> > Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> d) The Muslim religion considers women and men to
> >> be equals. However, by their actions and
> >> strictures if not by their words, women are
> >> treated as subservient to men within the Muslim
> >> culture that has evolved over hundreds of years
> >> in the middle-east.
>
--- Cornel DaCosta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Interestingly, when I was in Jerusalem, by the
> Wailing Wall, there were Jewish men in long black
> robes publicly thanking God for (among other
> things), not making them women/female. Our travel
> guide explained their prayers --- translated into
> English for our benefit. That they were born from
> women (mothers) seemed to have escaped them!
>
Mario adds:
>
Perhaps Cornel is not so thankful to be born a man as
the orthodox Jews he describes:-))
>
I hope it has not escaped his attention that, also in
Israel, a woman was the Prime Minister of the country
and the current Foreign Minister is a woman.
>
>
