by Afghan women which leaves only a square net open for the eyes. The Prophet was an innovator who gave women legal status, property and inheritance rights. He was a man whose closest confidantes were women, whose first convert was his wife, Khadija, an independent businesswoman. The canonical punishments of beheading and flogging as practiced in Saudi Arabia are also tribal, relics of the pre-Islamic past when nomadic tribesmen maintained order by lopping off the hands of thieves and the heads of murderers.So what I am emphatically trying to get across is even though the Taliban movement is gaining strength in the United States this is not a true reflection of the Islamic religion. Just as skinheads, the KKK and the Neo-Nazi occasionally make the evening news for their views I do not consider their views the views of all Anglo-Saxon Americans I come in contact with. And I would never consider generalizing an entire religion because of the actions of a select few. In Afghanistan, Taliban followers are convinced that women should be kept inside the house, quiet, and away from any position of responsibility. If we look at the progress women have made today we could never conceive the type of regression as detailed by the Talibans'. The type of submissive women suggested in your article equates to nothing more than domestic violence, which is as common in America as it is in Afgahnistan, so can we blame Christianity, Judaism, or Buddhism for these acts of violence towards women. Sure the Talibanns' take their beliefs to the extreme but as I mentioned before they are in no way connected to the true Islamic faith. I feel that if weed out the negative aspects attributed to any religion and focus on the positive each person would realize the end result is a closer relationship with God. If I were to go through time and bring about the negative history of Christianity what purpose would it serve? I feel that focusing our attentions...
