Stepping away from 'religion'... girls getting married at such an early age, ie at the onset of their periods making child rearing possible, is something that used to be the way of things here within the US. As for clit removal, and I won't yet touch on the esoteric things, but a woman without her clit is far more dependent upon her man for sex and is far less likely to stray into independent living and into the 'equality' mind set. Veils protect the gems, the women in many ways. Even men wear head coverings yet the issue is somehow that it is unfair for the women. Ask the women. What is it they choose? It seems more than not many of them would not have it much different than they do, if different at all.
It is such a difficult subject, the sharia law, but because so much of our world enslaves itself instead of recognizing the ready given protections, the freedoms for what they potentially mean on the deepest of levels. Some consider a forty hour a week career paying 100,000.00 a year enslavement to a beast... it seems the issue is not within the written laws but rather in the perception of such.
Most of women in those middle east countries are very[/U] well eduacted,
Maybe more than here. Their choice of freedom is very little to nothing, you think Melissa, our problems start with circumcision? it is something women there can not dare to think about. It happens to us at a young age, not even knowing what is going on, we learned to live with it. Maybe now there is awareness of it, that they stopped in SOME areas, and countries but back then it was a must everywhere, like immunization. Still, kids at age of 6 and 8 don't know why they doing it, moms doing it for their daughters bcoz it had been done to them.
Our big problems are not about sex, or circumsicion. Here's an idea, freedom of speech, ignoring women votes and rights as human beings. Treating us like second hand citizens, sexual harrassment at work, discrimnation of christians, poverty, unemployment, rape,... and you telling me sex and circumsicion? REALLY?