzy-thinking, excessively politically correct folks like Tracy hypenated whatever, will go to do defend Islam and Islamists.
It's obvious, long-standing, and widespread that the bad treatment of women in general, and violence in particular, is epidemic in many Islamic countries, and also widely accepted-- or it wouldn't be so longlasting or widespread. It's so obvious and well-known that one wonders what motivations this article's author has to try denying or soft-pedalling it--the old "everyone does some of it", totally obscures the reality that Islamic countries in general often treat their women as chattel, or at best second-class citizens in many ways, completely at variance to what exists in non-Islamic countries today.
And to quote a disingenuous disclaimer from a representative of the Council on Islamic Relations verges on the laughable-- this organization has a long history of mendacious distortion of fact and history to support their radical Islamist agenda, and have been shown to have close ties to terrorist-supporting organizations.
It's time that this type of politically correct nonsense be stopped, in the interest of reality in confronting the menace of violent worldwide jihad, masquerading as reasonable people-- look at the facts, not the claims about radical Islam.