(November 6, 2012 at 11:49 am)Minimalist Wrote: How do you separate islam from the culture over there?
Maybe you can't. Like I said I think the the two inevitably feed off each other. I'm just suggesting that cultural issues can spring from historical roots and not just religious ones and may still exist even if the underlying religion was taken away.
The problem occurs when religion is justifying or defending the cultural problem as it so often does - I'm not seeing that in this article to be honest although I'm not saying that it isn't there on the ground.
