Rape
As a biological phenomenon, religion is the product of cognitive processes that have deep roots in our evolutionary past. Some researchers have speculated that religion itself may have played an important role in getting large groups of prehistoric humans to socially cohere. If this is true, we can say that religion has served an important purpose. This does [...]
Islam’s founder and foundational documents condone and encourage Muslim men to take prepubescent girls as wives and then to have sex with them. This leads to many deaths like this one. Women in Islam are treated very differently than women anywhere else.
I recently ran across a poll on Facebook which posed the question, “Is a woman ever “asking” for rape?” This question intrigued me so I thought about it and came up with the following in reply: This is a misleading question meant to elicit an emotional response as opposed to a rational one. A woman is [...]
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