Reply #79: The OP and the replies to the OP seem to contrast...

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What I gathered from the replies is "Men bad. Women good." Simplistic? Yes.

What I gathered from the OP was that militant males will kill to maintain their way of life. The militant males being radical islamists and members of the Taliban. That is, they will kill to ensure that honor killings and arranged marriages remain the status quo, yet that type of behavior is frowned on in Western culture. Which it rightfully should be.

I also cannot understand the leap (or bridge) to what radical islam condones and how Christianity is compared to it. That is, I don't recall any honor killings taking place among Christian men. I also don't know any Christian women who cannot vote, drive or go to school. I agree that some women are slighted as far as equal pay goes, but to compare "western world oppression" to the oppression that is practiced by radical Islam and the Taliban is utterly ridiculous.