I think we've all experienced the frustration of knowing what we mean and feel but lacking the words needed to explain ourselves. Sometimes it's a result of too much depth and complexity in our own minds for us to organize, and especially if we are particularly disorganized people. But in some cases, it is because …
Category: misconceptions
Disregarded Verses: Women as Examples for Men
They are actually proclaimed in the Qur'an as examples for people, but to this day they are considered to have been meant for only women when believing men should also accept them as an ideal to strive toward. Shoshie, Jewish feminist, writes,This shit happens a lot in Jewish commentaries. Women are erased. Exemptions for women …
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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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Missing the Point: Slavery
Slavery is against Islam.The absurd idea that somehow slavery is not against Islam isn't as much a misconception amongst non-Muslims as it is amongst Muslims. Or more likely, it is a misconception amongst non-Muslims, but few want to make accusations when slavery is rampant in their own history. In my experience, both times a non-Muslim …
So apparently, the Prophet chartered protection to Christians.
Quick, someone send this to al-Quaeda!Just kidding, terrorists wouldn't care that's why they're terrorists."This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them. Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by Allah! …
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Figments of Patriarchal Imagination: 72 Virgins
After I had finished laughing at the desperately fabricated concept of the 72 virgins and the bigoted men who illustriously invented the idea for their own sexual satisfactions, there was a feeling of sorrow and heartbreak for such a beautiful thing to be twisted and corrupted and made revoltingly obscene. And there is also rage--as …
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The People of Sodom
This post has been moved here: https://thefatalfeminist.com/2018/05/10/the-rapists-of-sodom/
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