\u201cThe conservative Christian college where Muslims feel welcome: Being a tiny minority in a community can amplify differences. But at BYU, a common history of being the \u2018other\u2019 leads to a learning atmosphere of empathy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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I share with you some further passages that caught my attention in John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed,\u00a0Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Gallup Press, 2007):<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
a full third of professional and technical workers in Egypt are women, on par with Turkey and South Korea<\/strong> (102)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The valedictorians of Cairo\u2019s elite medical school are famously known to almost always be female.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThese cases are hardly unique. \u00a0Nationally representative self-reported data show percentages of women in Iran (52%), Egypt (34%), Saudi Arabia (32%), and Lebanon (37%) with postsecondary educations. \u00a0In the United Arab Emirates and Iran, women make up the majority of university students. \u00a0However, in Muslim countries \u2014 as well as in non-Muslim countries \u2014 Gallup finds a wide range of female education with percentages of women pursuing postsecondary educations dipping as low as 8% and 13% in Morocco and Pakistan, respectively, which is comparable with 4% in Brazil, or 11% in the Czech Republic.<\/strong> \u00a0(103)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the UNESCO 2005 Gender and Development report, the ratio of women to men enrolled in secondary education in 2001-2002 was 100% or higher in Jordan, Algeria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Libya, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. \u00a0This compares with only 77% in Turkey, a staunchly secular nation [at the time of writing] often assumed in the West to be ahead of its neighbors in the arena of gender development, or 74% in India. \u00a0The gender gap in these nations is higher than in Saudi Arabia, which boasts an 89% ratio of women to men enrolled in secondary education, according to the U.N. report.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nDespite these hopeful statistics, women\u2019s basic education is still lagging in some countries. \u00a0For example, in Yemen, women\u2019s literacy is only 28% versus 70% among men; in Pakistan, it is 28% versus 53% for men. \u00a0These sad findings, however, are not unique to Islamic nations nor do they represent the entire Muslim world; women\u2019s literacy rates in Iran and Saudi Arabia are 70% and as high as 85% in Jordan and Malaysia.<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0(104-105)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Note to self: \u00a0I would really like to see this film, both for itself and because local Yuba City Latter-day Saints apparently figure positively in the story it tells:<\/p>\n
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An American Mosque<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m quite gratified at the fact that Latter-day Saints may be gaining a reputation for being exceptionally kind and religiously tolerant. \u00a0That\u2019s by far not the worst thing that I can imagine.<\/p>\n
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And Yuba City is going to get a temple.<\/p>\n
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