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Originally Posted by longsuffering
Hey Mr. Broadbrush. It hasn't been established whether women and families are REQUIRED to sit in the family section or if it is offered as an option.
More importantly, you're busy generalizing what may or may not be happening at this one restaurant by saying it is a tenet of Islam that women eat separately from men. That simply is not true and I suspect you know it. IMO you're just another rascist, like HOZ, but unlike HOZ, you hide behind some pseudo-intellectual bullcrap to make it sound like an academic argument.
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1. I did not suggest that women or children are required by Islam to sit in another section. I did suggest, however, that Islam has produced gender demarcations like all other Western religions that have been oppressive and misogynistic.
2. You suggest I am racist. Firstly, this has absolutely nothing to do with race. I did not connect race with oppressive or misogynistic practices. If you didn't notice, I identified all three Western religions as being accountable for oppressive practices and customs. Does that then make me misanthropic? Do I expound a universal hatred towards all men, all human beings? You should also be careful how you argue, since you do realize that you are citing racism in the protection of such misogynistic practices: does that then make you misogynistic? How could I possibly know?
3. This is a cultural issue, not of race. This statement in itself is troublesome however, as it presumes cultural hegemony. If you picked up on that, disregard it, as I am not making hegemonic assertions.
In light of these three considerations, I would appreciate you explained yourself more clearly rather than attacking my more or less anonymous character via ad hominem.