1) 85% in the survey believe women should obey men.
http://scottjhiggins.com/52-of-the-w.../#.V6Kbm7iLTIU
http://www.theblaze.com/contribution...hould-obey-me/
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils...everything.htm
True, 85% is a higher percentage but it is not insignificant in other cultures. You can hear the same idea coming from both men and women here in Norway, from "modern folks". Not 85% but still plenty. The obediant wife is very much an ideal to some here which is one reason you will find recommendations for finding Asian wives, because they quote "know their place".
2) 68% think Sharia should be law. Roughly 2/3 then. That is both a high number and something that needs to be addressed but how that is related to crimes like rape, theft and murder is beyond me. It is also beyond me why 1/3 of more than 1.6 billion people should be silenced and thrown in with a group they don't agree with. People who have the same religion, the same culture and who disagree on that topic.
3) Death for adultry 46% Less than half but still, I agree here. This one is highly problematic. Interesting though that reportedly, Sharia demands death for adultry and 68% want sharia laws but "only" 46% want more than a sharia light edition. Makes you wonder what sharia means then, doesn't it?
4) Death for leaving Islam 36% and declining. In the 19th century it was a higher percentage, in some areas near 100%, now that number has been on the decline for roughly 100-200 years. Still no excuse for it but clearly one can not think this is an eternal truth in islam that noone there is challenging.
What I can't see in that result is how the responses are distributed among the various countries. That would have been interesting. Afghanistan is particularely interesting as there are relatively "new" reports (from not further back than the 1950's and 1960's) of greater equality of opportunities and rights. Men and women alike in the same college/university classrooms, headscarves and no headscarves side by side. During the 60's, a powerstruggle emerged between pro-Soviet and nationalist elements, leading to the civil war where religious groups, including mujaheddin, joined in later. Thevery much secularly rooted civil war in turn leading to the Soviet invasion, and the power vaccuum after the Soviets went back home. The bombed out mess that is today's Afghanistan is fairly well documented and it is a country where its past is pretty much cut off in the history books today. One thing you can count on is, it's heaven for extremism to grow.
Point of this? How do you think the recent history of Afghanistan, its destruction, reflects in how people there think of extreme views? How much of that would you say is islam and not the never-ceasing war that has been going on there for about 50 years now with ever new fighting sides joining in? Look at modern day Iraq. Look at Iraq say 50 or 60 years ago. Tell me it's the same country. Tell me it's the same cultivator of violence then as it is now. Look at these countries in the near past and tell me there hasn't been a change in "culture". Tell me there hasn't been a change in religious preaching. Iran was islamic before their revolution. After the revolution it was unrecognizable, many fled and even more want none of it.
I don't have an issue with the problems that are in Islam. I have an issue with how you present the present day situation as something that has always been and something that is the same everywhere. I have an issue with your one sidedness, your simple mindedness. You keep talking about "their" culture. In one sentence it's the North Africans, the next it's all muslims, as if they all share the same culture. You keep saying that in the case of Islam then religion = culture. In some areas they are the same but in no way are they the same in every field. I mentioned it before. Until what 10 years ago, female genital mutilation was presented here in Europe as a "muslim thing". It was pretty much everywhere, in every news outlet and every pub where people talk. Well lo and behold, it's not a "muslim" thing. It's a problem in a few African countries, among muslims and non muslims there alike. It goes way back to the older traditions. And then happened the European colonialism. There you have a good source for growing extremism. If you occupy a country, you will not be met with greetings and boxes of chocolate. On the other hand, there was no surprise that central Africa and beyond, all the way to Kenya, saw murder cults popping up targeting Europeans and anyone else they saw as a threat to themselves.