Louise wrote:
But there are Muslims and Muslims, too. Some Muslims interpret the Koran
in
a very strict and literalistic way; some don't. Bosnian Muslims live a
much
different lifestyle to Afghan Muslims and Saudi Arabians, and all of
these
live much different lifestyles to Cat Stevens. But none of them are any
less
Muslims, and if any one of these objected to the portrayal of their religion, you can't just say "Oh, but the others aren't objecting, so
it's
OK."
But to continue this analogy, since Muslims cannot agree amongst themselves what their religion entails, then isn't whatever I write going to be considered wrong by somebody? And since I cannot write about it at all without causing someone to object, should that take away my right to write it?
No, definitely not! But it does say to me that if you're going to write about Muslims, you should learn a bit about what the different groups are, and make sure that the descriptions you've got for them are right for the group you're writing about. Or to make the decision to throw all that information to one side, if you feel the story justifies it. But you should have the information to begin with.
What I meant is that it's a very different
thing to share your house and life with a man than with a woman, and some
of
these differences are really very subtle.
And on this subject I haven't enough knowledge to comment
But there are ways of finding out if you want to...
Shane
"Well I think we can say we're in business..." --Servalan
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