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Monkeyontuesday -> RE: Inside a Saudi textbook (7/26/2008 1:45:29 PM)
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I'm not denying that there are some very serious issues at all. Of course there are.
As far as the comments about gays -- No, generally speaking, Islamic culture is not as open as we are. But we have only begun to become more open about it in the past 50 to 60 years or so, as the culture becomes less religion-oriented. There are still many places "over there" that are third-world and thus more subject to folklorish type customs.
People are still being lynched; people are still being killed for being homosexual; even following September 11th, the country went insane and there were reports of random ass men going and gunning down convenience store workers who merely looked Middle Eastern, regardless if they were Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, fill-in-the-blank.
The news is biased, to say the very least, especially in America. When I was in Israel, one of the men who was a native Israeli that I spoke to vowed never to visit America, because it was too dangerous.
Things generally make the news because they are out of the ordinary.
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