ahh..the good ole days..

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

ie India?

thinking of pakistan in this instance, altho there are plenty of other countries who think women are on par with animals, or just another piece of property. and of course some areas of india still engage in pitching the widow on the funeral pyre of the dead husband, along with all his other 'goods'. pakistan announced a couple of days ago that an area of pakistan will be under islamic law-the newspaper called it a 'particularly harsh' version of islamic law-with women being pretty much stuck at home, girls unable to even go to school. they got tired of fighting militants in the area, so i guess the govt there feels this is the solution to the violence. no doubt it will only embolden those militants to try the same thing elsewhere in pakistan...if they play their cards just right, it will be islam as the law of the land country-wide.
and of course our enlightened ally, saudi arabia, still requires women to have a close male relative escort them any time they leave home-and they're not allowed to drive cars either. a cleric said a woman alone was on par with putting an open can of cat food out in the alley-that one would expect the cats in the neighborhood to immediately come and devour the food-it's their nature to act in that way. so, in his thinking, men can't help themselves either-if a woman there is raped, she's punished along with her attacker, as she must have been 'asking' for it. a man, like a cat, can't help his base nature.
but i digress....