France - Muslim Women Victimized by their own

Isn't Islam a lovely religion?

SAINT-DENIS, France - Fifteen-year-old Rawa risks verbal abuse — or worse — every time she leaves her house wearing jeans. Jenah was thrown out of the family home at 11, became a drug dealer at 13, and was raped by a relative a year later.

If young men in France’s poor housing projects — scenes of three weeks of nightly arson and unrest — have it rough, girls often have it worse. Not only do they suffer from racism, unemployment and deprivation: They also endure daily harassment and even violence in their own communities.

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Often from conservative backgrounds, many parents find it hard to shake off taboos. They expect their French-born daughters to remain virgins until marriage and refuse to allow them to marry non-Muslims.

And girls are often forced into marriages they do not want, said Amara.

Whose to blame?

Some activists say the influence of radical Islamic preachers is partly to blame for how men treat women.

Yes "some activists" will say and others will say Islam itself is to blame.

France isn't the only country with Islamic intolerance, Saudi Arabia is the home of Islamic intolerance.

Saudi Teacher Sentenced to 750 Lashes and 40 months in prison.

His crime?

A Saudi high-school chemistry teacher accused of discussing religion with his students has been sentenced to 750 lashes and 40 months in prison for blasphemy, officials said Thursday.

The court ruling was condemned by human rights activists, who said Mohammed Salamah al-Harbi was being imprisoned for having an "open discussion" with students.

Al-Harbi was convicted of questioning and ridiculing Islam, discussing the Bible and defending Jews, judicial officials said Thursday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

So how exactly did he blashpeme Islam? By talking about the causes of terrorism.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said al-Harbi had been "talking to his pupils about his views on a number of current topics, such as Christianity, Judaism and the causes of terrorism."

And we all know that Islam forbids talking about these topics.
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