re: Muslims, Islamists, Jihadists, Terrorists

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completely clashes with the principles of Western Civilization.

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They are literally centuries behind the rest of the world and regressing.

I was talking to a Muslim woman who is apparently going to be stoned to death at some point if returns home too many times. She was asking me, as a christian, about the practice/tradition of women wearing head garments, like Catholics at the Vatican etc. I said all that I knew (very little) which it is a very old practice that I've seen with Italians and OLD Cajun women at funerals. I do not know its origin but recall seeing quite a few at my grandparents funerals in 1987. The old school French and English rosaries.

She was trying to find the text in the Koran where women shoul wear such things. She claims that there are only a couple of passages. One about a woman covering her hair, and the other about breasts essentially. Basically stating that a woman should be modest. She's making the case that "modesty" has been over interpreted and that the full beekeeper outfit has no place in Islam?

I told her I am obviously no religious scholar, but I feel all religions have people that take one passage and used it to bastardize the entire religion. I used the example of "taking up serpents" and the Appalachian churches that do this. It is a real thing. She acted as if she'd never heard this. I told her it is a real thing, but there is a huge difference. Here they are roundly laughed at, and there it is like the Muslim "snake handler types" are running the show. I cant recall if she is from Iraq or Iran, but she says she has been stopped and questioned by the "morality police" for her western dress. I told her I'd never return if I were her. If everyone in Louisiana were told they had to take up snakes or have their hands removed, Louisiana would no longer be my home. At least not the home I once knew.

I left the conversations at that. I did not ask her how she felt personally about leaving the religion or homosexuality and appropriate punishments for such infractions.