For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to … - Riane Eisler

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There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

Riane Eisler

For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing a woman who makes her own sexual choices (like marrying without her father's consent) is considered honorable, rather than criminal.

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Women represent 70 percent of the 1. 3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.

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That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.

Christian, Fundamentalists, Right, War, Women, World

there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.

Female, Force, Humanity, Males, Patterned, Two

Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.

Caring, People, Challenges, Meeting, Came, Theories

war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

Sex, War, Sexes, Divinely, Ordained