Your comment reminds of this excellent debate between Noam Chomsky and Robert Trivers.

My intention to post it here is to make us realize the fact that yes there could be instances where other people would look at Jews and call some of their religious following to be extremist, in the same way they do to Muslims.

You have to understand that people never like to criticize themselves or their own society that much. If people did that, well, we’ll be in a much better world. Everyone use one rule for themselves and another rule for the others. Reactions to this post is just that.

But using these instances to stereotype a society is wrong in itself.

My intention to post it here is to make us realize the fact that yes there could be instances where other people would look at Jews and call some of their religious following to be extremist, in the same way they do to Muslims.

Calling a religion follower an extremist has become norm of the day.

If I ask you, how do you know that women in Afghanistan actually have heavy, traditional restrictions on them ?

Afghani women, in majority, wearing a burqa is a common known fact. No need to think twice about that.
Afghani women being oppressed by the Taliban is a rule.
Saudi women not being alloiwed to drive, is a know common fact. No need to think about that twice.
etc etc etc etc.

It’s there, its know, its true.

Just because there is no one here to advocate Afghanistan, doesn’t mean that the news-reports are therefore exaggerated and not reliable yet until proven so by another.

If I ask you, how do you know that women in Afghanistan actually have heavy, traditional restrictions on them ?

The point for this post was that whatever appears on these news sites are not exactly how the situation is at the other end. If I was not aware of the certain exaggerations done by these news sites, I would have taken this article at face value. But because I know that these sites do not paint the actual true picture at times, I posted it here to see the response.

While there is defense on Israel’s behalf, there is no one here to clarify the situation in Afghanistan. Therefore, when you hear about atrocities on women in Afghanistan through these news sites, think twice before taking it on face value.

We can also consider this as extremism:

I do understand till where it says that the modesty buses are a way of maintaining the modesty level in the society, by avoiding public contact of men and women. This does make sense when a man and woman are not married to each other.