marigold

in response to your question, i will give, what should be a predictible answer by now.

first, there is a difference between 'religion' and 'custom'.
not all muslim women wear robes or bhurkas or whatever. that depends on the tradition of where they come from. for example, if you walk down the streets of istanbul (and most of turkey), or cairo, or most parts of iraq (before the invasion), algeria, you see women dressed quite similar to how westerners dress.

secondly, the koran is, as i'm sure you know, not the only religion which has sexist texts. christianity, judaism, and many others have the same. and i have given you many exmaples of these texts before, especially when you were abuela, so i should not have to go through that again now.

thus, this takes us back to the original point that there is 'religion' .
then there is 'custom' or 'tradition', i.e. how religion actually gets used and interpreted in everyday life.

this goes on a spectrum from fundamentalist religion who interperate texts literally (there are islamic fundamentalists, and christian ones, and jewish ones, all on the rise at the moment). fundamentalism tends to be more popular in rural areas for all of these religions.

to secularisation, where the literal text has very little bearing on people's everyday lives. secularism being generally more popular in urban areas.

if you want to see sexist, opressive christianity in action in this century, take a trip to some of the rural areas of the united states, where christian and mormon women are made to dress a certain way, and made to participate in a very subservient roles to males.

so, back to your original point. it is ridiculous to suggest, or believe, that in a modern secular country, that your rights are in any way will be impinged upon by islam. especially considering how little of a population there is, and the fact that the ones that are here will become more secualr all the time, just like most of the christian have.

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