Reply #46: Islamic values - as determined by whom? [View All]

[mobuto]

A majority of the population seems to subscribe to Islamist radicals' conception of "Islamic values" - values that include the subjugation of women and the execution of homosexuals.

there is nothing incompatable between Islamic values and representitive democracy

No there isn't. But there is a direct incompatibility between Islamist fundamentalism and the righst of women and minorities to live freely. Who determines what these values are? The Shia majority? Can the determine than Sunni values are not Islamic? Can they oppress, massacre and disenfranchise 30% of the population?

For your information, Women were first given the right to vote as equals in medina 1400 years before their enlightened american counterparts

And yet today, women in Medina are not allowed to be in the presence of a man who is not a family member and nobody is allowed to vote. This is progress? You should know well what Islamist reality is like. And its far closer to life under the Taliban than it would be to Susan B. Anthony.