Egypt's Islamists warn giving women some rights could destroy society

Reuters.com ^ | March 14, 2013 | Michelle Nichols

[ilovesarah2012]

Destroying islam is definitely a good thing.

[douginthearmy]

Cairo University 1959

Cairo University 2004

[PapaBear3625]

I think it was Rush Limbaugh who said many years ago that the best way to bring down a repressive enemy regime would be to export radical feminism to that country.

After the first few feminists were dragged into the street, gang-raped, and beaten to death, the rest would engage in a contest to see who could make the most enthusiastic supporting statements about the regime.

Then again, the loudest feminists are just smart enough to realize this, and they don't even begin to protest people who would not hesitate to kill them.

[JimRed]

...a U.N. declaration on women's rights...

Islamist response: Who is ths "U.N." to tell us how to treat our property?

[PapaBear3625]

"The Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party..." Has there ever been such a misnamed organization?

In Islam, "freedom" is defined as being allowed to follow Islam; Justice is defined as the unquestioned application of Islamic Sharia law; and peace is defined as the condition where all submit to Islam.

[elcid1970]

As long as Islam disenfranchises & persecutes 50% of its numbers, the jihadis will always be coming at us with one foot already shot off.

[PapaBear3625]

As long as Islam disenfranchises & persecutes 50% of its numbers, the jihadis will always be coming at us with one foot already shot off.

Women did not have the vote in the US until 1920, and the US had gotten along OK from 1776 til then. Some would say that the US's slide away from a Constitutional Republic started with women getting the right to vote.

[AuntB]

“Women did not have the vote in the US until 1920, and the US had gotten along OK from 1776 til then. Some would say that the US’s slide away from a Constitutional Republic started with women getting the right to vote. “

I share your concern about that. It does show how much influence women had without the vote though, doesn’t it?
Same thing happening now with illegal aliens/immigration...aliens supposedly can’t vote either, but they sure are determining the outcome of our elections and the socialist direction the nation is heading.

[elcid1970]

And 1920 was also the same year when America did away with honor killings, disinheritance, FGM, burkas & cousin-marriage? Got it.

;^)

[Reeses]

Some would say that the US's slide away from a Constitutional Republic started with women getting the right to vote.

The growth trend of government as a percentage of the economy doesn't seem to be related to women voting. Population density tracks more closely. As people live in closer quarters, more government is needed to regulate neighbors activities. Young women out-gap young men in NYC by 10%, so the voter gap may be more about geographic overpopulation. The increasing use of the internet for work, play, and shopping combined with the first terrorist nuclear attack on a big city will fix that.

In general women don't like to drive automobiles like men do, get in more accidents per mile driven. Possibly Google's self-driving car will help women move out of the big city.