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One thing that is abundantly clear is that you have never read the book. I'm going to quote passages from her book because I have it. Not now but later when I have more time. You google and cut and paste and don't even understand what you are posting sometimes. This is because you are entirely agenda driven, islamophobia driven. Leila Ahmed has clearly stated:

"the ethical injunctions of Islam were rarely translated into enforceable laws.  Only texts that orthodox theologians, legists, and philosophers (the likes of Al-Ghazali) created were--and continue to be--regarded as the core prescriptive texts of Islam.  [b]But Ahmed also makes it clear that this intense misogyny was neither originally nor exclusively Muslim in character, but rather the consequence of a cultural negotiation between Islam and "an urban Middle East[/b] with already well-articulated misogynist attitudes and practices":
          [B]y licensing polygamy, concubinage, and easy
          divorce for men, originally allowed under
          different circumstances in a different society,
          Islam lent itself to being interpreted as
          endorsing and giving religious sanction to a
          deeply negative and debased conception of women. "

The vast majority of scholars, not only Leila Ahmed, simply stand in direct contradiction to your opinions, largely based on google research and fueled by intense hate and gross misconception. [/quote]
Leila Ahmed was quite clear about the demonization of Pre-Islamic Arabia, and romantization of improvements that Islam brought to women. If you have any questions about her characterization of these periods, or her comparison of Khadija and Aisha, take it up with her. Or, if you think I faked these paragraphs, do let us know.

[quote=Anonymous]
I look forward to helping the many writers, Imams, Islamic organizations, and nonMuslim media outlets I have now contacted to address the kind of islamophobia your posts exemplify.

After the articles are published, I will post links to them on DCUM with Jeff's permission. You have certainly taken up a lot of my time but it has not been wasted. I should thank you for being the catalyst for such a large scale effort now by so many people to address the problem of islamophobia. [/quote]
No one is scared of you. Call the UN if you want.

Let's recap how effective you were here, in this little corner of the world. Not one reader of DCUM found your arguments convincing or well-reasoned (if I'm wrong, someone correct me).  Not one reader of DCUM left these threads with a better or more favorable idea of Islam because of you.  If you wanted to be a good representative for your religion, you failed.  You behave poorly and you argue poorly.  Is anyone reading these threads more impressed by Islam because of you? What do you think?

And all the Islamic organizations and imams in the world - hell, the entire corps of Al-Azhar and King Saud religious studies graduates - won't be able to do anything at all about Islamophobia until there are still Muslims out there who lie about their religion's rules, and call people who disagree with them one-toothed mothers of drug addicts with STD problems. [/quote]

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