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RE: Religious Freedom...
This pictorial joke makes women small and declares them victims
Who gets punished if a woman gets raped in Sharia law?
Not the man...
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were a matter of more in-depth and well-founded research that discusses history and the further causes for adhering to outdated traditions, I would be in favour.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.