Perhaps you should ask yourself why is it prevalent in Islamic groups and countries Abu.  
Then why does not being a muslim prevent these acts if they are considered wrong in Islam.
What part of the Koran or Islamic teaching or culture enables/allows this behaviour.
is it part of Sharia?
Does the seemingly natural mysogyny of islam promote it.
What is "awrah" and are women the equal of men in Islam?
If it is not sanctioned by Islam why aren't the perpetrators killed?

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Isslam is one of the largest most widespread religions, so the fact it exists in countries Muslims live in, isn't so surprising. Also the fact many Muslim-majority countries have descended into heavy tribalism over the last century or two probably contributes somewhat as well. Anyway I still don't think it's quite as prevalent as you'd like to believe.

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Why does it not prevent drugs? or alcohol? or people not covering their awrah? or people taking interest loans? Quite obviously because Islam is no longer the ruling system in those countries anymore, it has no authority to prevent such things.

Why does Communism not prevent Russia from falling prey to Capitalist pressures today? Because Communism is no longer the ruling system there, and therefore has no power to prevent or implement anything. Woulda thought that one would be logical?

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No, and no... just missed about 20 posts of this thread did you?

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Awrah is the Arabic word for nakedness.

Women are not the equal of men, and neither are men the equal of women. They simply are not the same, and this is a biological fact you cannot escape.

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All Muslim countries are ruled by tyrannical little Western puppets who implement what they want, not what Islam wants. When Islam rules there again, then you're quite welcome to post such arguments, until such a day, such arguments are nothing but folly.

abu_rashid wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2009 at 10:19pm:



You sound positively post-feminist - until we remember that what you can't bring yourself to saying is that in Islam women are simply half men. Yet you are still terrified of them.

Muslims kill their daughters not because they care for them but because they care more about what the neighbours think. And that matters because they have always been tribal and so marriage is, as always, a matter of alliance, clan loyalty and business. They kill not their daughter but their 'spoiled' asset to prove that they strong and worthy of continued respect and inclusion in the clan.