Very briefly, I’d like to address the annoying and incessant reemergence of a peculiar social/unfortunately feminist phenomenon: the defining of sexual pleasure in rigid constraints and the application of these constraints to the criteria of a feminist accordingly. You may be familiar with it. Not long after Role/Reboot republished a post I had written months …
Category: Muslims
Women in Islamic History: the Unlawful Erosion of Monogamy and the Correlating Objectification of Women
After divorce or widowhood, women in the first Muslim societies married and remarried without the disparagement of social stigma. It was not until the Abbasid era, upon the conquering of immensely patriarchal cultures and the expansive harems that arose in consequence, that the contractual rights of monogamy enforced by women began to erode, and the …
On the Compatibility of Islam and Feminism: A Response to the Goatmilk Debate
I received two emails yesterday inquiring as to what I thought about the Goatmilk debate on the compatibility of Islam and feminism. Seeing as the argument of the opposition was a collection of the usual pedestrian perspectives that conclude the two are irreconcilable, I hadn’t planned on writing about what I’ve already addressed over a …
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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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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). …
Praying in Arabic
When the sun is overturned When the stars fall away When the mountains are moved When the ten-month pregnant camels are neglected When the beasts of the wild shall be mustered When the seas are boiling When the girl-child, buried alive, is asked for what crime she deserved murder, When the sky is flayed open …
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 …
the fatal feminist 