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Originally posted by Reeka:
Yeah, I understand what you are saying, but it still is treating the woman as a child. I mean the man doesn't have to get her permission to get a divorce. I totally respect Moslems rights to hold to their beliefs, but I do have a problem when those beliefs are carried over into the government.
This just reafirms what I think we all know---women are not created equally in predominately Islamic countries.
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To be perfectly honest, I can't think of any country off the top of my head where religion isn't carried over to government.
People may harp on about separation of Church and state, but as much as I believe in that ideal, it currently isn't true.
Britain obviously used to be Catholic, then there was the reformation, but it's roots where as a Christian state, hence the majority of laws which exist nowadays have at least some of Christianity's core ethics bearing on them, from when they were first made.
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