(July 5, 2011 at 12:08 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Islam ensures equality between men and women. What it does not provide is identicality. Modern cultures enforces identicality on men and women. Men and women are not identical. They are different, have always been, and will always be different. The psychological pressure that modern society leverages on women to mimic men and become identical to them has destroyed many a women's life forcing them into situations against their very innate nature. Islam ensures that there is equality between sexes, even though the roles may be different. It ensures that in areas where women are natural leaders, men play a supporting role and it ensures that in areas where men are natural leaders, women play a supporting role.
So, its societies fault that women want not to be beaten, and because men and women are different, the man is justified hitting a woman when he knows better? If Islam ensured equality, there would be no mention whatsoever of it being okay to hit women, which you have already stated the Quran does. If Islam ensures equality, then why does the Quran not say it's okay for the woman to hit the man? You can dress it up as religion all you want but sexism is sexism. The fact that you keep making excuses for such sexism is quite telling though.
I'm curious, do you believe it's okay to hit a woman, or are you just making an inept attempt to justify your holy verses?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell