Reply to terrorist attack in Paris

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "terrorist attack in Paris "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

OK. This may not be the place, but since you wonder why some of us distrust Muslima so, I'll get into it briefly. Just one example.  Muslima said "women are equal in Islam." No elaboration, no context, nothing more. As you suggest now, several of us started pointing out Muslim divorce laws, inheritance rights, marital property and custody rights, value of a woman's testimony in financial courts, and that these things are in the Quran to various extents and practiced to various extents in all countries with sharia law. Three pages later, Muslima says, "Oh, I didn't mean western linear ideas of equality, which involve equality of legal rights, instead I meant the Muslim idea of equality of responsibilities, and you all should have known that from the start."  A minor issue is that it felt like dawwah, and several people pointed that out. The main issue is, it felt very deceptive, because I venture to guess that 95% of her readers had no clue about women's rights in Islam as opposed to the western idea of legal equality we all grew up with here. I'm also pretty sure that Muslima knew very well that 95% of her readers grew up with western ideas of legal equality and had no clue what she really meant about women being equal. So anyway, we did what you said, which is to point out these aspects of sharia law, but at the end of the day (and after many similar examples) many of us from those threads don't trust her and are more than used to challenging her. You're seeing that on this thread.[/quote]
The poster who coined the term "linear ideas of equality" is not Muslima, it's another Muslim chick obsessed with getting "major media outlets" to write about Islamophobia. Since we've heard crickets about that, I'm assuming it went the way of the holiday hangover.  She's the one who posted nonsense about slavery, concubines, equality etc., and it was I, the educated kaffirah and the wife of a Saudi Arab Muslim (and a couple of others) who took special pleasure in taking her arguments apart.

But that wasn't Muslima.  Just for accuracy's sake. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics