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Can we *agree to disagree* on all of the following, and leave it at that?

- women's equality means equal legal rights in divorce, marital property, inheritance, value of testimony (western posters on DCUM) vs. unequal legal rights balanced by different responsibilities for men and women (OP)
- Islam in the U.S. is growing faster by conversion than by immigration (this is OP's claim; western posters will use Pew numbers showing conversion rates are 1/4 of immigration rates until OP brings her own sources)
- women war captives are freed on pregnancy (OP) vs. on the death of the slave master (non-Muslim PP and OP's BBC link)
- consultation = voting rights (Muslim OP and Muslim 2:29 think this is the case. Non-muslims disagree that consultation is the same as voting rights, and bringing in the ancient Greeks doesn't change this disagreement)
- consultation didn't exist before Islam so this was something "new"
- there was massive fornication, resulting in illegitimate children, before Islam (OP said this)
- the purity oath was definitely administered to men (Muslim OP and Muslim PP claim this, non-Muslims have asked for proof)
- the purity oath was looking backwards (OP argues that women were arriving with many illegitimate children of uncertain paternity and this is why men were not asked to take the purity oath) vs. looking forward (non-Muslim posters argue that men could make a forward-looking oath)
- men didn't have to make the purity oath because it was looking backwards (OP's many women with illegitimate children) vs. looking foward but of course men had to make the oath (here I think OP was arguing with herself)
- women had no rights before Islam (see Khadija)
- it's necessary to talk to "multiple" Muslim scholars to understand Islam (Muslim OP said this, not sure where Muslim 2:29 is on this, non-Muslims disagree)
- non-Muslims cannot understand Islam (Muslim OP said this, but the Muslim above at 2:29 and non-westerners disagree)
- Whether the monotheistic deity should be called God or Allah (Muslim OP and the Muslim poster above disagree)
- disagreeing with OP makes one an "islamophobe" (OP) or not (western posters)
- there is most likely an unnamed islamophobe organization behind all the posts disagreeing with OP; this can be identified with the moderator's help; and this will make a great topic for an article in the mainstream press (OP) vs. don't be ridiculous (paraphrase of everybody else's words and emojis)

Have I missed anything? Gotten anything wrong?

Disagreement *should* be fine. Yet, the fact that OP shows up here every night with a handful of new arguments and more name-calling about "islamophobe" suggests that, to OP, disagreement is not only wrong, it is equivalent to a hate crime. And, of course, OP's latest rounds of midnight posts spark a new day full of retorts.

Trying to get the last word is not going to change the fact that we all simply disagree![/quote][/quote]

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