its the exact same type of arguments they threw out when i pointed the finger at radical islam.
they point out that there are women who are abused in the US and then conclude that anyone, therefore, who points the finger at Iran (for example) for women's rights violations is just ethnocentric and can't see the evils in their own country.
they fail to see the lop sided asymmetry between comparing women's rights violations in the US and Iran.
Someone even twisted the facts by saying, in effect, "there are only 7 women scheduled to die in Iran by stoning and only 6 were killed over a three year period" compared to how many women are murdered, beaten, raped, or otherwise degraded every day in the USA. (By the way, I call bull shit on the source you cited...most of the stonings in Iran take place at a local level in rural areas. So I have real doubts about accurate numbers in any report).
This type of logic fails to account for the fact that under radical muslim law a woman is essentially the property of her father and then later the property of her husband. she is denied access to education and freedom of expression even within her own home. it is enforced by the state.
Anyone who wants to believe that women are better off in Iran than they are in the USA is sticking their head in the sand. Sure, not EVERY woman in the USA is better off than EVERY woman in Iran. That is hardly the point.
Its gotten to the point where anytime an American looks around the world and sees something that is immoral or unjust he is called everything from ethnocentric to racist to ignorant. Sometimes, its not just some ignorant American pointing the finger at some culture he just doesn't take an interest in understanding.
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