I think I'm more appalled that I'm not surprised that this is a thing...

I'm sorry but if children are being abused then everyone has to step-up to the plate and try and help no matter what your background. This is one of those times cultural sensitivity can sod right off (as someone who was sexually abused for many years as a child I can honestly say I wouldn't have been impressed to find…

Oh wow you must know a lot more about my religion than I do! I don't know a single forced marriage, or genital mutilation or woman who isn't allowed outside her husbands home. You know why? Because Muslims are a diverse group of people. From Europe to South East Asia. History and culture influence the current standing…

Guess what?

what you say makes sense, but look at how you're framing it. why not just speak against FGM or honor killings? why even bring islam into it? would it surprise you to find out that in orthodox islam there is literally NO INJUNCTION AT ALL to circumcise girls, much less mutilate their genitals? that in shari'ah law…

I'm genuinely sorry to have made you feel this way. Since you mention my comments specifically, let me take this opportunity to clarify a few things:

You're actually not "tolerant as fuck".

You make some good points. There is definitely some terrible Islamophobia on that thread but on the other hand there's a lot of people who seem to say that people on the outside of a culture can never have an opinion on it. That's ridiculous. By that standard Americans had no business commenting on the Apartheid…

i am a muslim woman. they (doctors, teachers, random people on the street) tried to save me very often by claiming that my marriage was forced, by thinking that - for example - i don't smoke because my parents don't allow me to. many muslim women fight the fight, and that's completely ok. and it's good if there are…

You know, we could use more voices like yours. I'm Arab and this kind of comments gets me riled up too, but I can't speak as a muslim so I just shut up. My grandparents were muslim but I don't feel confortable with saying I'm a muslimah voice - I'm not, I'm an agnostic who eats almond pastries at Eid, and who puts up…

thank you ninjacate! and sorry about the double post... i think this was actually my first-ever post on jez (i've tried before but had some trouble with... disqus? or whatever it was.) but anyway so i must have done something wrong.

The wife of the man who killed over a million Iraqis through sanctions! And bombed a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant, killing tens of thousands of people who needed medication! And lead the DLC as it made the Democratic Party more right wing!!!

I'm sort of shocked no one has brought up The White Maasai (http://www.amazon.com/White-Masai-Co…). It's this insane memoir written by a European white woman who basically stalked a Maasai warrior until he married her. Then she bitches and bitches about the conditions of living in a boma with no electricity and flies,…

"How would Native Americans feel if someone showed up did a few sun dances, slept in a tee pee and then claims to be a navajo warrior or something?"

Not everybody reads the site every day. Jesus, peep!

GENIUS! I dub him Professor GENIUS.

Dude, she was only out there for three months? One does not get the kind of nuanced view necessary for this kind of book in three fucking months.

BAM! Nicely done, Rarin Ole Sein.

Good luck getting your money back.

Rooo sez Bish Plz, I don't know...perhaps I am mistaken, but it almost sounds like you are scolding Skptaylor for never hearing those terms. I think it's a good thing. I think it shows that s/he is hanging out with good people. Skptaylor can never hear those terms, yet can still be very much aware that people have…