Letters to the Editor
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Nuance
Please everyone. Drop this "nuance" word, once and for all. It is so overused and fxxxing meaningless, the same way that "at the end of the day" catchphrase is to begin a sentence.
OK. Now that I am done with that, ill treatment of women in whatever country and by whatever religion is a violation of human rights. Do men in this country consult their preachers before beating up their women? If they are preached time and again that women are property, which was an acceptable concept right through the late 20th century, yes. They could beat up their wives and children because after all, they were property. Not until recently, the courts kept away from matters of domestic violence, because what happened in the privacy of families was not the business of the law, even when many women landed up in ICUs with death threatening emergencies.
This whole approach of we are better than you at how we treat or mistreat our women, is like saying my daddy is bigger than your daddy. Can you, at least confirm that you have the same amount of rage when a woman is mistreated in our so-called liberated society?
It is ridiculous to condone such practices in other countries like Saudi Arabia which is at the forefront of such atrocious Wahabi practices against women. But Saudi Arabia is a huge ally of the US that has stayed out of addressing violations of human rights. Instead, this country has armed them to the gills to stamp out any dissent.
If you are not outraged by similar practices within your own environment, it is hard to preach to the unconverted.
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