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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (18942)3/11/2003 8:55:21 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (2) of 25898
 
What does that have to do with Taiwan???

why you tolerate such cruelty to women in Iraq and other Islamic countries...

I don't.

And let me tell you something, Mr North America - I have lived in some of those Islamic countries. As a woman. And your assumption that I am doing nothing at present to help improve the lives of the women in Islamic countries is as completely wrong as your assertion that Monte-Carlo is an "overcrowded slum".

First of all, there is much less "cruelty" than you are led to believe. It is a different system, and some practices are quite unacceptable to me. (Obviously, if I am not living there any longer, it means I prefer the European way of life.)

However, our preference of a different lifestyle is not a justification to forcibly change theirs, killing the same civilian women in thousands in the process.

Secondly, Iraq is actually one of the BETTER places for a woman, not the worst. You may have noticed that women in Iraq are not covered up from head to toe, and they enjoy freedoms unheard of by their sisters in Saudi Arabia and some other US allies.

most incredible!!!

The only "incredible" aspect of this exchange is that a North American couch potato who has been wrong on every single issue he tried to confront me with (incl. calling Monte-Carlo a "slum"), who was recently reduced to slander ("zonder is a liar") in a pathetic attempt to discredit yours truly, dares question my sympathy to women I have lived with side to side for years in a part of the world he has never been in. Unreal.
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