Of course. Just like in Christianity and in any other religion there are theologians with different opinions about many facets of life. But Islam and women’s rights aren’t a very happy combination in general.
Islam sees women as inferior and even as objects
Under easy circumstances a Muslim man won’t treat his wife too badly and that is why most Muslims find their religion pretty good for women and their position. But the slightest thing happens and they then the truth comes out: in Islam man is in charge and that is that. Women must serve him in the kitchen, in the house and in bed, period. No headaches for women, no bad days and no rights if another man should rape her. Rape is woman’s fault according to this religion, always and it means death for her without any discussion.
More or less secular Muslims can be enormously friendly and warm people, so you don’t see the other side of how they think. But almost all men in Islam are totally convinced that they are better, smarter and even more adult than any woman. They think a woman is a child you should educate and that is the reason why many get married to a much younger woman or even a girl. Here is a girl who has to live under Sharia law. Listen to what she says:
A MusIim Girl enjoying life under sharia law says: “ I wish god had never created women, they treat us worse than animals.”pic.twitter.com/HoJoMGaaOE
— Azzat Alsalem (@AzzatAlsaalem) December 10, 2023
“I wish God had never created women. They treat us worse than animals”. The fact already that men treat a woman. A woman is no animal, no child and certainly no object. She doesn’t need to be treated at all. She needs to be respected as an equal human being with rights, a taste, an opinion and any freedom a man has. Nothing less than that.
Something else: nowhere in the Koran a word is spent to explain to women how to deal with a man. Like how to calm him down when he is angry or suit him when he is eh … disobedient and such. The whole religious book sees life from a man’s view and that makes Islam a religion only for men. A woman is an apathetic child that has to shut up and work. If that wasn’t the case, there would be passages for women in the book.
One man, four wives
Yesterday I was watching a series from Nigeria (War: Wrath and Revenge) about a man who was to become the governor of a province in that country. His wife supported him very much, but he took advantage of her help and tried to marry a second wife in secret. Of course it was just a series, but in quite some Muslim countries things like this happen and women have absolutely no rights whatsoever to stop their husband from taking other wives. A man has the right (!) to have four wives: the Koran says it, so no-one can do anything about it.
Actually the Koran says that only after a time of war or disease or something like that, where many people have died and the population needs to grow again, a man may take more than one wife. In the text here above the book tells about ‘orphans’, which means women who lost their parents for some reason and can’t be marred by them. The first wive or the more than one a man already has, must agree to him taking yet another wife. But tradition and stupidity have a great influence, so barbarian practices like the situation I described above do happen. Men who think women have rights like anyone else are not real Muslims.
Beating your wife is … therapeutic!
Palestine is hot news with the horrible war going on there. Here is a Doctor from the Islamic University of Gaza and listen to what he says right on TV about a man beating his wife. It’s disgusting, but as you can read right above, the Koran does give the right to a man to punish and even beat a “disobedient” wife. Again that disrespectful word “disobedient”, as if a woman is the possession of a man and some kind of a toy.
A doctor from the Islamic University of Gaza talking about how wife beating should be therapeutic and the normalization of it for family well being.
This the ideologies that the likes of Rachel Notley’s NDP, and Jagmeet Singh’s NDP and Justin Trudeau Liberals support.
And… pic.twitter.com/vyGdVEgSQF
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) October 23, 2023
Concubines!
Here we have another Islamic scholar. He is from Saudi Arabia, his name is Saleh Al-Fawzan. According to his reading of the Islamic Law Muslims have the right to rape (“have sex with”) married women of another religion whenever they take them captive. They also have the right to take these women as concubines for their harem:
Senior Saudi Islamic Scholar Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan: According to Islamic Law, Muslims Have the Right to Take Captive Women as Concubines and Have Sex with Them Even if They Are Married to an Infidel – Archival #WarCrimes #rape pic.twitter.com/8KRKnNfaZT
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) December 10, 2023
In practice it’s only the woman who gets stoned in countries where Shariah law exists. Not the man, who also goes astray. Reason is that women aren’t taken seriously like men and if it is her word against his, she loses. End of story. In Jesus’ time there was a woman to be stoned to death in Israel and if you remember, Jesus was asked once what he thought about stoning a woman who had slept with another man. What he said? “Let the one who has never sinned, throw the first stone”. What happened? The woman survived, because no man was completely innocent. Jesus sent the woman home after telling her not to sin again.
Even if in Israel Moses’ law was practised and if that law prescribed the woman should be stoned, it didn’t happen. Such things change the consciousness of civilisations for the better and Islam is more than ready for a raise of consciousness in women’s rights. My opinion of course!
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