Reply #109: Killing someone IS different from paying her a lower wage

[fberknm]

Although some in the posts on this thread want to pretend that there is little, if any, difference in the treatment of women by fundamental and conservative Christians and Muslims, this is a grossly inaccurate implication.

If we look at the history of female treatment and roles in more traditional Christian based societies, we would need to go back 1000 years before we get to the treatment that we see of females today in traditional Muslim societies. Think back 350 years and the time that the female was given the scarlet A for adultery. Today women are murdered in traditional Muslim societies for such behavior.

The problem with claiming a close link is that it implicates the writer and when more prominent progressives who have a larger voice offer such statements, conservatives are given ammunition in their fight to dismiss all progressive voices.

The more accurate statement is that the treatment of the oppressed runs on a scale and for most societies, the oppressed have moved forward over the past 1000 years. This is the case with women. However, in traditional Muslim societies, women are still in virtual slavery to the males in their families, be it a father, older brother, or husband.