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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
What's with the arrogance?[/quote]

It's much more arrogant to tell a woman her faith is a cop-out and she has no good reasons to do what she does.

[quote=Anonymous]
Are you telling us that they are no arguments that will make sense to Western people because they are Western before they are people? In other words there is no commonality among people in rational thought?  There are a number of great Islamic thinkers I hear spinning in their graves right now.  And no, they would not have accepted that Muslims think nonlinearly while Westerners think linearly.[/quote]
There are no arguments that make sense to people committed to not understanding.  Oh, here's one: live and let live.

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Again, do you have a reason for the hijab that does not reduce Islam to a mere dress and conduct code for women?  That is not a religion.  I for one happen to think that Islam is among the greatest religions and am chagrined that and others like you maintain it is all about--only about--what women wear and have reduced it to a state where not one iota of spirituality remains, just this rule and that rule and any rule that any half-crazed preacher can issue a fatwa on and disseminate through the internet.[/quote]
Who said Islam is only about what women wear? Who said there is nothing in Islam except the hijab?

Actually, here's a better exercise for you. Imagine you are at a party where a hijabi woman happens to be. You ask her why she wears it and she tells you.  You are not satisfied with the answer, whatever it is.  Are you going to keep pressing her, stubbornly, boorishly, like you are doing here?  Are you going to tell her to her face her reasons aren't good enough and she must provide you with a better one? Are you actually capable of behaving this way in real life? [/quote]

We are not "pressing" anyone, boorishly or not.  This is a thread on an anonymous forum, no one is forced to sit here and read it.  You are the one wildly calling names, making weird and uncalled for accusations, and generally lowering the tone of the dialogue.

And don't you see the weird irony of some random atheist going on and on for pages trying to "save" poor Muslim ladies from criticism and having their feelings hurt by a bunch of boorish internet posters by explaining their beliefs.  Sheesh.[/quote]
Uh-huh. Me calling you boorish is lowering the tone of the dialogue.  But you calling hijabi women brainwashed, gullible, ignorant of their religion, illiterate, dominated by their fathers and god knows what else is...I dunno...height of civility? [/quote]

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