In case you haven't read it already, "How dare you?!" by Metis: I feel that those who tell Muslim feminists that Islam and feminism are mutually exclusive are the ones who are denying Muslim women their rights. And I feel a certain hatred and fear in their stance. If you are telling a woman that …
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The radical notion that women are people.
When we NEED Shari’a Law in the United States
Dun, dun, DUUUUUN! When there was paranoid talk of the 'creeping Shari’a' in the U.S. I responded with the usual scoffing and eye-rolling and exasperated exclamations of you totally do not even know what Shari’a is and also that is so not even happening. Of course, that last bit would be irrelevant—it doesn’t matter what …
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Inequality Resulting from the Separation of Moral and Social Spheres
For an overwhelming number of verses, the Qur’an holds men and women equally accountable in communal spheres of responsibilities such as upholding equity and securing justice (4:135), contrary to the misconception that women are not expected to maintain financial security or become protectors of society. In fact women who are privileged enough to be wealthy …
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unfortunate.
A while ago in a forum a Muslim man attempted to construct an argument by announcing he “wouldn’t be surprised” if I were raped or abused and were blaming Islam (?) for this instead of those who had inflicted the injustices upon me (and thus obviously any interpretation I make is a result of hysteria). …
Concern with false rape allegations is bullshit.
A couple of years ago: police believe this man raped as many as 50 women, but each jury believed the sex was consensual and so he was never convicted: As Leigh drove home that morning, she had no idea what lay in her future: that she would join 9 of those 21 accusers to face …
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Article: A letter to Islam
Being underprivileged, disadvantaged, unfairly discriminated against on a national level, on a daily basis, on the basis of religion, having the name of this religion torn away from compassion to be abused at the hands of both patriarchal Muslim men who use it as a political weapon and patriarchal non-Muslim men who disguise their racism …
Nice Guy.
I get letters from self-professed Nice Guys, complaining that women must WANT to be treated like shit, because THEY, the "Nice Guy" have failed repeatedly in relationships. --Heartless Bitches International This has been written about in the feminist blogosphere time and time again and hardly requires a post from me. However, I’ve just experienced a …
the fatal feminist 