Australia is taking part in a major international sporting event that kicks off today in in the capital of Iran, Tehran.
The 2015 Asian Volleyball Championship will run until 8 August, and is expected to attract tens of thousands of cheering spectators from all around the world.
All sounds pretty exciting, right?
Well, hold your applause — because women won’t even be allowed to even attend the event. In a clear instance of discrimination, Iranian authorities last year implemented a ban on Iranian women and girls attending certain events including men’s volleyball matches.
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And yet when any of us comment about how concerned we are about Islam and Muslims in Australia we are told we are prejudiced. Oh but that's right these countries even though they say they are Muslim aren't the "real Muslims" who are wonderfully enlightened about gender equality.
Don't get me wrong there are a lot of people in these countries trapped by an ideology that they detest, and I don't have an objection to people who want to escape this backward sexist crap wanting to come here, but it really bugs me when they want to hang on to this backward sexist religion when they get here. And it never occurs to them that maybe why so much of the Middle East is a mess is because of this religion and they want to flee to our "infidel" paradise without examine the possibility that maybe the reason we do have a paradise here is because we are "infidel".
I know now I will get a million responses from people saying Islam is a religion of peace and practices equality, and the governments and people of Saudia Arabia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria etc aren't real Muslims, even though they say they are, no the fact that all this extremely sexist crap goes on these countries with Muslim governments and a majority of Muslim people is just a coincidence, and they are just liars anyway when they say they are Muslims because they are not.
And what makes me really upset, is that the left wing who always looked after the downtrodden and oppressed have chosen to take sides with the oppressors of women, the Muslims. Every leftie who thinks they are being open minded by supporting Muslim rights eg to wear a burqa hijab etc don't you realise how many women you oppress, the women who are too terrified to speak out or not to wear the hijab , when you agree with their oppressors these women become more oppressed and you naively think that by supporting the oppressors you are being "tolerant", when all you are doing is playing right into their hands.