re: #68 JasonA

To quote Roddy McDowell, “People are alike… everywhere.”

Rokaya Mohamed, an elementary school teacher, would rather die than take off her face veil

I linked that earlier- fascinating read, and yes- fundamentalist islam is highly misogynistic, imo. But so are other fundamentalist religions. With the dominionist types, they would repress women as much as some islamic societies do, but we in America would be in an invisible burqa. In a way- that’s almost worse, because at least with a real burqa, I know I’m being openly shunned.