Food for thought
Just ran across this post on the "oppression" of Muslim women from Boing Boing as part of their coverage of 30 mosques in thirty days. For the most part, I've been skimming over the articles without paying too much attention until today. I'd recently read an article from Stuff White People Do investigating the definition of "white culture".
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It's a progressive muslimah website- has much to say on precisely this matter.
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Those people don't think Muslim women are oppressed because of their clothing and culture but because they're Muslim at all. Some of them said this.
I think many of the commenters are simply Atheists to the point that they want to force the rest of the world to be as "free" as they are, whether they like it or not.
Also, they fail to differentiate between ethnic traditions and religious ones. Someone in the comments brought up FGM, which is an ethnic tradition in parts of Africa that has nothing to do with Islam. They don't understand how things change culturally in America. I used to listen to the Somali girls at work who have been raised here put the Somali guys in their place. They're not oppressed and powerless.
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I think people get too easily caught up on the superficial and fail to delve deeper than that. I'm not sure how American's keep giving lip service to the idea of values when we can't respect the values of others.
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