Soldier, your slander aside, I've already discussed, in this very thread, how Arabs are White, so...
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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
That's not the point. He's accusing people who call those laws backward or misogynist of racism. If they were laws in a western country, people would have no qualms about saying that about them. But because they're part of another culture suddenly it's not misogynist to charge women for their own rape, and to say that it is would be a suggestion of racial superiority? That's the same kind of hypersensitivity he was accusing western liberals of.
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Misogyny is not an absolute; it's a byproduct of a particular cultures view of the different sexes. Hence whether or not it's appropriate to call something misogynistic is dependent upon the cultural context.
The behavior being exhibited here is racist. Why is it racist? Because it's ethnocentric.