On Mar 19, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Yoshie:
>
>
> In case you have a false impression, Nawal El Saadawi is neither
> anti-religion nor anti-Islam. She in fact goes so far as to say that
> "A fair comparison [with other holy books] will help us to discover
> that the Quran or fundamental teachings of Islam are relatively
> progressive in relation to women and democracy." -- Yoshie
>
> [WS:] Yoshie, East Germany had the "Demokratische" in its name and the
> Soviet constitution read like the universal declaration of human
> rights, but
> the reality was that both were police states. As they say back in
> the old
> country, paper is very patient, it will accept anything.
>
> I suspect that your infatuation wit Islam serves no other purpose
> but a
> sophisticated version of trolling - made solely for the purpose of
> pissing
> off you audience. I find it difficult to believe that an otherwise
> intelligent person falls for this holy script tripe.
Either that, or it's the typical First World leftist's loss of hope for anything good happening in the North, so instead she's looking abroad for deliverance, and since not much is happening there either (outside Venezuela), she cheers for what little that is, which is politicized Islam.
Doug