hershel_layton said:
The problem with middle easterners is the 10-20% horrible people who choose to live in the 7th century. I assure you that most arab's are against this abominable action(along with many others). unfortunately, a small percentage of the population and the laws allows such primitive actions to stay legal.
Really sucks, because I think people stereotype arab's as sheep who all hold the same beliefs. It's always the crazy ones who cause problems for us. |
I'm aware that a plurality or hopefully, like you said, even a big majority of the citizens of arabic/middle eastern countries are against treating women/any human as "lesser", but in several countries unfortunately the law has been determined by those "crazy ones" and the sane people have yet to gain enough power to overturn that - I'd really like to see that in the (preferably not too distant) future.
It doesn't help the negative image that for example the state of Saudi Arabia afaik is actively funding the spread of a very orthodox (and frankly, in my opinion crazy) interpretation of Islam around the world.
