The Compassion Principle

(noun)A principle inherent in religion; an interpretational device applied to religious texts and religious practice that emphasizes the religion's essential expression of compassion as it should be emphasized, in assuring that the religion remains true to itself in reinforcing universal aspects of humanity;an interpretational device that can be called upon to overthrow inhumane, violent, or …

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Patriarchal Distortions: The Wives of the Prophet

No one, in neither books nor sermons, dares disagree that the Prophet's wives were great women, of great intelligence, great generosity, and great accomplishments. But as it is the nature of patriarchy to belittle those women it has failed to completely erase, rarely is there an occasion in which the memory of the wives is …

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Privilege in the Qur’an: Verse 4:34 and Verse 4:135

Verse 4:34 may be the most controversial verse in the Qur'an for Muslim feminists, and the deliberate mistranslation has already been tackled in this space. But what I want to do now is examine a different part of the verse, specifically the beginning, which has also been unsurprisingly interpreted in highly questionable ways in only …

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Questions I’ve Been Asked About Animal Rights

Originally I planned on writing a different entry today, on Islam, but this has kept emerging ever since the last entry about the subject.You wouldn't object if I crushed a cockroach. This is hypocritical, and proves that you don't respect all living things equally as you claim.You probably wouldn’t torture the cockroach before you killed …

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