On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 1:42:18 PM UTC-7, Sal Paradise wrote:
> On 8/4/2015 6:29 AM, wrote:
> > On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 12:53:38 PM UTC-7, Sal Paradise wrote:
> >> On 7/24/2015 5:00 PM, Christopher Helms wrote:
> >> Fourteen hundred years ago Islam gave women rights; rights that could
> >> not have been imagined by European counterparts. Bold words! Words
> >> that have been spoken repeatedly, especially in the last two or three
> >> decades by Muslim converts, and Islamic writers, academics and educators
> >> across the globe. Women's rights, responsibilities, and choices have
> >> been the subject of books, articles, essays, and lectures. Sadly
> >> however, convincing the world that Muslim women are not oppressed by
> >> Islam is a message that is just not getting through. Media headlines
> >> scream oppression and the words Muslim, women, and oppression seem to
> >> have become inextricably linked.
> >>
> >> No matter what Muslim women do or say to try to convince the world
> >> otherwise, words like hijab, burka, polygamy, and Sharia seem to do
> >> little but convince people that Islam oppresses women. Even educated,
> >> articulate women fulfilling the modest conditions of hijab can do little
> >> to dispel the myths. Women who conduct themselves with decorum and
> >> grace and function effortlessly in the modern world have their
> >> achievements and successes celebrated. However, if a woman wears a
> >> scarf, covers her hair or puts her religion above worldly pursuits she
> >> is immediately labelled oppressed. One wonders if this is the case for
> >> women of other religious persuasions.
> >
> > I guess Chris Helms is not familiar with the Koran. :-O
>
> Running for the White House, Jeb Bush portrays himself as a man who has
> "worked his tail off" to get ahead in life.

Didn't Monica Lewinsky work her tail off to get some head in life?





But in his business
> dealings--which involved such diverse fields as real estate, credit card
> services, and water pumps--the candidate seemed to benefit from his
> father's political power and worked with people who turned out to be
> criminals, the Washington Post reports. Bush's business outlook in his
> early years was "a little bit of damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead,"
> says a professor who wrote about him. "His judgment on who to associate
> with is lacking." Unlike his father and brother George, who each made
> fortunes as young men, Jeb jumped from one business venture to another,
> at times with unsavory characters.