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Thread #48280 Message #724561
Posted By: CarolC
06-Jun-02 - 03:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Women's rights in Bangladesh
Subject: RE: BS: Women's rights in Bangladesh
Well, Alex, it's hardly just Muslim countries. India, a largely Hindu country, has an abysmal record with regard to the treatment of women. (Take for instance the problem of men in India setting their wives on fire in order to kill them and get a new wife and a new dowry.) And then there's the thriving white (sex) slave trade going on right now in any number of European countries that are not Muslim countries, as well as in Israel. It's happening all over. It is not a religious issue. It's a gender issue.