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To: Elroy who wrote (227671)	4/18/2007 11:56:42 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 281500

"If it were primarily a cultural law then it would have been forbidden prior to 1979 when the religious crowd took control of the country. I don't know whether dancing in public was banned or not under the Shah, but I doubt it. " You are separating culture from the doctrines of values that help to define societies. Its an unnatural separation. "Do you seriously not agree that Muslims legislate their religion more than do the people of the other religions? Theocratic governments whether Islamic or based on some other religion base their legislation on the values of their religious doctrine although I am not aware of any that have been successful in creating a purely religious state. All cultures identify basic principles which are the foundation of legislative action and doctrine. "All of these so called "Islamic laws" stem from a natural cultural inclination of society, and not from a desire by the lawmakers to mandate their view of proper Islamic behaviour among the citizens?" There is an internal contradiction in your inferencial statement. What is natural cultural inclination of society? Most normal heterosexual men I've met would say their natural inclination is to wade into the herd of human females and have at it... singing yippee kieyay all the way. "Saudi women, culturally, don't want to drive?" hmmm... I'm having a tough time finding the no women drivers rule in the Quran. Maybe I'll go ask a Saudi Prince ... I'm sure they have a good explanation. I'm having a tough time finding the word Prince in the Quran too...