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Default 11-16-2007, 04:25 PM

It's because under Islamic law a rape victim must provide four witnesses to verify her story that the sex was not consensual.

Thing is women aren't allowed to drive cars there either....

We had a funny discussion in my Arabic class the other day when a student asked my teacher what the word for "girlfriend" was in Arabic. Our teacher had trouble explaining that the concept of dating doesn't exist in Arabic countries because unwed men and women can be beaten if they are found in each others company.


Then there's also the jizya, a tax that non-Muslims have to pay...and the belief that women and non-Muslims only count as half a person.

Too bad this is their religion and culture, sometimes being ethnocentric and intolerant of some religions sounds like a pretty good idea.
  
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