WOMEN IN JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS VERSUS WOMEN IN ISLAM

Because God almighty, the Creator of the electron and the super-nova, who knows everything, knows what sort of dress is suitable for the women He created. And God almighty orders women to wear hijab.

As for women driving, the scholars who ban it (not all of them) say that it is to prevent inter-meeting of men-women and to protect the jewel of Islam (the woman) from sitting with a non-mahram man.
Woman is the source of beauty and the builder of future generations. That's why Islam protects her from any evil.

Alarmed at last week's police statistics, which revealed that in 68% of all rapes committed this year the perpetrator was from an ethnic minority, leading Muslim organisations have now formed an alliance to fight the ever-growing problem of young second and third-generation immigrants involved in rape cases against young Danish girls.

In Australia, gangs of Lebanese youths were targeting white girls - "Anglo-Celtic" in Australian parlance. In France, gangs of North African youths were gang-raping French girls...

Many secularists have criticized Qaradawi for allegedly using his fatwas and other public statements to advance reactionary beliefs. Qaradawi has supported suicide bombings, and more specifically the killing of Israeli children [3], as well as of American civilians in Iraq. Critics allege that in his book, The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam, Qaradawi supports the execution of all males who engage in homosexual acts. [4] [5] He has also stated that he "personally supports" female circumcision, albeit one of the less destructive types of female genital mutilation, [6] and that Muslims who have turned away from their faith "deserve killing" [7]. Although Qaradawi says that he believes that domestic violence is undesirable, he has supported a husband's light beating of a disobedient wife [8]. In addition, Qaradawi also made some unequivocal statements about secular democracy: "Secularism may be accepted in a Christian society but it can never enjoy a general acceptance in an Islamic society." [9], and "Since Islam is a comprehensive system of `Ibadah (worship) and Shari`ah (legislation), the acceptance of secularism means abandonment of Shari`ah, a denial of the Divine guidance and a rejection of Allah's injunctions.".
In the same line, on the relationship between universal human rights (as laid down by a human vote) and on the shari'ah (as believed to be the exact instructions of Mohammed) he states: "the Shari`ah cannot be amended to conform to changing human values and standards, rather, it is the absolute norm to which all human values and conduct must conform".

Qaradawi has been attacked by all sides of the Islamic ideology spectrum for his vision of "moderate" Islam. Qaradawi during elections in 2002 in Bahrain, released a fatwa allowing women, especially those past their child-bearing years, as candidates in municipal elections. A Saudi scholar quickly responded that this was illegal under his interpretation of Islamic law.
Qaradawi also urged the Taliban to reconsider its decision to tear down the Buddha statues in Afghanistan in 2001. He was quickly criticized for supporting "idol worship". However upon meeting with leaders from the Taliban he changed his position and praised the act of the destruction of the statues. [10]
Qaradawi's vision of moderate Islam is one that in his own words "seeks balance between intellect and the heart, between religion and the world, between spirituality and materialism and between individualism and the group."
Some Muslims (such as Salafis) claim Qaradawi is a heretic, deviated scholar, and wicked jurist because of his easier more facilitative opinions. Most Salafis see Qaradawi's teachings as too lax.

Proof? Or do you naively follow all what the mass media tells you?

Under the Taliban's rigid interpretation of Sharia law women can neither work or attend school -- a regulation that has bought a flurry of condemnation from the international community.
Forms of entertainment are severely restricted and television banned outright.

JALOZAI REFUGEE CAMP, Pakistan -- The head-to-toe robe that women in Afghanistan are compelled to wear by the Taliban regime is to many the most overtly sinister symbol of the absolute subjugation of that country's women. It restricts air supply, shuts out the light, inhibits movement and snuffs out individuality.
But from within the prison of their cloth cages, Afghan women are fighting back.
Using their burqas as cloaks for covert activities, a group of dedicated Afghan women is waging a secret war against the Taliban's suppression of women's rights. The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, known as RAWA, advocates a modest agenda of gender equality. In the context of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, however, it is a movement as radical and as revolutionary as any of the militant Islamic organizations America is battling in its war on terrorism.

The women of the great Iraq are worried about their dignity being destroyed in the AbuGhrib (and other) prison. They are worried about their parents, children, brothers being massacred by the evil american and british soldiers. The women of the great Iraq struggle to end the darkness of the occupation in order to live under the lights of the Shariaa, God willing.

And God almighty orders women to wear hijab.

Human have been on this earth for over 100,000 years. Now your going to tell me that in the last 700 years God told some caravan raider sitting in a cave what women are suppose to wear? Ridiculous. Why would God demand women cover their faces?

You claim women are so cherished that you will suppress their rights to protect them from men?

I guess what your saying is Muslim men are such trash, such vermin, that extraordinary circumstances must be taken to protect Muslim women from said Muslim trash. It appears your religion can't prevent your Muslim men from raping and abusing women so you have to confine them, escort them and hide their faces.

In the Christian world it's unnecessary to stoop to such disgusting behavior to protect our women. Perhaps a sign of civilization and the emergence from backwardness is the freedom given to women. When Muhammad made his rules he was making them for a backward, barbaric tribal society that believed in paganism. Judging by the way Muslims treat their women they recognize that they have, as yet, not left that environment.

Now I know what you will say; in the Christian world women are raped as well. True, they are, but in the Western world we allow women to drive, vote, move about unescorted and wear sexy clothing if they choose. It is the responsibility of the man to behave in a civilized fashion, show respect and behave honorably. This is something Muslim men are not capable of so the alternative is to suppress and restrict your women.

With regards to Muslim men and rape;
It appears that one of the greatest fears Western nations have from Muslim immigrants is rape.

Sheik Yusaf al-Qaradawi is interesting. He's a famous and contaversial Muslim scholar that is considered to be a moderate conservative. However the moderate seculars are critical of some of his fatwas and public statements.

It is not a religion for a civilized world.

I would believe the mass media well before I would believe someone trying to defend his religious dogma.

This is nonsense. If you want respect you should give honest answers. Living under the "lights of Shariaa" will offer the women of Iraq less freedom than they had under Saddam Hussein.

Your answer justifying polygamy is nothing more than an endorsement of my response as to why you suppress women. Muslim men cannot control their sexual appetite so the only alternative was polygamy. Again you recognize that in the Muslim world only the men's appetite and desires are important, not the women's.

Lastly, let me say that in the Muslim world I'm sure there are many secular Muslim monogamist who feel about women's rights as do the Western countries.

They show acceptance and tolerance of other beliefs and ideologies.

Unfortunately Muslim 1 you don't seem fit into that pattern. You display the ugly side of Islam. You support Shari'a and, I suppose, the execution of Muslims who leave their religion for another, such as Christianity. I suspect you also support the killing of anyone who criticizes or make fun of Muhammad. I suspect you believe the stoning of adulterer's is good and cutting off the hands of thieves is proper.

You, and the fanatics of Muslim religion, still live in the days of Muhammad, the days of the primitive barbaric tribal societies.

That's why I'll be honest with you. Yes, I support the Noble Shariaa. Yes, I support the execution of apostates (who persists in their disbelief).... .. there is no doubt that the stoning of adulterers and cutting off the hands of thieves are good things...

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While I am quoting from various HOLY BOOKS of the three different religions, readers of able2know have the will to listen and see the differences between these three religions from their HOLY BOOKS, The Quraan, The Bible and The Talmud.


The Quran severely condemned this heinous practice

Quraan (16:59)
"When news is brought to one of them of the birth of a female child, his face darkens and he is filled with inward grief. With shame does he hide himself from his people because of the bad news he has had! Shall he retain her on contempt or bury her in the dust? Ah! what an evil they decide on?"

It has to be mentioned that this sinister crime would have never stopped in Arabia if it were not to the power of the scathing terms the Quran used to condemn this practice in various chapters (16:59, 43:17, 81:8-9).

The Quran, moreover, makes no distinction between boys and girls.

In contrast to the Bible, the Quran considers the birth of a female as a gift and a blessing from God, same as the birth of a male.

The Quran even mentions the gift of the female birth first,

" To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. He creates what he wills. He bestows female children to whomever he wills and bestows male children to whomever he wills"(42:49)




"Allah has heard and accepted the statement of the woman who pleads with you (the prophet) concerning her husband and carries her complaint to Allah, and Allah hears the arguments between both of you for Allah hears and sees all things...." (58:1).



Can you give me the sura or chapters these verses came from? I have the quran in front of me, and i will have to go through all the chapters just to fnd these verses. thank you

I am new here, and I actually read all the pages in this topic....I am a muslim, and I have learned to respect each and every post.....

I have read all the holy books, not in depth, but I have the deepest respect for all books......that is what the quran teaches me.....not what "man" taught me....

there is a big difference in what man thinks, and what the holy books, including the quran says.....

man does not necessarilily follow the holy books.....

as for the women not treated equally in Islam.....it is man that makes those rules, and says it is what Allah wishes....

we all know that women was always treated as second to man....not only in religion, but in general.....especially today.......just don't look at women being treated poorly in a relgious point of view......

it is culture not religion that treats women poorly.....

i am treated with great respect among my muslim brothers, and so does all the other women......

god never told those muslims to fly the planes in the twin towers, it was man....for the sake of revenge, power, and money.....

i know that i will be "attacked" for what I said.... and i await for the responses.........

by the way, yes islam had alot of wars and bloodshed during the time of its start, try and remember that war started before that.......

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And God almighty orders women to wear hijab.

Did he say what colour? What material? Where to buy it? You clearly have no idea how absurd this sounds to western ears Muslim1