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You mean "country" there is only one country where women can't drive cars. Saudi Arabia. Your comment implies there is a widespread problem with muslim countrie
by lucisferre 10y ago
You mean "country" there is only one country where women can't drive cars. Saudi Arabia. Your comment implies there is a widespread problem with muslim countries banning women from driving, which would be incorrect.
- yequalsx 10y agoakerro got it factually incorrect and may be trolling. However, the gist of the point is correct. Womens' rights in predominantly Muslim countries are lagging quite a bit.
- AlexandrB 10y agoI think it's more accurate to say that women's rights in underdeveloped countries and dictatorships are lagging quite a bit. Whether Muslim or Christian. E.g. the rollback of domestic abuse laws in Russia.
- yequalsx 10y agoThere is no question, at least in my mind, that womens' rights in Muslim controlled countries lag very far behind those is non-Muslim majority countries on average.
- AlexandrB 10y agoThe fundamental question is whether this is correlation or causation. For example, in general more secular countries (regardless of religion) have "better" women's rights. However does this mean that religion causes mistreatment of women? Or is it that more developed countries are generally both more secular and have more women's rights? Predominantly Christian western countries have dominated the 21st century as much through historical accident as through merit. Had the Renaissance began in Constantinople instead of Florence we may be living in a very different world today and questioning why all these Christian countries have such a poor track record on women's rights.