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Why Are Saudis Tearing Up the Quran?

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palmerskiss3/25/2014 12:46:15 pm PDT

re: #5 CuriousLurker

Ah, I missed that page. You’re very prolific and sometimes I can’t keep up. ;)

I’m not saying that I think Saudi atheists made their choices purely as a knee-jerk reaction, but as someone who spent several of her teen years living with a (Christian) fundamentalist parent, I do think that the shove-it-down-your-throat approach can create aversion where none would have existed otherwise. After all, look at where I ended up, heh. ;)

Since you brought up women, I bookmarked a Canadian site called Outburst! last night. I didn’t do a lot digging into who runs it, but neither did I recognize any known wingnuts/islamophobes or moonbats associated with it. The exceprt below, from their “about” section, rang true to me:

This is not directed at you, it’s just a general observation: There are few things more annoying than a person with limited understanding of your situation who says s/he wants to help, then proceeds to talk at or about you instead of to you, insisting that you do things their way because it works for them, even though you know it will never work in your community (like what FEMEN did—coincidentally, that links right back to the vocative site).

I’ll be happy to do that, to the extent that my knowledge & experience allows.

Thank you :)

I understand what you are saying about the evils of good intentions when they are used in place of good policy. the project is really just an attempt to create female superheroes from islamic pakistani women. what i would like to achieve is mythmaking - creating/sharing the stories of powerful women from the area to inspire women and men to see women in a different perspective than is the norm at the moment in pakistan - especially in the FATA….

i do understand the need to be sensitive and my goal here is to change the narrative on islam into a positive one in relation to women, not to attack it. i am an atheist of course, but i also understand the power of faith and the power of perspective.

I appreciate the time and effort you took in delicately keeping me in line :)