Man, that whole top post was completely foreign in multiple ways. Women of 25 years old being spinsters, going to university ruins women, bargaining costs with the father to marry the daughter while the mother is ignored, dating non-Muslims ruins a woman, virginity tests…what a fucked up and controlling world.

You must be very, very young if you do not remember these tropes being absolutely standard in the ‘Christian’ world, and not paying much attention now if you think they’ve completely disappeared since.

Probably older than you.

That’s a bizarre take about me. Anything else you’d like to make up?

Am I only allowed one expression of shock at the foreign-ness of that world or can I SMH as often as I like?

When I was born, married women were barred from most white collar jobs and women did not have the right to their own bank accounts, decades before rape within marriage was formally recognised as a crime.

If you are old enough to remember this era, you should realise that singling out these behaviours as somehow “Muslim” is bizarre.

I appreciate that that might not have been your intent (although it is certainly the subtext of this thread).

Honestly I don’t recall any other religions 60 years ago that straight up stoned their wives or honor killed their children.

So you haven’t been paying attention. Well done.

Please show me another mainstream religion that has been doing shit like this in the west. I’ll wait.