(March 9, 2015 at 12:40 am)AtlasS2 Wrote: I couldn't see a direct link to islam. Instead it was mainly an "honor" thing.
Arguments like this are always tedious, claiming Islam has nothing to do with a certain behavior because it isn't specifically prescribed in the Quran. I say Quran because it is also typical with this argument to erroneously claim that the hadiths and Sharia are somehow not Islamic. This is done because there is no denying the misogynistic nature of the hadiths and Sharia.
Islam is so intertwined in all facets of life in most predominantly Muslim nations that the distinction between religion and culture is hardly discernable. The fact that Islam is incapable of deterring this type of behavior is enough to indict Islam for complicity.
People trying to save Islam from it's wretched treatment of women always invoke Turkey as an argument and fail to consider that Turkey is as close as one gets to a separation of church and state in the Muslim world. Pointing to a society that intentionally keeps Islam at arm's length could hardly be a vote of confidence for Islam.
