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In reply to the discussion: This Is What Saudi Arabia's First PSA For Violence Against Women Looks Like [View all]Bonobo
(29,257 posts)It isn't just Islam. Religion is a very powerful psychological tool and even those who are victimized by their religion will continue to defend it until they realize that it is inseparable from the effects that it is employed in order to establish.
An orthodox Jewish woman who must wear a wig, is not allowed to even shake hands with a man and must cover up to avoid tempting men is in a similar situation. And she, having grown up in that strong, tight community is quite likely to defend it to the end against critics from the outside. That is how insular in-group mechanics work.
Will I see you defend that kind of restrictive practice in the same way I see you defend the restrictions in some Islamic cultures?
In India, until relatively recently, woman would be burned besides their husbands at their funeral pyres. When Britain (those colonialists) took over, they stamped out that practice. Would you have defended it claiming that Britain was treating the women of India as infantiles unable to decide their own fate?