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Hey Gals, Check This Out - More Fun With the Pew Study and Islamic Clerics: "The Prophet Approved Beatings" [Video]

According to the Pew report:

Fully 69% of Muslim Americans say that the Islamic religion treats men and women equally well. Only about a quarter of Muslims (23%) believe that Islam treats men better than women. Notably, Muslim women are about as likely as men to say that Islam treats members of both sexes equally well... among Muslims who say religion is very important - 72% of all U.S. Muslims - an overwhelming majority (80%) says that Islam treats men and women equally well.

The more religious an American Muslim is - that is, the more likely they are to self-identify with religious rather than secular versions of Islam - the more they insist that Islam treats men and women equally. Ummm...

But you can't break teeth. He's very clear about that. No breaking teeth during the wife beatings. We kind of think he's being genuine here, in his own pathological, woman hating way - be seems genuinely upset about the prevalence of women who get their heads and legs cracked apart by their husbands in the name of Islam. Which brings us to this little logic puzzle:

(1) When people point out that Islamic law insists upon the superiority of men over women - that women are ordered by Muhammad himself to bow before their husbands - apologists talk about Islamic practice.
(2) When people point out that Islamic practice evinces surreal levels of sexism - that vicious beatings to the point of broken bones are the mere physical manifestation of pathological hatred for women - apologists talk about how that's a perversion of Islamic law.

Ummm... It appears to us that neither is particularly kind to women. An overwhelming majority of American Muslims insist that the Muslim view on men and women is actually egalitarian and equal. Which kind of begs the question: how are we going to convince the Muslim world to stop its pathological abuse of women if even the most Western, integrated Muslims in the world don't admit there's a problem?

References:
* Saudi Doctor Explains Wife Beating & Subservience in Islam [lookhearsee / YouTube]

Previously:
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - You're Destroying Indonesia With Your Skimpy Clothing and Your Premarital Sex
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - Theo van Gogh's Submission (Full) [Video]
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - Islamism in the Netherlands

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