A pox on all their houses, radical Judaism and radical Islam, wherever they exist in the world. I certainly wish they could all resolve their differences at least to the point of not killing each other and themselves. It doesn't, of course, much matter what we think of who is right and who is wrong, and however it ends, they will find a way to blame it all on the immodesty of women anyway. I am fed up with nonsense like this, and don't care to think of such countries as 'friendly nations' until such time as they can get a grip on the madmen they call religious, and stop treating them as above the law or holding them in reverence when they make such stupid, misogynist decisions, statements, acts.
These first lot hold in awe a politically connected rabbi who has famously said
"Walking between two women is like walking between two camels, or two donkeys." - B
"...In Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where the rule of law sometimes takes a back seat to the rule of God, zealots are on a campaign to stamp out behavior they consider unchaste. They hurl stones at women for such "sins" as wearing a red blouse, and attack stores selling devices that can access the Internet.
In recent weeks, self-styled "modesty patrols" have been accused of breaking into the apartment of a Jerusalem woman and beating her for allegedly consorting with men...."
http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/2008/10/04/D93JN84O0_ml_israel_enforcing_modesty/index.html
And this lot follow men like this, who will only be happy when all women are invisible prisoners in the households of men. - B
"A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.
The question of how much of her face a woman should cover is a controversial topic in many Muslim societies.
The niqab is more common in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, but women in much of the Muslim Middle East wear a headscarf which covers only their hair.
Sheikh Habadan, an ultra-conservative cleric who is said to have wide influence among religious Saudis, was answering questions on the Muslim satellite channel al-Majd."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7651231.stm
