There will still be every need to fear Islam while speeches such as the one below are used to stir up trouble, and once more treat women as nothing but meat, if we were not aware that fear is what these words are meant to create.

Learning to love instead of fear, would vanquish these warmongers, but it’s a tall order for everyone to realize that war won’t work.

You accuse me of Islamophobia because you have been conditioned to believe that Islam is a right and proper way of living a life. It is no better than any other religious fundamentalism.

I don’t want to live in a Christian regime either, but if people like this cleric play into the hands of George Bush, we will all be forced to ‘take sides’, and any sane Western woman wouldn’t want Islam.

You fail to recognize that Bush is just waiting for an opportunity to invade, and Ahmadinajahd and this cleric have just provided him with all the ammunition he needs.
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Mashad, 10 April (AKI) - A top Shia cleric in Iran has said that unveiled women are a serious danger to Iranian society as they cause men to be “transformed into beasts”.

“Women without the veil are a danger that the authorities underestimate,” said Hojatolislam Seyyed Ahmad Elmalhoda, a powerful cleric who leads the Friday prayers in Mashad, a site considered sacred for Shia Muslims as it houses the shrine of Imam Reza.

“This situation is very serious in that if men see these bad women, they will turn into beasts, and then the whole of society will have to pay the consequences.”

According to the Shia cleric, women who do not respect conservative Islamic dress rules are “sources of all that is bad in society.”

“Respecting the chador (a long, black cloak that covers the arms and legs and is usually worn with a hijab) is the law of the state and the authorities must severely punish anyone who does not respect this law, in the same way that they punish thieves and murderers,” said Elmadhoda.

He is who is also a member of the Council of Experts - a powerful body of 86 senior clerics which elects, supervises and can dismiss the country’s supreme leader.

He was speaking to journalists who were reporting on president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the shrine of Imam Reza.

“A women who does not wear the entire veil is like a fire which burns anyone who comes into contact with her,” said Elmalhoda.

“Our youth, even those who are educated by families who believe and respect the words of the Prophet, when they come into contact with this fire [the women who are not properly veiled] they burn and become ash,” he said.
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The male in any society has only become mature when he takes responsibility for his own life, and what happens in it.

Men who feel the need to ‘blame’ women for anything to do with themselves are showing themselves to have the mental age of children in the playground.

Regardless of anything else to do with Islam, this mentality is totally unsuitable for any ruling class.

Sadly religion has provided a platform for bigotry yet again.

Well thats the only thought which comes to my mind after reading a couple of your posts.