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And if the wife was evil enough to throw thorns in the Prophets path so his feet would be cut and if she wanted him death, it should follow that all women held lofty positions of right and privilege in pre-islamic Arabia? Is this your persuasive argument?  Her husband completely supported her in his own view so she was simply supporting her husband's position against the Prophet.

Nice try disparaging Islam again.[/quote]
My argument is - and I think I made it very well - that not all women in pre-Islamic Arabia were wordless, right-less chattels as you tried to present.[/quote]

You have clearly been good at only one thing and that is moving the goal posts, particularly since I began quoting or referencing world renowned scholars who contradict you on several points. [b]This is sufficient proof to DCUMers[/b] that you had an agenda all along, to disparage Islam by publishing misleading or false information.

If very few women, such as those of upper class primarily ( khadija) enjoyed some status, but overall the condition for women pre Islam was perilous, DCUMers should be asking themselves why you would feel the need to continually draw attention to the privileged few. By drawing attention to the very few privileged women, did you hope to dissuade the unknowing public from learning that Islam did indeed elevate the status of women? It appears that was your agenda.

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Is it? Have you asked them?

Maybe you should post a poll or something to see exactly how your remarks have been received on DCUM.  I think your reputation here shines brightly..but only in your own mind.   Why not let the women of DCUM speak for themselves?[/quote]

OK, I'll bite. I'm a woman who posts on DCUM. I'm not the PP who quotes Dr. Ahmed. However, I find  the quote from Dr. Ahmed very convincing in establishing that at least some women before Mohammed had many more rights concerning marriage and divorce than after Mohammed. It doesn't look like PP challenged the existence of these women, she just quibbled with details like the source of the threatening quotes (Mohammed or God) and so on.

The definition of an "apologist" is "one who writes in defense of faith." For that reason, I'd be less inclined, not more inclined, to trust a Muslim historian. Unless, as in the case of Dr. Ahmed, it wasn't apologetics at all but instead a contrarian view. I definitely don't trust academics for hire, whether they're writing about Islam or climate change.[/quote]

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