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I don't think Western women are more oppressed than *our* women... that is also getting old...
at least a woman is free to be the person or in the position she chooses to be in the West, without the repercussions that occur in *our* part of the world... Personally, I may not condone a lot of what does go on in the lives of many Western women - but I would say they have greater respect and freedom, than the average woman in Africa, the Middle East and those in places like Pakistan and Bangladesh etc...
One Example: I have just read an interesting article about Honour killings that have happened in Germany. Women who were killed by family members because they wanted to live their lives as they chose to. This had happened to Muslim women and Islam does not condone Honour killing, but somehow respect for Islamic principles and human life is evaded by a family and a society, that choose to think that women bring such consequences upon themselves... just this little issue is not an isolated instance, I know this happens in our homeland, Morocco.. it happened more than once, in the small town I came from... with occurrences such as these, esp when they happen in the West - how can you convince anyone that women from our cultural back round are so respected and are not oppressed?
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