Once the Prophet was with a man whose young son came to him, and the man kissed his son and lifted him onto his lap. Then the man’s daughter came and he sat her in front of him. The Prophet asked, “Why did you not treat them equally?” (al-Haythami) Even for something as minor as …
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The radical notion that women are people.
breastfeeding
Women should breastfeed EVERYWHERE.
Aasiya bint Mazahim, Queen of Egypt
Aasiya, the Queen of Egypt during the time of Prophet Musa (Moses), was a woman with faith and determination so strong that the greatest tyrant could not shake her values. Centuries later, the Prophet Muhammad named her as one of the best women of Paradise, and in the Qur’an she is an example to which …
Get Me Off This Damn Pedestal
A couple of years ago one of my classmates wrote a piece in which he hypothesized that centuries of oppression have made women stronger, more beautiful, far more intelligent, and overall superior to men. Luckily, he showed it to me before it ever saw the light of day, and in accordance with my feminism I …
Perpetuating Rape Culture in Men’s Magazines
If rape jokes substantiating the mentality of rapists that all men think like them weren’t bad enough, men's magazines sound like rapists. A group of people given quotes from British lad mags and excerpts from interviews with rapists failed to distinguish between them. From Jezebel: The participants couldn’t reliably identify which statements came from magazines …
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The Western Muslim Woman, Part II: Visual Presentation and Interpretation
Having thrown out the idea of identifying with a race in part I, I feel I should make something clear: as much as I see the social construct of race to be problematic, I am not interested in ripping race away from other people. I know that others identify with race for reactionary reasons, or …
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The Western Muslim Woman, Part I: Constructions of Race and Appropriation
I’d like to say that finals are in a couple of weeks, and though the actual testing itself will not be keeping me from this blog (I can’t study even if I try) the number of research papers due by the end certainly will. Entries until mid-December may be uncharacteristically infrequent or brief. Lately I’ve …
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the fatal feminist 