The TRUTH hurts !

Good Morning RedyellowBlack Dog :)) After I read the article, backward and ignorant, is not what came to my mind. Dangerous and unpredictable is what jumps to my fore brain. This is the root of organized religion. To keep its followers uneducated, ignorant and dependent, in that way people do not think for themselves and much easier to control and lead. This man is a hero in one sense of the word, all he wanted to do was shed light into a shamefully guarded norm of the Islamic people. I feel bad for his wife and children, I can not imagine what it is like to live with that kind of fear.

Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed to have written a book like this & not known what would happen & use a pen name for protection. He's probably goting to have to be looking over his shoulder for a long time less some islamic nutcase fanatic manage to pull off the sentence.

..also to determine the attitude of Islam toward women I'd research how the women are actually treated..

It sounds a lot like how the Catholic church used to behave in the Middle Ages when people translated the Bible from Latin so that ordinary people could understand it. Or how they reacted when Galileo revealed the scientific truth that the Earth went round the Sun and not vice versa. The Church feared informed debate because they thought it was a threat to their authority. And they thought that a threat to their authority was blasphemy because they were God's representatives on Earth. Islam is just in the same state that Christianity was in then. As the population of Muslims grows, it becomes more likely that people within the faith will start questioning and reforming it, as has happened with Christianity and Judaism. It could be another hundred years or so before mainstream Islam joins the modern world and of course there will always be a fundamentalist element, but we have to hope that their religion will evolve as other religions have.

These people are in denial about their false religion and will do whatever it takes to make sure no one exposes their religion for the lie that it is. They say the truth will set you free... in this case the truth will destroy a religion if it is allowed to be told. That is why anyone who tries to speak the truth is accused of blasphemy and either imprisoned or executed or both. the Islamic leaders depend on the truth not being told in order to keep themselves in power... otherwise they would not have the terrorists groups at their disposal to do their bidding and fight their "Holy Wars" against everyone who doesn't believe the way they do.

That is ridiculous. That poor man and his family having to live in hiding over a book that he obviously researched pretty thoroughly? So sad! Granted, I suppose that since he is from an Islamic area, he must have had some idea that the book would not be received well. That does not excuse this behavior, don't get me wrong. It is such a sad mess...

to call it backward and ignorent is to commit herrasy, to comment on scripture is to make an indipendent judgement, this is not allowed under islamic law. How silly to make political decisions in light of religious myth

There is no question about the fact that Islam is two hundred years backward. As long as those countries are governed by religion instead of a democratic government... things will remain the same. One must not forget that our women were not treated any better by the Christian religion 200 years ago. It was our democratic governments which did put pressure on the church to back off women and give them their freedom and equality. While the church has lost its power today... if it could... it would like nothing better than put women back in chains and have them serve their husband. Which is why the church has lost so many of its people.

I'm just wondering what is being hated by the Muslims in this case? Do they hate "the truth"? Yeah...sometimes, a truth hurts, when someone have rejections in his/her heart about it. That's what I feel too, when I am with my egoism.

Interesting that he was convicted to jail for six months in Iraq and not some other country, there's the freedom we brought them in action. I have to say that I believe the Islamic attitude has changed, no one is openly calling for his life (thou maybe off camera) like they did with Salman Rushdie, although the change has taken over two decades. But than again how long did it take for afirmative action and equal rights to make changes in our own country and if some had there way it would surely go back to the "good old days" of alot of church burnings in black neighborhoods. I read a headline that said "Mariwan Halabjaee, seeks international protection!" I wonder if some of it shouldnt be "Mariwan Halabjaee, seeks international fame and publicity". I doubt this will hurt his career in fact I think he will probly become a very wealthy man. Its not very hard to determine the attitude in the united states against women either: http://www.aidv-usa.com/Statistics.htm In America, 85-95% of all domestic violence victims are female. Over 500,00 women are stalked by an intimate partner each year. 5.3 million women are abused each year. 1,232 women are killed each year by an intimate partner. Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women. (American Institute on Domestic Violence Statistics.) Those are some pretty painful truths that havent been dealt with in our own back yard.

The world knows how the Islamic women are treated, but are unwilling to do anything about it. Even now that we are in Afganistan and Iraq and have made promises to the women in both places that they will no longer be beaten and killed for just being women they are still being beaten and killed for just being women. I had a small taste of the Hell that they live in every day of their lives. It is a horror. Whatever that man wrote could not describe what the women actually feel because he was only seeing it from a man's point of view. He could never live it. He could never feel it. I think every Muslim man should have to wear the Burka for one month non stop. And have his body beaten at street corners if he accidentally lifted his head and made eye contact with someone, or looked in a shop window too long as if it were a mirror, or rode in the front seat of a car, or had nail polish on, or eye makeup on. All of these are crimes punishable of beatings by any man who witnesses them. These men are sick. They are so insecure that they must destroy every vestige of another human beings self esteem in order to feel like a man. And since the Quaran is an empowering book, and Islam is an empowering religion, this becomes possible. The only problem is most of them only have the women to become powerful over. Shalom~Adoniah

though i really dont kown the islamic,i still compassion them