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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not really why people bring up the conditions of women in Saudi Arabia as an example of a "Muslim Country", Saudi Arabia is a [b]Monarchy[/b]. It is not the whole of the Islamic World. 
Since you love links here is one for you:
[url]http://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2009/mar/25/muslim-women-power-list[/url]

and here is a post about women's rights in Ancient Persia, they did enjoy far more rights than they do today. 
Somehow men have once again twisted a religion to subjugate women as America did.
[url]http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Women_s_Rights_in_Ancient_Persia.htm[/url][/quote]

The link about Persia is interesting, and I say that as a history buff. But those were Zorastrians.

For the record, the starting point for these last 7 pages was Muslima's claim (page 23 of this thread) that [b]Islam granted voting rights to women 1400 years, ago, way before the West did. [/b]

[b]We did bring up lots of Muslim countries (page 26 of this thread) but Muslima chose to ignore them and[/b] to focus on the narrow KSA point.

If you're interested, here's the link from page 26 of this thread, showing women's voting rights in Muslim countries: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_w...e_in_majority-Muslim_countries . The link below shows Turkey, under pro-western Attaturk, was the first non-Communist, majority Muslim country to grant voting rights to women in 1930. In 1945, Senegal and Indonesia (both still colonies at the time) became the 2nd and 3rd non-Communist, Muslim-majority states to grant voting rights to women. So, all are later than the US which granted women's voting rights in 1920.

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The premise of your argument is alas wrong. I said [b]Islam[/b] granted women the right to vote 1400 years ago. Now, you know there is a difference between [b]Islam [/b]and a "[b]Muslim[/b]" Country, right? And I have responded to your post about thoe "26 muslim countries" some pages ago, maybe it wasn't to your satisfaction?  :lol: [/quote]

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