Mass protests against law granting women's rights in Mali

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Why does this argument strike me as familiar?

"It's a tiny minority of women here that wants this new law - the intellectuals. The poor and illiterate women of this country - the real Muslims - are against it," she added.

Indeed.

I suspect that all this actually shows - like with Islamic fundamentalism in general - is the strong anti-modernism (or rather "modern" as "western") of alot of the people there. Which isn't particularly surprising once you consider those places history.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

That graph shows how evil Muslim brainwashing is.

Most of this has only a slight relationship to Islam.