Minarets in Switzerland

[OakLeaf]

Honor killings are very common in the USA, they just don't call them by that name.

Women in the USA who wear less clothes than local standards of modesty dictate, are harrassed, and if they are raped there's rarely a prosecution or conviction. It's true that majority standards in the USA don't require the hair to be covered, but what is required to be covered is merely a technical detail. What happens to a woman if she doesn't, is not.

Some churches ring Angelus bells several times a day; others broadcast music before services and during holy seasons; a few have carrillons.

If you disregard the specific forms of a particular religion and look only at the substance, it's plain that fundamentalism is fundamentalism and misogyny is misogyny, and they really don't have anything to do with whatever Scripture they're using for cover.

[papaver]

Honor killings are very common in the USA, they just don't call them by that name. Well that didn't excisted here.

Women in the USA who wear less clothes than local standards of modesty dictate, are harrassed, and if they are raped there's rarely a prosecution or conviction. That is very uncommon here, people are used to see nudity.

It's true that majority standards in the USA don't require the hair to be covered, but what is required to be covered is merely a technical detail. What happens to a woman if she doesn't, is not.

Some churches ring Angelus bells several times a day; others broadcast music before services and during holy seasons; a few have carrillons.
Here it's not allowed anymore... only on very special occasions.

If you disregard the specific forms of a particular religion and look only at the substance, it's plain that fundamentalism is fundamentalism and misogyny is misogyny, and they really don't have anything to do with whatever Scripture they're using for cover.

Like I said, if there would have been mutual respect there would not have been this kind of debate. Belgium is a very liberal country where church and state are strictly divided. And we would like to keep it that way. In the seventies there were hardly any muslims here, now they represent about 10% of the population. It's going really really fast for us...