Religion

[crazydil]

There have been a few threads in regards to religion and without exception there are always a few posters who cannot help themselves from being disrespectful.

Is it difficult to get a point across without a slight dig? Criticism is part of a healthy discussion but to be so rude about something that is very important to some. ..is it really needed?
I've never felt the need to be rude about anyones belief no matter how strange I find it to be.

So basically aibu in expecting respect in any conversation

a Saudi princess was publicly shot in the head for adultery.

(It's getting like Monty Python here ... that's lucky)

Anyone old enough to remember this ??

From a day when TV really was pushing the envelope.

I can't seem to find a clip online, but the satirical show "Not The Nine O'Clock News" had a spoof apology for the above program which was deadly satire then (and would be just as valid today).

In Saudi Arabia, all women need a male guardian, without whose permission they are not allowed to travel, get married or divorced, get a education or a job, have medical treatment or open a bank account, amongst many other things.

But they aren't oppressed, are they, Stateless?

I don't think anyone using Saudi as a good excample of a good state for women is going to get very far. It is possible to take the Islam of my cleaner who doesn't cover up at all and who lives here and works etc and presumably has an Islam like the C of E where you are good to others and respect other people and possible to argue bits of the Koran like the Bible were right in their time and trying to help men and women and the oppressed.

The idea of letting women keep all their gold on marriage in islaim and income after whilst men must keep their wives and inheritance rules flowing from that reflect what was appropriate in deserts over 1000 years ago in a country where women were second to men and indeed the rules not made by God but in fact invented by man were designed to protect women.

However they are all misguided as there is no God and certainly Saudi is a pretty awful example on all kinds of levels.