Well, I'm stressed that "Islam is emerging on American college campuses." If Muslims want to repress women, they can go back to whereeverthehell they came from and beat their own womenfolk with sticks, cause it ain't happenin' here.
Note that the article has nothing to do with beating women, nor anything to do with "forcing women" to do this or that.
I'm stressed that any position taken by Muslims anywhere is a) automatically ascribed to all Muslims and b) automatically used as grounds for saying things like "kick all dem darn muslims out if'n they wanna be relijis"
To illustrate the folly of this reasoning, I offer an example of similarly poor reasoning and rhetoric applied to Christians:
"American Christians do not allow any mixing of the genders, because they believe that unquestionable obedience to 'Christ' [the Christian word for God] demands complete separation. Women who mingle with men are subject to discipline, and can even be expelled from university for so-called 'immodest behavior' according to the Christian interpretation of 'loyalty to Christ', the religious code that governs every minute aspect of the Christian life....for example, the following is from the laws governing students at a well-known American Christian religious institution:
http://www.bju.edu/prospective/expect/general.htmlLoyalty to Christ results in separated living. Dishonesty, lewdness, sensual behavior, adultery, homosexuality, sexual perversion of any kind, pornography, illegal use of drugs, and drunkenness all are clearly condemned by Gods Word and prohibited here. Further, we believe that biblical principles preclude gambling, dancing, and the beverage use of alcohol.
Dating and Mixed Groups
We want students to have wholesome social opportunities in a setting that provides accountability for biblical requirements of purity. It is with this in mind that we chaperon campus activities where men and women students are present and require a chaperon when students date or interact in a mixed group off campus.
Now if someone tried to sell me the above about Christianity, I would not know whether to laugh or cry, because it is obviously ridiculous and untrue.
Yet the very same thing is being done to Islam here...and why don't we question it exactly?