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Are Asian families driving women to suicide?

Are Asian families driving women to suicide? And do you have right to call yourself religious if you believe in evolution?

At 1, Are Asian families driving women to suicide?

A report by Southall Black Sisters say asian women aged 18-35 are three times more likely to commit suicide than women of other ethnicities. The report cites family pressures and the culture of forced marriage, and domestic abuse in Asian households, as the main reasons for Asian women being driven to suicide.

So are families themselves to blame for how these are treated? If a woman thinks suicide is her only way out...is it time Asian families changed their ways and provided more support? 


After 2 - Do you have right to call yourself religious if you believe in evolution?

A London Imam has had death threats after he held a talk in his mosque about the theory of evolution. He's since retracted his statements and said he went too far in the way he defended the theory. So if you believe God created man would that make you religious? Or if you believe in God and also that humans evolved, does that make you a bit of a hypocrite or just plain confused?

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