God loves not the utterance of loud unpleasant speech except from one who is being oppressed. And God is Hearing, Knowing. (Qur’an [An-Nisa] 4:148) *cough* Awwwkward.
Category: feminism
The radical notion that women are people.
“Sisters in the back, quiet down please.”
A Free Radical produced an excellent post a week ago titled "Some other reasons you won't find me at the masjid" --which I highly recommend. I do regularly visit the mosque, and I must, because I have plans to reclaim it (or else build my own) but the post, in conjunction with woodturtle's "keeping our …
The Qur’an Is Blatantly Anti-Patriarchal
This entire post adds commentary to Asma Barlas' book "Believing Women in Islam": Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an. I highly recommend it. Reverence Your God Who created you from a single person Created, of similar nature, its mate and from them twain scattered like seeds countless men and women;-- Reverence God, through Whom ye …
Marital Rape
About a week ago an article written by a good friend of mine that condemned deadly and immoral and quite frankly disgusting invalidation of the seriousness of rape in certain situations sparked a discussion when linked by another good friend. The discussion was nothing short of alarming. Considering that the article itself denounced the intolerable …
Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: Hind bint Utbah
Actually, you have probably heard of Hind bint Utbah. She's quite famous--or rather infamous--for allegedly eating the liver of Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib during the Battle of Uhud, a battle in which she was fighting against the Muslims. Because of her cruel and violent acts against Muslims before her conversion, many Muslims today challenge her …
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The Nonconsensual Sexualization of Unintending Young Women
At the age of 10 I had a way of walking I'm certain had been with me since I first learned to walk. There is nowhere I could have learned it, and I hadn't given it any thought to have learned it in the first place. But it was called to my attention at 10, …
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Discrediting Feminists
If you haven't heard already, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf has confessed that originally, in traditional Islam, women are allowed to lead men in prayer.When I wrote a paper on female prayer, because this was an issue a few years ago, years ago when I was a student in Mauritania, I remembered in a book that Ibn …
the fatal feminist 