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Sal Paradise

On 8/3/2015 3:43 PM, wrote:
> 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?
>
>
Yes but she ruined the blue dress, if not the devil doing so.