pope urban 2 wrote on Aug 20
th, 2008 at 6:42pm:
How could you possibly know what goes on behind closed doors in Islamic countries, you think abused woman can leave their husbands and go to Centrelink or the Child Support Agency to get financial support to make leaving so easy as it is here. If a woman has trouble leaving an abusive man here, it would be magnified 10 fold there, we are open with our statistics on most things, good or bad but you will never get any Islamic woman to say anything public, let alone any of their Governments.
And what do you base that on? Like seriously...do you have any evidence, besides bigotry?
You ask Imperial how he could possibly know what goes on in a muslim country? I can ask you the same thing.
I am Egyptian (born here). I have female relatives who in Egypt who are happily married. I have female relatives who are divorced, who even instigated the divorce. They have no trouble leaving there husbands.
You know nothing about Islamic women...I would be surprised if you even knew any. Don't pretend that you do.
Fact is that domestic abuse is a problem everywhere, all over the world, however, the fact is alcohol compounds the problem. And Australia has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world per capita. These are the facts.
Imperial makes some good points. Drug abuse is absolutely rampant in our society. Suicide rates are amongst the highest in the world. Especially in the country. Child abuse is rife in this country. Every couple of months you hear of another child pornography ring has been busted. Thousands of Aussie men have been arrested over the years for visiting Thailand on 'sex holidays' to go and play with little boys and girls. Every weekend without fail there are 3-4 violent crimes on our streets. It is almost a weekly ritual now....watching news on Monday hearing about the alcohol and drug fueled violence on the streets. Stabbings and shootings are becoming a regular occurance.
Perhaps you should ask yourself...why are our youth reverting to drugs...and even preferring death over life.
Perhaps before you attack other peoples cultures, maybe you should look at your own!
You can attack muslims all you like, however, the fact is that these are not issues in muslim countries.