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Good point.
No women would believe it was ordered by God that she sit at a table separate from her husband, she would simply believe that her husband was conferred with the authority to create such a demarcation.
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Now that's a hell of a claim, and obviously a wrong one. How do you know that? Millions of women follow these rules, but none of them actually believe them?
One compelling defense of wearing the burqa comes from Muslim women who actually wear the thing. "I don't wear it because I am forced, I wear it because I believe this is what God wants me to do". Are they lying? The same justification would certainly apply to the dining arrangements as well. "I don't eat here because I'm forced, I do it because this is how God wants me to eat dinner".
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I believe the argument you have invoked is that of cultural relativism, the notion that we cannot judge aspects of a culture on the basis that we cannot, as an outsider, understand the purpose or necessity of such specific traditions or customs.
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Wrong again. I can judge this aspect of their culture. I think it's crazy,and they should stop doing it. That doesn't give me any right to say "nah, you can't do that" to a man and woman who, for whatever reason, want to eat dinner in different rooms.