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Women in the Quran

So true Eorl. Even though the Bible and Torah and Quran all are backward and barbaric, except for rare cases it is only the muslims that you see living under the literal interpretation. There you see entire nations hobbled buy ancient superstition.

mesquite wrote:

At the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, one of the people for whom i worked was Evelyne Accad, a Lebanese woman working in the United States, who wrote extensively on that topic. Her area of expertise was French literature, and in particular, literature of the middle east and north Africa (a great many Muslims in those areas speak French as their principle European language). Veil of Shame: The Role of Women in the Contemporary Fiction of North Africa and the Arab World was the book she was working on when i knew her, and it was that book, and conversations with Miss Accad which lead me to make a detailed study of the Islamic and Arab worlds.

It is no news to quote a non-muslim writing a book about Islam..

Just like the Pope who on noticing Islam taking many christian converts started quoting a 12th Century christian monk to talk about Islam..

mesquite wrote:

So true Eorl. Even though the Bible and Torah and Quran all are backward and barbaric, except for rare cases it is only the muslims that you see living under the literal interpretation. There you see entire nations hobbled buy ancient superstition.

Oh, yes a religion that put an end to pagan customs, such as burying their daughters alive out of shame is backwards.

Raul-7 wrote:

mesquite wrote:

So true Eorl. Even though the Bible and Torah and Quran all are backward and barbaric, except for rare cases it is only the muslims that you see living under the literal interpretation. There you see entire nations hobbled buy ancient superstition.

Oh, yes a religion that put an end to pagan customs, such as burying their daughters alive out of shame is backwards.

No more backward that assembling a harem of rich widows, and finishing the whole affair by marrying a nine-year-old girl.

Billy Graham, the eminent Christian evangelist has recognized this fact: "Christianity cannot compromise on the question of polygamy. If present-day Christianity cannot do so, it is to its own detriment. Islam has permitted polygamy as a solution to social ills and has allowed a certain degree of latitude to human nature but only within the strictly defined framework of the law. Christian countries make a great show of monogamy, but actually they practice polygamy. No one is unaware of the part mistresses play in Western society. In this respect Islam is a fundamentally honest religion, and permits a Muslim to marry a second wife if he must, but strictly forbids all clandestine amatory associations in order to safeguard the moral probity of the community."

Unlike the barbaric West, women getting raped is very uncommon in the Islamic world...

In Islam, women were given the right to vote 1300 years ago. Barbaric West couldn't even imagine giving women such right 100 years ago...

Shows that mere technological avancements does not make a region civilized.

In August 2004, Iran's Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing "acts incompatible with chastity".

The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.

Atefeh reportedly had no access to legal counsel and her death sentence was upheld by a Supreme Court of conservative mullahs. Haji Rezaii, the religious judge, was reportedly so incensed with Atefeh's "sharp tongue" during the trial that he travelled to Tehran to convince the mullahs of the Supreme Court to uphold the death sentence. According to Amnesty International, it was reported that she suffered from psychological illness, both during the trials and at the time she committed the crime. She was publicly hanged from a crane in Neka, Iran, in August 2004, the noose being applied by the lower court judge himself. Amnesty International, as well as human rights organizations from the international community at large, declared her killing to be a crime against humanity and against children of the world.