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So I read a lot, as I said before, and one of the things I see frequently is riots over the hurt feelings of Muslim Rage Boy.
Let me preface what I'm going to say with this: I have no problem with moderate Muslims. Totally cool with you if you don't want to make me A) convert or die or B) live under Sharia law in my home country, or C) blow people up.

But the riots over the Danish cartoons two summers ago made me laugh. I hardly thought they were serious--you set shit on fire (the shit belonging to innocent, not-involved people) because your poor wittle feeling were hurt? Awww.
Seriously, who does that? Didn't your mother teach you not to lash out violently when you were angry? Or did she skip that lesson? I thought everyone's other did that around the age of five.
I find it very hard to take people who lash out like angry children seriously. I really want to just sit them in a corner until they learn their lesson. And tell them they can't have any pie after dinner.

The most recent example of this is the riots in Calcutta that happened recently. Taslima Nasreen is a controversial feminist Bangleshi writer in India, and apparently her writing tends to ridicule Islam.
Honestly, if you can't take mockery, than you've never gotten past middle school mentally. Yes it hurts sometimes, but FIX WHATEVER IT IS (unless it's something like, I dunno, having a spine and a mind and a vagina). Or maybe think about the time the book was written.

Any and every book is the product of its era, so think about it. Would the Pope suggest that someone be whipped for theft? Well, no, he wouldn't. Community service, or maybe work to pay for whatever they stole, but not 30 lashes.
Humans are failable, yes? The Quran was not written by the Prophet himself, but by his followers, the same as the Bible. So it maybe garbled, and thus require some thought to it, rather than blindly following Scripture/the Word/etc.

Yay for the tangent!
Back to MRB.

So grow the fuck up. Grow some balls and deal with the world. Deal with the fact that there is a mind inside her pretty little head, and that she is your equal.

Now, a good question would be why woman are supposedly unequal to men. I realize the Quran says that, though what the Scriptural* reason for this is is still beyond me.

My mother has a theory that I tend to agree with that explains this trend in world culture.
Woman have an incredible amount of power simply because they are women. Men are fascinated by women--the shape, the smell, the possibilities that she holds. I've seen men go to incredible lengths to get a woman, and even further ones to keep her.
By this very fact, she wields power over her man. And no one likes to be powerless, so he puts her in a veil. Keeps her under his control, or that of a close male relative. (A lot of cultures had variations of this, but I'm going to use Middle Eastern tendencies because it's the most familiar to most people).
If he controls her behavior, he controls her allure. He cloaks the mysteries within. Hides them for his personal perusal.
Because the woman has power over him, she becomes unequal.
Why women tolerate this is beyond me. I suppose the threat of death or loss of a protector/income or physical violence is enough to convince most women it's better to give in than suffer the consequences.

*I'm probably not using the correct term for the Muslim version of Scripture, but I'm not sure what is the right one. Feel free to inform me.