@ Joeu

1) I do not have "the answer for all human relationships in the world". But I do know what my basic values are, and also do have my own opinions about "relationships" in the world, judged in light of these values. For example, I think that the (moral) 'equality' of all human beings is a basic human value. From this, I derive that the legal equality of all human individuals is an absolute requirement for any decent (moral) legal system of any polity. I do realise (as I hope you do too) that 'equality' is a difficult concept (when applied to real world situations) with lots of room for differences of interpretation.

2) I think that you DO implicitly (or indirectly) "justify" something when you claim that islamists are "fighting against western feminisation of their culture". You did not make that statement in a vacuum. You made it IN THE CONTEXT of some people here complaining about feminisation of western culture. The term "feminisation" is highly subjective and questionable. It can meen very different things to different people. So it is a very 'vague' (undefined) charge. But it was unquestionably used here in the sense of a BAD thing.

By contrast, the oppression of women in the muslim world generally is very clear and beyond serious question. Traveller has given you some specific examples of that, but the list is really endless. It can be objectively documented and observed all the time. In a way the oppression of women by men in the muslim world can be seen as a 'byproduct' of the lack of respect (in a cultural and political sense) for individual freedom for all (including men) in that world, but that doesn't make it any more 'right'.

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So, IN THIS CONTEXT, and given the manifest oppression of women in the muslim world (something bad), your observation about islamists possibly fighting against "feminisation" (something else purportedly bad) is IRRELEVANT. If it is irrelevant then it can only be viewed as an indirect 'justification' (in the sense of 'after all they are only fighting bad feminisation').

The truth is that they are NOT fighting feminisation. How could they? Feminisation PRESUPPOSES a certain degree of equality which is manifestly not there. Oppressed people can not sink into cultural decadence (including 'feminisation'). Only fairly wealthy and politically- and legally-'emancipated' people can do that.

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A more accurate observation, than "islamists are fighting against feminisation", would be to state that "islamists are fighting for the continuation of male control over women as well as etc...).

In recent times, Islamists generally have shown great savvy in exploiting all sorts of western 'vices'. For example they have become masterful at exploiting anti-American sentiments and resentments in Europe, as well as recurring bouts of racism among certain westerners, or certain (western) male resentments about 'feminisation', etc... Most of all, they exploit the extreme moral relativism of many westerners (which enables them often to get islam put beyond public criticism). And, saddest of all, they have actully managed to reduce many so-called western feminists into 'silence' about islam's oppression of women, by playing on the acquired selfhatred for their own civilisation by these feminists. You better call a cat "a cat". Islamists fight for many things, and the oppression of women by men is one of them. Feminisation of their societies is the least of their worries, because it simply isn't even observable on the horizon. You will have to wait first for genuine democracy to emerge, i.e. freedom of political speech, so....it is going to be a very long wait.