sooda
Veteran Member
Actually, it was a simple question. If we don't have the right to ask simple questions, we have bigger things indeed to worry about than Islam.
If you want a pretty good analysis of Islam, watch The Breadwinner. It shows Afghanistan under the Taliban. The main character, a girl named (Parvana) has her dad taken to prison for no crime besides teaching her history while she sits and helps watch his store outside. Under the law, women cannot buy or sell, must remain covered, can barely fetch water, and are expected to travel only with men, and everyone male or female has to abide a curfew. And so, as the only man of the house who isn't an infant, the family is basically set up to starve. The buildings are war-torn, and male children about 12 are holding semi-automatics, expected to fight. Parvana goes with her mom to beg for her father's release and her mom gets caned without hearing any explanation because she's not supposed to be outside and it's indecent and immoral (or something). She eventually has to disguise herself as a boy, in order so the family can buy just a loaf of bread or two and some rice. When Parvana finally does get to the prison, they beat her even as a boy, and later try to kill her. The family tries to get help from an in-law, and practically gets kidnapped, screaming child and all, meaning Parvana will return to an empty house. Oh yes, and her older brother died in the war, when he was about her age. It doesn't paint the US well either, showing them mainly just fly by to bomb things.
I think there could be a few things understood about Islam made more harsh by the West, but I don't think you can make all of this up.
Sad.. Up until the communists overthrew the monarchy in 1974 Afghanistan had a high literacy rate, cinemas and a café society.