Re: Nawal El Saadawi: Women, Islam, and Democratization
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