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Originally Posted by Skybird
There is genocide taking place in Sudan and Darfur, there is barbarism in the same region, there is tribal wars in Somalia, there is barbarism in Kongo, and in many other places thoughout Africa. The continent is medically ill, politically a critical mass of potential, or low-intensity (and sometimes high spiking) warzones with unlimited living time. Sharia is on advance in many parts of muslim-influenced Africa. Children are forced to fight as soldiers from the north to the south, from the west to the east, in the past and/or in the present and forseeable future. There are so many hotspots that it needs quite ome time to find a bigger-than-medium region where they have no armed conflict.
And I even do not mention starvation, corruption, high crime, civil war factions controlling diamond and uranium mines, erosion of farmland, decreasing sweetwater reservoirs, and epidemic deseases, especially AIDS.
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Skybird nicely sums up the political situation in much of sub Saharan Africa (excluding the Southern tip of Africa). And the agressive spread of Islam is certainly one of the conflict-causing problems, because it demands the religious, cultural and social submission of all, which is opposed by many Christian and animistic Africans.
As an example of imposing sharia: Many of us will remember the Nigerian woman who was to be stoned to death for committing adultary, had gotten pregnant and just had to wait out her pregnancy.
Sharia would be much more convincing if men who committed adultary had their balls cut off.
But Islam, being a primitive, male dominant, tribal religion in this aspect, will blame women for arousing sexual desire in men* and will demand from them to cover themselves from top to toe - in a hot climate, mind you!
Male dominance and lack of respect leads to such measures, usually disguished as a measure to "protect" women against the bad instincts in (other) men, just as male dominance and lack of respect leads to rape and domestic violence, in which cases the women are also often blamed for "causing" the sexual desire or the anger.
And of course the women are constantly brainwashed that suppressing their femininity and being submitted to their spouses (and the rest of the male part of the family) is the way to please Allah...
Question: Have these men ever heard on individual responsability?
* As was by the in the past done by Christanity, Judaism and many other religions.