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I have a Muslim friend who also wears a headscarf. She is an educated and cordial woman who fled Damascus to Germany some time ago together with her two children. Do you think she had to flee because she is wearing her head covered? The arrogance of the West and the widespread intolerance towards foreign cultures, as much as they disturb you, contribute to further discord. This kind of "education" creates further hatred for what we reject.

Doesn't peace mean accepting people even when we are deeply opposed to their cultural oddities?

This pictorial joke makes women small and declares them victims. Because once the victims have been identified, you get the legitimation to hate the perpetrators. Such wars in the name of liberation from oppression are then also waged in our hearts.

Do you have contact with Muslim families? Can you really say with absolute certainty that all Muslim men beat and oppress their wives?

Have you become friends with Muslims, do you know their individual stories, don't you think that the media denunciations basically distance them from Western values and stand more strongly by their own heritage? How insulting it can be to be portrayed as evil and stupid, does this contribute to a dialogue that wants to be conducted in peace? Denigrating a culture divides people.

In every culture, no matter where in the world, there are evil machinations, violent and desperate people. Pointing the finger at them and feeling oneself better or superior merely continues the spiral, but does not stop it.

You could try to approach a strange man in friendship, who seems so completely different to you and who comes into conversation with him, asking him, but not prejudging, what it is that seems valuable to him.

When he recognizes in you a trusting role model, when he begins to love you, because you love and respect people and your woman, will you perhaps at some point become a friend for him. Do you have male friends whom you love with your heart, whom you embrace, with whom you interact in tenderness? If he can witness men and women coming together at the interfaces of conflict, change has a chance to develop slowly and voluntarily. It is difficult to make such changes, to move towards each other despite prejudices, and to remain calm when bad contradictions and rejected views show themselves in dialogue.

But only if you take the trouble to pursue these seriously can a single friendship with a family or a man flourish. Shouldn't that be enough for a start?

This pictorial joke makes women small and declares them victims

Who gets punished if a woman gets raped in Sharia law?

Not the man...

Swiss women were not allowed to vote until the 1970s, if I recall it correct. Until the middle of the century, women here were at a disadvantage compared to men. Women's rights have taken a very long time to come here, too.

You will not convince the Islamic world, which invokes Sharia law, to change its belief system, especially not if the West itself appears to have been gripped by a deep crisis of meaning. Which, I think, is a matter many people are concerned with.

The spreading by denigration of symbols like the headscarf with attached texts like the above is an expression of anger or ridicule. Now we all know that this leads to the opposite of the intended. It is turning-off and deepening aversion instead of courage to approach those who are understood to be different.

If I were to ridicule you personally, would any form of communication be hostile, or would we simply stop talking to each other, or not?

This development, that the Sharia will one day be a thing of the past, may no longer occur during your and my lifetime. In the history of human development it has always proved to be the better strategy to get in touch with enemies and to show them a certain respect for their traditions, no matter how absurd and distorted they may seem.

Only the constant dripping hollows the stone. But satires or contemptuous memes throw back the efforts of all those who want to overcome their strangeness to each other. People must first spend several generations in a different culture in order to change their canon of values. The old is only slowly replaced by the new.

One can take a critical look at Sharia law. But I would think that if it were a matter of more in-depth and well-founded research that discusses history and the further causes for adhering to outdated traditions, I would be in favour. I would assume that this is especially the case in countries that are going through many crises, for example Afghanistan, which has been a battlefield for many decades. People who suffer uninterruptedly from armed conflicts tend to cling more firmly to their faith and to the old, because there is often hardly anything else that makes sense to them.

I know this at first hand, because I come from a family that had to stay away from home for more than forty years, my parents and grandparents have a long history of expulsion, and they clung very much to a belief in God, because otherwise they would most likely have gone mad. From my point of view war and captivity are often involved with the belief system.

This is a true reality man. I live around a lot of Muslims and I have had several similar cases as this one.

The hijab is not just a piece of clothing it is meant to hide the beauty of women from lustful men

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The same lustful men that leave their wives in hijabs at home and then go to prostitutes?

The same lustful men championing Sharia Law, protecting themselves from punishment should they rape women, while the women get stoned for being raped...?

It is the men which have been corrupt

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Hahahahahahaha!!!! That doesn't work my friend.

yeah so being nude stops lustful eyes of men? don't think so

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In Nigeria my country. I live among a lot of Muslims and their men fucks them even when they are not married to them, even with their hijabs on. 😎

That is what happens when people succumb to lust, i am a muslim man and i have not had sex in my entire life as i am not married as long as people control their lust there would be less rape and shet like that

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Yes, my point is that, wearing hijab doesn't protect a man from lusting after a woman.

and what i am trying to say is not all men are same 😅

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Yes, but it is not the hijab, making the men abstain from sex different. 😀

I live among a lot of Muslims and their men fucks them even when they are not married to them, even with their hijabs on.

Where is your integrity? Can you use another form of talking about men and women other than belittle them?

What are your ethics if you have them?

Am just expressing the reality.

That was not my question.

As a Christian, Muslims have ridiculed my religion a lot of times, so I don't see anything wrong ridiculing their from time to time.

I think a lot of religions would be well served to take a step into the 21st century...

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