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This was a nice article, and it is my wish that all people in this world could be free as I am. I studied Islam several years ago, just to see why anyone in this world in the year of 2003 would believe in such an oppressive thing as Islam. Islam got it's toe hold in the world during the Dark Ages, and it has managed to keep Muslims punishing other Muslims to perpetuate Islam. Many people around the world want to leave Islam, but they live under threat of death, torture, or other cruelty, and it would seem that just anyone would know that this is evil, and not want to be a part of this. When I see Muslims coming to this country hoping to push such an evil on us, I just shudder.
God forbid!

Female oppression is not Islamic that I know. As Socrates beat his students to educate them, Islam teaches to educate women along the same lines (LOL!).. It's all in the interpretation.

Women and veils have their origins in ancient Sumeria......

The priestesses at the temples of the fertility god would have sex with worshippers. They wore a veil to not be recognized.

When they got pregnant, the infant was killed, so as not to have "god's kid" running around.........

Some centuries later, some monarch decreed that all women who have sex should wear veils. Thus the veiled married women of the area....

Also consider another reasson for the oppression of women.. Dominance of the sexes goes through very slow cycles. The dominant sex very early on was the female. Thus: mother earth.. We still have her. Guys in some areas of the middle east will not urinate standing up, but they will do it kneeling.. Out of some sort of respect for a long gone diety.. Mother earth.

Once men figured out their part in conception, however, things slowly started changing. The world over thousands of years became mostly a man's world - you can see this through the disappearance of female dieties all together, with the possible exception of Mary, who is not considered a diety, but something like the "wife" of God (take this with a grain of salt), in whose symbol the remnants of female dominance over men barely hangs on by its white knuckled hands..

It will be a long time before our image of God will be a female once again (is God a black woman?).. As I said, this is one cycle that moves extremely slow compared to other things like fashion, or what body type is considered sexy, etc.