They do it in Egypt too, and the African Muslim countries like Sudan, Mali etc its a tradition.
According to the World Health Organization, about 16%, world wide. 85% do not do it. Of course, Americans are perfect.
I am not defending or justifying domestic violence in any part of the world. But Americans need to look at themselves as well as at others and not be so arrogant and supercilious about this issue.
In the US: According to a report by the United States Department of Justice in 2000, a survey of 16,000 Americans showed 22.1 percent of women and 7.4 percent of men reported being physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, boyfriend or girlfriend, or date in their lifetime. ...
For women between 15 and 44, domestic violence is the leading cause of injury, more than rapes, muggings, and car accidents combined. 60% of American Indian and Alaska Native women will be physically assaulted in their lifetime. One in 6 women have experienced an attempted or completed rape against a partner. In 1999 in the United States, 1,218 women and 424 men were killed by an intimate partner, and 1,181 females and 329 males were killed by their intimate partners in 2005. According to the authors of "Housing Problems and Domestic Violence," 38% of domestic violence victims will become homeless in their lifetime. Domestic violence is the direct cause of homelessness for over half of all homeless women in the United States (wiki)
Instead of looking down your nose at other cultures (and religions, and yes, the intent of this thread is to promote hatred of Islam), look in your own backyard. American culture has plenty of faults of its own.
Pointing out truths about Islam is not hatred.
Islam thanks you for your blind support, but wants you to know you're little more than livestock to it.
So you are not concerned with finding fault with Islam, you just care about the treatment of women? So, why don't you start a thread about how in Thailand people sell their girl children into prostitution? Or how middle age and older men from the West, including the USA, do Sex Tours there so they can **** little girls, females who would be jail bait in their own countries? Or maybe a thread about how people in China throw female babies in ditches because they can only have one child and want a boy? Or how in India they have abortions when they learn the fetus is female? Oh, I know why you aren't concerned with these issues, though they as heinous if not more so than wife beating and genital mutilation: because in those countries, Islam is not the religion, and your goal is to talk about how bad Islam is.
BTW: Obama does not 'support' the Muslim Brotherhood. He maintains diplomatic relations with them. This is two very different things. I'm certain he would prefer to have better people to deal with, but he doesn't.
If you are so interested in the mistreatment of women, pick any one of these, one that doesn't just focus on how bad Islam is, and start a thread about that. I dare you.
Selective abortion and female
infanticideAmartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel Laureate for
Economics, estimates that more than 60
million women are demographically
‘missing’ from the world as a result of sexselective
abortions and female infanticide
in China, South Asia and North Africa.
The ‘female deficit’In poor communities, little girls are often
neglected and denied food, education and
medical care. Data from developing
countries indicates that the mortality rate
among girls aged one to four is higher than
that among boys in the same age group.
This is just the beginning of a lifetime pattern of discrimination against women in
differential access to health care, education
and leisure. This causes excess mortality
among women and girls, and contributes to
their lack of opportunities and
powerlessness.
UNICEF refers to maternal mortality as ‘in
scale and severity the most neglected
tragedy of our times.’
Some facts on women’s statusIn all manifestations of poverty, women tend
to fare worse than men:
• 66 per cent of the world’s illiterate people
are women.
• Women provide 70 per cent of the unpaid
time spent in caring for family members.
This unpaid work provided by women is
estimated at US$11 trillion per year – onethird
of the global GDP.
• Women own one per cent of the land in
the world.
• Women’s participation in managerial and
administrative posts is around 33 per cent
in the developed world, l5 per cent in
Africa and 13 per cent in Asia and the
Pacific.
• There are only five women chief
executives in the ‘Fortune 500’
corporations, the most valuable publicly
owned companies in the United States.
• Worldwide, only about fourteen per cent
of members of parliament are women.
Seven per cent of the world’s cabinet
ministers are women.
• In the United Nations system, women
hold only 9 per cent of the top
management jobs and 21 per cent of
senior management positions, but 48 per
cent of the junior professional civil service
slots.
These facts come from UNICEF, an organization I consider unbiased. If one is going to discuss an issue like this, any issue really, sources should be unbiased.
According to UNICEF,
the countries with the highest rate of rape are: Mexico with 42% (they're not Muslim), followed by Nicaragua, Peru, Thailand and Zimbabwe, which are in the 25% range.
Sexual abuse of girlsA review of 25 studies worldwide indicates
that 11 to 32 percent of women report
having experienced childhood sexual
abuse.
Sexual abuse of girls, often by family
members, is widespread but shrouded in
taboo. In a treatment centre in Nigeria, 15
per cent of female patients requiring
treatment for sexually transmitted diseases
were under the age of five, with a further
six per cent between the ages of six and 15
years. In South Africa, one in four men
report having had sex with a woman
against her consent by the time he was 18
years of age.
These are just some of the things UNICEF informs us about. Read this site. There is widespread, world wide abuse of women in many cultures and countries, not just Islam and not any less heinous than what happens in Muslim countries. Try having a fair and open mind.
http://www.unicef.org/emergencies/files/women_insecure_world.pdf
