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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: If a state treated men the way certain Islamic nations treat women, the UN would ostracise that nation.

This is more a collection of views rather than just one, but I believe is nicely summarised in the above point. 

From an outsiders perspective, it seems to me that some Islamic nations essentially practice slavery when it comes to the treatment of women. I should not think this view too radical; the restrictions placed upon women, restrictions that some countries have codified into law, are absolutely the definition of slavery. These slaves may be kept well, but they are kept nonetheless.

 We have fought wars over slavery. We excluded South Africa from the community of nations for arranging its laws so that blacks could never live as well as whites, but some Islamic countries do exactly that all the time.

If any men in the world were treated like these nations treat women, the UN would ostracise that nation. 

It's precisely because it's happening to women that people (men) in power look away. It becomes a cultural matter, a religious matter, something not to be interfered with. 

It is not called slavery because it is only an exaggeration of how women are treated elsewhere; this is as much an issue of introspection as it is anything else. Our relative silence on this issue  undermines all our talk of gender equality when examined in the light of the global effort to eradicate international racial prejudice. 

Change my view.
gpt
It's possible that the international community has changed tack over the last few decades and now tries to engage with other nations wherever possible. Isolating other countries in an attempt to get them to change their policies doesn't have a stellar track record (Cuba, North Korea, Iran). Engaging with countries we disagree with opens them up to other mentalities and ways of doing business. Myanmar, China, and Vietnam were (and maybe still are) repressive states, but where they are now is amazing compared to where they were in the 80's.