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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:18:14 -0000
From: "ishaqzahid" <ishaqzahid@yahoo.com>
The following is taken from Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) email circulation.
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The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "The best among you are those who treat their wives in the best manner."
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 217
Narrated Aisha - "(The Prophet Muhammad) never beat anyone with his hand, neither a woman nor a servant."
Sahih Muslim, Hadith 1082
SEE ALSO:
SUBJUGATION OF WOMEN IS NOT QURANIC, SCHOLAR SAYS
Shelley Widhalm, Washington Times, 4/21/04
http://www.washingtontimes.com/culture/20040420-104554-8283r.htm
To westernize the Middle East while abandoning Islam will only cause suspicion among Muslims, and do little to bring about political and
social change, one Islamic scholar says. "Many of the social and cultural practices of Muslim societies have little or nothing to do with Islam,
specifically as embodied in the teachings of the Koran," Asma Barlas said in a lecture last month at the Library of Congress.
The teachings of the Koran support egalitarianism, not patriarchy in any form, though the Koran recognizes patriarchy's historical existence, said
Ms. Barlas, 54, associate professor and chairwoman of the department of politics at New York's Ithaca College.
The West should engage Islam on Islam's own terms and not attempt to secularize Islam "or make it over in the Western image of a completely
privatized religion," said Ms. Barlas in her March 26 lecture, "Globalizing Equality: Muslim Women, Theology and Feminism…"
Muslim women are not a homogeneous group and are not any more subjugated and oppressed than non-Muslim women, said Hibba Abugideiri,
assistant professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University.
"Women all over the world, including the West, are relatively less privileged than men in terms of their status, access to esources ... and even in
their legal rights," she said. "No, the Koran does not subjugate Muslim women. If it did, would so many women, some of whom converted of their
own volition, continue to practice what would amount to be a misogynist revelation? This is simply illogical and belittles the intelligence of half the
1.2 billion Muslim believers in the world…"
From: "ishaqzahid" <ishaqzahid@yahoo.com>
The following is taken from Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) email circulation.
---------------------------------------------------------
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "The best among you are those who treat their wives in the best manner."
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 217
Narrated Aisha - "(The Prophet Muhammad) never beat anyone with his hand, neither a woman nor a servant."
Sahih Muslim, Hadith 1082
SEE ALSO:
SUBJUGATION OF WOMEN IS NOT QURANIC, SCHOLAR SAYS
Shelley Widhalm, Washington Times, 4/21/04
http://www.washingtontimes.com/culture/20040420-104554-8283r.htm
To westernize the Middle East while abandoning Islam will only cause suspicion among Muslims, and do little to bring about political and
social change, one Islamic scholar says. "Many of the social and cultural practices of Muslim societies have little or nothing to do with Islam,
specifically as embodied in the teachings of the Koran," Asma Barlas said in a lecture last month at the Library of Congress.
The teachings of the Koran support egalitarianism, not patriarchy in any form, though the Koran recognizes patriarchy's historical existence, said
Ms. Barlas, 54, associate professor and chairwoman of the department of politics at New York's Ithaca College.
The West should engage Islam on Islam's own terms and not attempt to secularize Islam "or make it over in the Western image of a completely
privatized religion," said Ms. Barlas in her March 26 lecture, "Globalizing Equality: Muslim Women, Theology and Feminism…"
Muslim women are not a homogeneous group and are not any more subjugated and oppressed than non-Muslim women, said Hibba Abugideiri,
assistant professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University.
"Women all over the world, including the West, are relatively less privileged than men in terms of their status, access to esources ... and even in
their legal rights," she said. "No, the Koran does not subjugate Muslim women. If it did, would so many women, some of whom converted of their
own volition, continue to practice what would amount to be a misogynist revelation? This is simply illogical and belittles the intelligence of half the
1.2 billion Muslim believers in the world…"