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Nick Windsor 4 wrote (see)

Louise - Not at all I can see that if we spent our vast amounts of foreign policy money on the education of women in the third world it would be a mind-blowingly different place, but Sexism in this instance has no connection with the Murder yesterday or the actions of those filmed, and it detracts from the seriousness of what happened.

I'll refer you back to the heading of the thread then, so you can work out the connection.

Nick Windsor 4 wrote (see)

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JMopper wrote (see)

Firstly - I would say their sexism is probably not the biggest thing to be concerned about.

 

Actually I think it is a very important thing to be concerned about; it underpins a view of the world which 'ranks' people and accords importance to their views according to that ranking priest, other men, boys, women, girls - in that order.  (Each has a specific monetary value in Islamic law, by the way, as does livestock.)

It allows the perpetuation of a misogynist, fundamentalist world view as each generation of uneducated women brings up the next generation of narrow minded bigots.

There is also evidence (that I can't be @rsed to google) that indicates that not educating women is highly correlated with ongoing poverty, and that educating women is a major factor in raising living standards, as their spending priorities appear to be fundamentally different than men's. 

But hey ho, let's not worry about sexism.  After all it never did us any harm .

 

 

Sorry Louise but if you get hot under the collar regarding sexism over the murder of a soldier on British soil you're off track

You seem to have entirely missed my point, but not to worry.

JMopper wrote (see)

Firstly - I would say their sexism is probably not the biggest thing to be concerned about.

 

Actually I think it is a very important thing to be concerned about; it underpins a view of the world which 'ranks' people and accords importance to their views according to that ranking priest, other men, boys, women, girls - in that order.  (Each has a specific monetary value in Islamic law, by the way, as does livestock.)

It allows the perpetuation of a misogynist, fundamentalist world view as each generation of uneducated women brings up the next generation of narrow minded bigots.

There is also evidence (that I can't be @rsed to google) that indicates that not educating women is highly correlated with ongoing poverty, and that educating women is a major factor in raising living standards, as their spending priorities appear to be fundamentally different than men's. 

But hey ho, let's not worry about sexism.  After all it never did us any harm .

Sometimes I mean to say 'nothing thanks' but 'carrot cake please' comes out instead