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No, they want to treat women as chattel, and they use religion as the most convenient (and convincing) excuse.

The bigotry comes first, then the justification for it.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 20th, 2006 at 05:38:28 AM EST
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Absolutely. Reza aslan makes that point very strongly in the book "No God but God"

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jun 20th, 2006 at 06:00:57 AM EST
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