Males abusing females is not a respector of cultures (whatever that might be). It occurs in all. In some the males feel they have some cultural right to do so but, almost always, that cultural right is a contested right. Males generally say something like you are saying, it's our culture, leave us alone; but others within the same stipulated culture will often say, you are reading the cultural texts wrong.
The cancer is not something called Muslim culture, it's whatever precepts these males use to justify their actions and how widely they are shared. It's, in short, generally power as much if not more than it is belief patterns.
We clearly disagree about the source of the problem. You are working, and I'm going to be blunt, with two large categories here that get in the way of your thinking--one is the "Arabs" and the other is "Muslims." You need to take a look at someone like Edward Said to see that these terms are merely placeholders for different histories, different cultural themes, different geopolitical locations, etc. |
