RE: Women rights in Islam
June 12, 2013 at 8:08 am
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2013 at 8:14 am by Brian37.)
Ok here we go again, YES YES YES, Islam in it's over all collective climate is still living in a oppressive past. But to claim sexism and oppression of women cant be found elsewhere in some form is disturbing to me to ignore. LDS and Mormons and Amish and some Hindu sects and Sikh sects still maintain gender roles and child brides are not exclusive as a concept to Islam. Christianity prior was just as sexist and oppressive to women, and even today we have a Republican party who uses Christianity to erode the reproductive control women have.
Go after Islam, but in 3rd world countries that are not Muslim have just as much ignorance and sexism to women. The issue of female oppression is a human issue over all. Religions will come and go and change over time, but girls and women will still be girls and women.
And to serve as an example Ayaan Hersi Ali who escaped Islam would probably agree with me. If she is willing to condemn ALL child mutilation of genitals in ALL religions, boy or girl, then that should tell you religion itself is the issue, not the particular religion. Jews use religion to excuse torturing baby boys. Christians in Africa also practice genital mutilation in some SOME SOME sects. And rape in war is conducted by uneducated societies regardless of religion.
Islam is merely currently lacking a secular leash on it so it gets the most attention, but our behavior as humans when combined with ignorance has always had the potential to lead to cruelty. WHEN rightfully going after Islam, ultimately you are still talking about human evolution that leads to the ignorance that leads them to the oppression of women, just like other cultures to some degree do, and other cultures in the past have.
The only way to topple female oppression in Islam is to tell the women in that culture that they are not property and do not have to put up with being treated like property. If you don't want to walk behind a man, you don't have to. If you want to drive, you can. If you want an education you can. If you want to leave Islam you can. If you want to have a job, you can. If you don't want to wear a tent, you don't have to. To Arab women worldwide and to women still in Islam, YOU ARE NOT PROPERTY of anyone. Your brain is yours, not theirs.
But as I say that to Arab women, that also goes for women in any culture. Female or male, your brain is yours no mater what. No one has the right to tell you what you should be, what you need to believe. Educate yourself and be yourself.
Go after Islam, but in 3rd world countries that are not Muslim have just as much ignorance and sexism to women. The issue of female oppression is a human issue over all. Religions will come and go and change over time, but girls and women will still be girls and women.
And to serve as an example Ayaan Hersi Ali who escaped Islam would probably agree with me. If she is willing to condemn ALL child mutilation of genitals in ALL religions, boy or girl, then that should tell you religion itself is the issue, not the particular religion. Jews use religion to excuse torturing baby boys. Christians in Africa also practice genital mutilation in some SOME SOME sects. And rape in war is conducted by uneducated societies regardless of religion.
Islam is merely currently lacking a secular leash on it so it gets the most attention, but our behavior as humans when combined with ignorance has always had the potential to lead to cruelty. WHEN rightfully going after Islam, ultimately you are still talking about human evolution that leads to the ignorance that leads them to the oppression of women, just like other cultures to some degree do, and other cultures in the past have.
The only way to topple female oppression in Islam is to tell the women in that culture that they are not property and do not have to put up with being treated like property. If you don't want to walk behind a man, you don't have to. If you want to drive, you can. If you want an education you can. If you want to leave Islam you can. If you want to have a job, you can. If you don't want to wear a tent, you don't have to. To Arab women worldwide and to women still in Islam, YOU ARE NOT PROPERTY of anyone. Your brain is yours, not theirs.
But as I say that to Arab women, that also goes for women in any culture. Female or male, your brain is yours no mater what. No one has the right to tell you what you should be, what you need to believe. Educate yourself and be yourself.
