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I don't understand your question..
I don't know if you're aware of this but a religion is a system of belief. Since women are people they're allowed to believe whatever they want. Women might just so happen to believe in what Islam teaches, thus the appeal. Now keep in mind there is the belief aspect to religion, and the lifestyle aspect to religion. There are many women in the world who value modesty, honesty, equality, righteousness.. And for your information, Islam, compared to other religions of its time, gives women some of the best rights that they could ask for. For example, they are allowed to own their own property and business and do not have to turn it over to their husbands if they married. She does not have to share her money with her husband. Also, approval and consent is a prerequisite to marriage. And there are many other verses in the Qur'an that explain that women and men are equals, and neither is inferior or superior to the other. Basically, they're all human beings and treated as if they were. THAT is what women see in the "Muslim religion".
The reason I asked, and I was not being rude about it, is that, from an outsiders perspective, there is no equality at all. It seems like they are treated like complete crap by their husbands, have little no rights, forced marriages, etc. Yes the Qur'an may explain that they are equals but that is not often practiced in the middle east. They are dehumanized by men.
On the phone hence the typos and not seeing an edit button...
Alright well.. you have to understand that the media blows things extremely out of proportion. Those ,men take the Qur'an completely out of context. They use Islam to justify the way they treat women, when their actions are not justifiable at all... but since we believe them when they say that this is Islam and do not research the topic ourselves, we wrongfully believe them. Also, male superiority is a very cultural thing.. We mistake it for religion (in fact, they mistake it for religion), when it's really a cultural issue. I definitely think it's a big problem in the Third World, but it's not even an accurate depiction of the majority of Muslim women. That's just all we see and hear about in the media, so it would appear that all women are subject to their husband's will.. but that's not true. I assure you, men that do that to their wives are going completely against what Islam teaches.. it's just up to us to believe whether or not they're acting out of their faith (they're not) or if they're acting out of their own sense of superiority. You could very easily look all of this information up as well. I apologize if my last comment was a bit hostile.
Yes, my comments were more towards the third world and the middle east. Sometimes I wonder if the women over there just do not know any better as they are removed from the rest of the world or if they do know better are too scared to do anything about the way they are treated. I feel very bad for the muslim women I see that are stuck in these situations.
Definitely make it clear that you're talking about women who are actually oppressed cause you have no idea how upset your original question made me hahaha. And I know it's just the internet, but still..
I'm sure there are some places where they truly don't know any better and they're just stuck in that ongoing cycle, but for the most part, I think they do know better but don't have the resources to exit their society completely (and that's also a really scary thing.. to leave everything that you've known since childhood). Also, the Middle East is completely misunderstood. For example, Saudi Arabia is NOT what we should be thinking of when we think Middle East. There's so much more to it than that. Countries like Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, even Syria and Iraq are modernized countries. They don't even require women to cover their hair. Saudi, Iran, and Afghanistan are completely different stories. They have "Islamic" regimes and claim to use Shari'a as their code of law.. when all they're really doing is making up the rules themselves and claiming that it's Shari'a. And unfortunately we take their word for it because very few people actually know what real Shari'a is. We let them win by not caring to find out what it really is. If women did have the will to escape, it's VERY hard to get out of Iran or Afghanistan.
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I don't know if you're aware of this but a religion is a system of belief. Since women are people they're allowed to believe whatever they want. Women might just so happen to believe in what Islam teaches, thus the appeal. Now keep in mind there is the belief aspect to religion, and the lifestyle aspect to religion. There are many women in the world who value modesty, honesty, equality, righteousness.. And for your information, Islam, compared to other religions of its time, gives women some of the best rights that they could ask for. For example, they are allowed to own their own property and business and do not have to turn it over to their husbands if they married. She does not have to share her money with her husband. Also, approval and consent is a prerequisite to marriage. And there are many other verses in the Qur'an that explain that women and men are equals, and neither is inferior or superior to the other. Basically, they're all human beings and treated as if they were. THAT is what women see in the "Muslim religion".
The reason I asked, and I was not being rude about it, is that, from an outsiders perspective, there is no equality at all. It seems like they are treated like complete crap by their husbands, have little no rights, forced marriages, etc. Yes the Qur'an may explain that they are equals but that is not often practiced in the middle east. They are dehumanized by men.
On the phone hence the typos and not seeing an edit button...
Alright well.. you have to understand that the media blows things extremely out of proportion. Those ,men take the Qur'an completely out of context. They use Islam to justify the way they treat women, when their actions are not justifiable at all... but since we believe them when they say that this is Islam and do not research the topic ourselves, we wrongfully believe them. Also, male superiority is a very cultural thing.. We mistake it for religion (in fact, they mistake it for religion), when it's really a cultural issue. I definitely think it's a big problem in the Third World, but it's not even an accurate depiction of the majority of Muslim women. That's just all we see and hear about in the media, so it would appear that all women are subject to their husband's will.. but that's not true. I assure you, men that do that to their wives are going completely against what Islam teaches.. it's just up to us to believe whether or not they're acting out of their faith (they're not) or if they're acting out of their own sense of superiority. You could very easily look all of this information up as well. I apologize if my last comment was a bit hostile.
Yes, my comments were more towards the third world and the middle east. Sometimes I wonder if the women over there just do not know any better as they are removed from the rest of the world or if they do know better are too scared to do anything about the way they are treated. I feel very bad for the muslim women I see that are stuck in these situations.
Definitely make it clear that you're talking about women who are actually oppressed cause you have no idea how upset your original question made me hahaha. And I know it's just the internet, but still..I'm sure there are some places where they truly don't know any better and they're just stuck in that ongoing cycle, but for the most part, I think they do know better but don't have the resources to exit their society completely (and that's also a really scary thing.. to leave everything that you've known since childhood). Also, the Middle East is completely misunderstood. For example, Saudi Arabia is NOT what we should be thinking of when we think Middle East. There's so much more to it than that. Countries like Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, even Syria and Iraq are modernized countries. They don't even require women to cover their hair. Saudi, Iran, and Afghanistan are completely different stories. They have "Islamic" regimes and claim to use Shari'a as their code of law.. when all they're really doing is making up the rules themselves and claiming that it's Shari'a. And unfortunately we take their word for it because very few people actually know what real Shari'a is. We let them win by not caring to find out what it really is. If women did have the will to escape, it's VERY hard to get out of Iran or Afghanistan.
