Women-only city planned - What do you think?

[aishah]

lusciouskiwi asked me to post this publicly so i'm posting it here. (it's a pm i sent.)

fasting isn't obligatory if someone is elderly, sick, pregnant, menstruating, etc. that's why the laws making eating during ramadan illegal make absolutely no sense to me. i can't fast because of health reasons. there are about a million reasons why someone could be exempt from fasting - and islam is not supposed to be compulsory. it makes me angry that it's shoved down anyone's throat.

nowhere did i say i was angry with you. i said i was disgusted with countries that take things that are not islamic at all and enshrine them in law and call them islam. (probably about how moderate and progressive christians in america feel towards people who are busy getting completely unchristian things enshrined in american law.) and i'm frustrated that every discussion about anything remotely related to islam devolves into a discussion of how awful the laws are in certain countries.

to clarify the last comment - i mean - it is really frustrating that everything related to islam has to be about how awful islam is (or certain countries are), and how discussions about one particular issue in saudi arabia mean that a million other things are brought into the conversation.