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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]

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.

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Your problem is the same as anyone else - inability to imagine that someone may have experiences, feelings and convictions other than your own. You don't speak for all Muslim women. You are just one person in a sea of them. Islam is not an institution or an organization, and when it tried to become one, less than enviable results ensued, much like any other religion that forgot its place.[/quote]

I guess you failed to read the last paragraph of my response where I stated that sexism does exist in Muslim countries, yes there are Muslim women that are being abused, mistreated, being cheated on their rights every single day, just like there are non-muslim women being abused and killed every single day in America.  What I'm not going to accept is your simplification that these realities, events are the results of Islam. Correlation doesn't imply causation [/quote]
Of course it doesn't. What I take objection to is your statement that every single Muslim woman feels exactly the way you do.  There are Muslim women out there that are less than happy about what their birth religion has provided for them - not human practice or country-based sexist, but actual letter of law.  You imply they don't exist. That's not true. I am not begrudging you your love and devotion to Islam. If you are happy and content, good for you.  I am simply pointing out that you have no grounds to state that all Muslim women feel the way you do.[/quote]

Circle the part where I wrote every single woman feels the way I do???[/quote]
Every time you start a sentence with "Muslim women."

If you didn't mean that and reported only your own experiences without claiming they are generic to all Muslim women, then I am wrong and I apologize. [/quote]

When I shared my experiences, I said "I, as a Muslim woman". Yes, I've used the term Muslim women in general in my post sometimes because I feel like I Have met, lived with enough muslim women to know what/how they feel about some issues. Does it mean that this will be true for all millions of Muslim women?  Of course not!  We are a rainbow of sects, practices, values, beliefs... Under the umbrella of our general commonalities, we differ widely. I'm currently reading "I speak for myself' American women on being Muslim.  Picked it up from the library, if you're in Va, it's available at the fairfax county libraries.  It's an interesting read, and glimpse into the commonalities, differences and sisterhood that bond Muslim women of all walks of life who just happen to share the thread of Islam. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about muslim women. It' s 40 short essays written by  different Muslim women about what their identities mean to them, from their own perspectives[/quote]

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