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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]Women in the Muslim world desperately need the voice of Western progressives and feminists. But when it comes to finding excuses to neutralize critical questions about Islamic violence, Western progressives seem endlessly creative. Known by an increasing number of women as "Excuses for Abuses," these include:

[b]Criticizing Islam is racist and reveals "intolerance," "bigotry" and "Islamophobia."[/b]

For the record, Islam is not a race. Moreover, if you discuss the violent and misogynous teachings of Islam, it does not mean that you hate or are intolerant of Muslims, just of violence and misogyny.

[b]"What you are seeing is not the real Islam; Islam has been hijacked."[/b]

The problem with this view is that Islam actually does teach that a woman is worth less than a man. Many teachings in Islam are misogynous -- from wearing veils; requiring four male witness to prove rape; issues of inheritance; court testimony; rules of marriage; rules of divorce and remarriage; a man's "right" to marry up to four women and then beat them, and so on.

If Western progressives an I d feminists care at all about their Muslim sisters, they need to protest against the actual roots of this injustice: these Islamic teachings.[/quote]

OMG, this again!!!!! I have not read/followed this discussion and just clicked on the last page to see this ridiculous statement. Muslim women do not want western feminism. I appreciate your concerns that we are 2nd class citizens, but do know that those concerns are only existent in your mind. As a Muslim woman living a muslim life,  believing in my faith 100%, I have never felt I was a second class citizen, I have never felt men were worth more than me. Why on earth are you blatantly making these ridiculous statements? Whenever women have been treated as less than,  whenever women have gotten less than they deserved, it has never been because of Islam, to the contrary, it has always been because of a lack of Islam. I do not know of any institution, any religion, any organization that treats women, loves women, adore women, give a higher status to women than Islam. I feel blessed, lucky, happy to be a Muslim woman every single day of my life  alhamdulillah( praised be to God)  for Islam.

Some Muslim women make it into our headlines like Yousufzai, or Nobel Prize winner Tawakkol Karman who all clearly stated Islam as a core driver of her work, and who proudly wears her headscarf.  Who are you to tell them that they are 2nd class citizens? The vast majority of Muslim women remain unheard of, working on the ground every single day, inspired by their faith to work on women's issues, rights ect. I encounter a lot of inspirational women who are strong, vocal, and fighting for their rights. None of them felt that their faith was at odds with their conviction that they, as women, should be equal citizens.

There is a particular breed of internet troll whose favoured technique is to take selective quotes from the Quran or to answer any article on Islam with “women get less in inheritance, you need the testimony of 2 men, yadi yadi yada" Yet this cherry-picking proves nothing, you are wasting your time! 
My intention is not to detract from the very real problems suffered by many Muslim women, or to argue that sexism in Muslim countries does not exist. It does exist. My intention, and this may be too nuanced for the trolls who I can already hear queuing up, is to point out that Islam, women'rights, islamic feminism,  are not mutually exclusive. Stop oppressing Muslim women by continuing to spread this false narrative! You are really insufferable.

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