Forced burqa, hijab, or any forced clothing on women is wrong, and speaks more about the ignorance of those enforcing dress codes than of the women being forced.
"other illiterate Muslims"? Are you claiming I'm Muslim or that I'm an "illiterate Muslim"? Either one is pretty comical.
Pretend I'm saying this slowly so you can understand:
I DO NOT defend Islamists, "radical" or otherwise. I DO defend peaceful followers of any religion, whether I happen to...
No one here is defending the Islamists, nor is anyone denying there is a literacy problem, especially when it comes to reading the Qur'an... which always leads me to ask why "God's literal word" was written in such a difficult, geographically-specific language.
One can ask such questions...
I'm not denying that this happens, but you post as if EVERY Shia participates in the Muharram rituals and EVERY Sunny has and beats child brides. Make your point without generalizing about an entire population and MAYBE people will take you more seriously. Now you just sound desperate and...
IMO Hadith takes away all free thought. Perhaps God didn't want to be so specific about each and every thing, but leave some decisions up to his followers. I'm not sure God wanted every minor detail of our daily routine to be enforced some several hundred years later.