Islam, like any other ideology, is how it is practiced and not how it is “written”. It does appear that Islam seems to be quite accident prone what it comes to being understood correctly - and most accidents seem to end lethally. That’s where imams need to play a more proactive role rather than one of damage control.

Female circumcision predates Islam (Mohammed cautioned that it be done carefully, knowing he wasn’t able to stop the custom). And Kikuyu and other pagan African tribes practice female circumcision.

On the other hand, it is almost unknown in the country with the largest Female population: i.e. Indonesia.

Female abuse occurs when men try to control women. It occurs in all sorts of societies (Africa/Asia/South America/North America). However, “honor killing” is a mainly Arab custom: one that occurs in Palestinian Christians, for example, but not in other Islamic countries.

The problem for this girl is that a vile narrow minded type of Islam is being spread via Saudi funded mosques all over the world. And these immans stress veiling women, intolorance of other religions etc.

The argument you’re using is called “moral equivalence” — Christians can be bad too, so don’t paint Islamists as being the bad guys. It is an argument often used by multiculturalists to excuse the systematic abuse of women under Islam.  But it doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.     

Hirsi Ali, a woman born in Somalia and raised Muslim, points out that Islam, unlike religions such as Christianity and Judaism, has not re-assessed and discarded teachings which systematically result in violence toward women. Since immigrating to the U.S. she has written a book called, “Infidel”. 

Keep in mind this is a single instance of a crime. Compare it with the video that pops up now and again of a stalker abducting a young woman who is later found dead. Aqsa Parvez’s death is NOT a normal “islamic event.” I remember a kid in 1st grade whose Christian mother forced him to kneel in rock salt when he was bad until his knees bled. When he was 12 she beat him so badly he lost hearing in one ear. Parents are sometimes overprotective, sometimes STUPID, like the woman who created the phony MySpace page that led to the suicide of Megan Meier. But that’s another story…

http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2007/12/double-life-of-aqsa-parvez.html

I wondered, “Are those Imams practicing takiya?” Takiya is the practice, encouraged under Islam, of lying to infidels, telling infidels what they want to hear to keep them off guard.

The liberal CBC has become a vehicle for takiya. They even have a sitcom now called, “Little Mosque on the Prairie”.