Sometimes I imagine Medina, a city graced with the presence of our beloved Prophet whose pure heart received the Revelations of God. Medina, open to the Heavens. Did the average woman, walking along the busy market streets, or perhaps the quiet roads, stop to stare up at the sky--overcome with tears for the Revelations from …
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Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: The Rights of Girls
When Umm Salama, a woman famous for her intelligence and sound judgment and argumentative nature, asked the Prophet “Why are men mentioned in the Qur’an and why are we not?” she did not only challenge the pre-Islamic customs that were abrasive to women and had not yet been overturned by the unfinished Revelations, but almost …
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Tired Arguments
Aside from destructively dismissing the reality that Muslim women are oppressed at all, the excruciatingly fatuous tendencies of patriarchy apologists include resorting to name-dropping famed scholars, as well as an egotistical inclination to believe that these apologists are correct in their often oppressive interpretations simply due to being part of the visible majority, a sentiment …
Burying Our Daughters Alive
In reference to Arabs burying their infant daughters alive pre-Islam,Now they bury daughters in clothing, culture, rules, and with lashing tongues... I think I'd rather be buried in dirt and be done with it. --CoolredDiscuss.the fatal feminist © Nahida S. N.
Oh My God. Shut Up About the Christians.
So you know what's annoying? When I am in the middle of a debate with a Muslim man, and I am telling him his projections interpretations are sexist and unIslamic, and he begins going on about Christians and how we Muslim women are so much better off than our "Christian counterparts." Then he starts taking …
sex! and vaginas
The amazing, wonderful wood turtle published a post on sex in September last year, in which she writes the following about a friend of hers who’d gotten married: The problem was, she didn’t know what she wanted. She had never had an orgasm. (“Never? No self exploring? No boyfriend pillows?” “No.”) It makes me wonder sometimes just how misinformed …
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