Toadfish Monastery

All very interesting insights, and commentary... Did not mean to generalize about the whole of Muslim society oppressing the whole of the female populace of Mulsims...

And observation on the thread indicates very personal views, and general reflections on what incentivizes members of a social hierarchy... Looking for real hooks to changing attitudes in areas of limited development, and more limited tolerance of social evolution/upset/change, the only thing I have ever seen that has effected the value of women to society has been the micro-lending model of Muhammad Yunus... What's next?

Cheers

Read an interesting posting on Slate today, at http://www.slate.com/id/2162853/entry/2162854?nav=tap3, not too long after I read the story in the Style section of the Washington Post, about Lydia Cocho, a noted activist/writer who has been battling rampant pedophilia amongst Mexico's hyper-rich...

Coupling that with what I have been seeing an the media on human trafficking and my personal insight into the attitudes of the conservative Muslim community on the role of women. It seems to me that a major piece of reconstruction efforts  and how bad the oppression of 50% of the Muslim world's populace, I was wondering what others are thinking of the ramifications of the continued lag in evolution of treatment of women in the global community...

Cheers.