Fatwa me: A blow for reason!

In the Quaran (Koran to many) there is an edict that separates the roles of men and women and allows for a segregation of duties and rights which, in a far, far different world, 3,000 years ago made perfect sense and allowed for the veneration and protection of women at a time when neither attitude was the norm.

Islam's founder, Muhammad, so believed in this attitude that he educated his daughters at a time when education was both expensive and a purely male preserve. Why is all this so important, because, when a 3,000 year old edict is transliterated by inferiority-complex ridden, inadequate males in the 21st century it leads to a male-dominated society where women are repressed, treated like objects (the very thing the edict in Koran was trying to avoid) and killed or beaten because they disobey men (who must, by definition have some sort of invisible divine line to God, higher reason and perfect morality).

Normally I would take a reasoned, reasonable view here that would express my indignation as a Westerner who has been brought up believing that personal freedom is the holiest aspiration possible and individual rights are worth fighting for.

I would explain that I respect Islam (I do) and I respect Christianity (again, I do) and that I think the fundamental edicts of each hold about as much water now as a bucket made of sand. I would normally explain that the politics of religion and sex are power-games played by males eager to assert their dominance in society and get all the best positions and an easy life without competition by women and in all this I would, quite correctly, focus on the role played by education and personal understanding in actually progressing the world, which may explain perhaps why the West thought about the Atom 3,000 years ago (Democritus, should anyone wish to check) and went on to build nuclear power stations, while Islam (which had managed to invent the zero, make progress in agriculture, medicine and architecture and tile making well in advance of the West) has since descended in a world dominated by a goat-culture, where they still dress in the same clothes they wore back in the Crusades (a little more threadbare I think), spout the same old bullshit (I will explain my choice of language in a minute) and expect the rest of us to give them the personal freedom and respect they do not give each other.

Fuck that for a lark!

Where does it say that reason will triumph over ignorance with reasoned arguments? Taken to a national scale I don't advocate we Nuke the fuckers back to their amoebal stage but enough is fucking enough. Political correctness be damned someone must make a stand, somewhere, sometime.

I mean look at this: Pakistan is about to descend into the Taliban mentality (and in case anyone is wondering I have personally never forgotten the fuckers for dynamiting the statues of Buddha in Afghanistan).

It's like 'we are right because we say so or we Fatwa you'. Well boys and girls, let's put this pudding to the test. Islam, is a great intellectual religion. The majority of its followers are people I feel humbled to meet because of the strength of their faith and the general goodness of their nature.

To the dickless, bearded wonders railing against women, trying to uphold the kind of rigid morality we all know gives men a cart blanche to screw around and create a harem mentality everywhere, I say "Fatwa me!".

In case you are interested, I can talk about Islam, Buddhism and Christianity in two languages and have spent the last 35 years studying martial arts at a deep-adept level, so little, two-bit sticks ain't really gonna cut the mustard here (fair play warning in effect beardies!).

For these people I have about as much respect as I would reserve for coelacanth (probably less because at least that ancient organism had the decency to evolve and die). I say let's stop being so patient and understanding and let's apply our own big stick to their pathetic impotent widgets (and if the latter statement is not true what gives with the beards, robes, uneducated, ill-thought rumblings, head coverings and bullshit ideology?) and let's see just how far they get then!