yeah, there's similar shit in the bible.
But, yet again, we have the armchair theology experts googling a couple phrases from the koran, and posting it as a laughable demonstration of their theological expertise.
Its like when an armchair scientist like superfreak tries to "draw a straight line" between two solitary data points, to prove he knows what he's talking about on global warming.
It's cherry picking. And its what self proclaimed armchair experts do, when trying to demonstrate knowledge of a subject they have absolutly no training or education in. Google makes everyone an armchair expert.
All the old holy books have crazy passages in them, that are open to historical interpretation and context. The bible allows a lot of crazy shit, like killing your children, owning slaves, sexual depravity, slaughter, etc.
The only thing that interests me, is what actual experts say: that the tradition of islam was centuries ahead of western civlization in terms of the status of women's rights with respect to property, marriage, and inheritance. And the spread of islam across the arabian pennisula, was a vast improvement for women over the horrid pagan traditions that existed pre-islam. And as far as the experts I've been reading, the Koran has many explicit passages conferring equality on women. Making them explicity equal to men. I have no idea if the bible has similar passages.
Anyway, islamic feminists and modern reformers are waged in this battle against the conservative, cultural idiots like the taliban and wahhabists. And it does the reformers and feminsts no good if their entire religion is stereotyped by western wingnuts.
