I have no children. That means I have disposable income. I go through $2,000 a month, not including necessities like charitable contributions, rent, groceries, or fuel. (In fact, I'm a little embarrassed to say that. I'm certain that there's a level of extravagance God may characterize as sinful, but I have never feigned virtue before …
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were serial rapists, who drank heavily to fuel their crimes, attacked visitors in gangs, lusted after the power of angels, knew first hand of the God/dess but refused morality and cheated and lied and thieved. And raped. Raped. Over and over. In mobs. Will religious leaders have you believe they were destroyed them for raping …
You are obligated to watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J5bDhMP9lQ
There is no doubt in my mind that the outraged attitudes of men toward rejection are sourced to entitlement, not pain, and certainly not love. However, in the likely event that anyone would plead otherwise, I am going to state outright that I would not care if my soulmate didn’t want me. “You’ve never had …
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The vast majority of Muslim men, whether from previously/currently colonized nations or otherwise, live in patriarchal cultures; the Qur’an itself addresses this, for example, when demanding to know why men have buried their daughters alive or when protecting women from accusations of adultery. However, when confronted with this reality, men pretend that they weren’t patriarchal …
On April 23rd, 2012, Mona Eltahawy wrote an article titled, “Why Do They Hate Us?” to protest the treatment of women in the Middle East. The article, featured in Foreign Policy magazine, prompted a variety of responses, ranging from admiration for the author’s courage to criticism for her portrayal of Egyptian men. In online Islamic …
Continue reading Functions of the Language Barrier as Protest in the Muslim Feminist Jihad
Perceptions of women’s power and authority in Islam range from Orientalist discourses that present the Muslim woman as an exotic, victimized, and elusive figure in need of reform, to patriarchal scholarships that confine her to a secondary, consequential role under male regulation, to Islamic feminist exegeses that seek to liberate her, and itself, from either …
the fatal feminist 