Al Qaida murdered 8 journalists in Paris back in 2015 because of a cartoon about Mohamed. A reporter asked several people how they felt about it. Several Muslims said that they approved because "that's what you get when you insult our prophet. "

@Aunt Messy. A woman choosing to wear a hijab out of a sign of her faith in her religion is no different from a Catholic girl wearing a cross or a Jewish man wearing a yamaka. It's not oppressive just because it's tied to religion. Don't criticize someone's faith in their religion without knowing anything about it.

I didn't mean all women and I'm happy that you're happy wearing your Hijab I just wanted to point out the hypocrisy and ignorance of some women/feminists and SJWs.

No, they really don't. Why would any sane person let someone turn them into property. The hijab is nothing more than the mark of slavery.

Doesn't Islam have it's level of followers? I mean, Christianity ranges from non-denominational liberal Christianity to the non-smoker sober-as-a-judge Jehovah's Witness. So can't Islam have a range too? I mean..not all Muslims follow Sharia Law.

"Many women choose to wear a hijab" That depends on what country you live in.

OK, so you chose. But when you are raised from childhood being told "This is the way a good Muslim girl behaves", how much of a choice is it? You know it's expected of you, you respect your parents, so where is a truly free decision? I have no problems with women in hijab, it's the full face covering burkas that radicals try to push on the West. No, you can't take your drivers license or passport photo with your face covered. Yet women (or their islamic families) insist it's their "right".

You need to read the book 'The Satanic verses'; you may have a change of heart about the reality of the Islamic faith. Brainwashing people into doing something doesn't make it okay, regardless of being a tenet of their religion or otherwise; imagine being so delusional that you think being oppressed is A-OK, because that's what your religion demands. All religion is poison, wake up and think for yourself, question your religion- if your religion allows it ( most don't- funny how that works.. ).

And that’s what s****y people do with most any religion. It’s a tool to control people at its heart. If you’re happy, so be it, but there’re endless examples of how religion has been used to oppress, control, abuse, persecute, and even excise murder. Free will is something religions claim people have while doing everything to block it. You think you have chosen it of your own free will, rather than having been acculturated from day one as to what is “normal”... Not as much a choice as you think.

Shatha, thank you for your clarity and your explanation. Blanket statements are wrong no matter the angle, and the actions of a few should never define an entire culture. Abuse is everywhere, in every culture, but so is love. I'm so very glad you have love. Again, thank you for sharing.

@Carol I’m not to sure I understand your point. I don’t know that it was intentional or not but it kind of sounded you were hating on Christians? I may be saying the point you were going for but not every person follows their religion to the bone. As a Christian I am not into white supremacy or killing Native Americans. Not all religious people blindly follow their religion.

Holding up terrorists and terrorist sympathizers as representatives of Islam is like looking to the KKK to be the emblem bearers of Christianity.

@A Water Bottle. Gee..I hope I'm not hating on Christians because I am one...lol. No. I'm just pointing out to some of the people that say Islam is a violent religion that it's no more violent than Christianity. There are periods of growth in all religions and there are people in every religion that take it too far sometimes. You don't have to be ok with another person's religion, but don't call it one thing or another without knowing anything about it.

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire

@Carol I misunderstood your post. Thanks for the clarification about that :)

You're delusional

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@WilvanderHeijden. And Christians never flipped out when a singer or actor compared themselves to Jesus or God? Remember what happened to the Beatles when they said they were more popular than Jesus. Christians also used their Bible as justification to murder hundreds of thousands of Native Americans. And every KKK member out there is a Christian that thinks the world would be better off white..even going to extreme murderous lengths sometimes to protect their beliefs. Every religion is going to have their zealots that flip out. And I'm sure the reports of those Muslims that supported the deaths of the journalists were the ones that reporter found that agreed with it out of the hundreds that opposed it.

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Islam is a hateful ideology that persecutes everyone.

@Jackie. That 10% your teacher was talking about is the same reason we have laws....

Your teacher was 100% right.