(December 28, 2011 at 12:30 pm)Ziploc Surprise Wrote: I had a Musllum friend of mine in High School. She believed in the bullshit that if she obeyed the religious law then she would be protected. She believed that women don't need to fight for their rights, they just need to obey the religious law. Obedience brings protection.
I would also be willing to bet that the women are constantly told that the ones who are victims of such atrocities didn't obey the religious law. I'm sure too many of them don't actually find out this is bullshit until they are victims themselves.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
