The Biggest Lie You've Been Told About the Oppression Of Muslim Women

[ellenrr]

Over the weekend, prolific writer Joyce Carol Oates joined the fray of those who characterize Islam as inherently evil or misogynist with a series of rapidly criticized tweets indicting Islam for the rape of women in Egypt. Yet again, Islam is essentialized, demonized, and stereotyped as a violent and misogynistic faith, one from which Muslim women need to be saved. But no matter the rhetoric within which it shrouds itself, make no mistake: this is Islamophobia, a form of racism, and it does nothing to solve the problems of violence against women and patriarchal domination in general, because Islam is not the cause.


http://www.policymic.com/articles/53783/the-biggest-lie-you-ve-been-told-about-the-oppression-of-muslim-women

[William769]

1. If Islam is not the cause in the Oppression Of Muslim Women

Then what is? I'm all ears.

[Nitram]

2. Rapists and misogynists...

...exist in every society. They are not more prevalent in Islamic cultures. If a Catholic priest rapes a young boy, does that mean Christianity is the cause? If an atheist rapes someone, is his atheism the cause?

[Neoma]

3. From what I understand, the oppression of women wasn't part of Islam at first at all.

It happened in a, "I'm so rich, I can afford to keep my wife indoors all day." way, and after awhile, poor men followed suit to make themselves look better.

[William769]

6. Apparently I misunderstood the question (wouldn't be the first time.

So I will just bow out of the conversation gracefully.

[libodem]

5. I think the West has been whipped up into a frenzy

Trying to get the head scarves off of those poor women.

[JI7]

9. those people would oppress women if they were christian or atheist

people do bad things and they will use things like religion as a reason/excuse to do it.

[pipoman]

4. Yeah it's all a big lie

that women in countries with Islamic rule are not equal they actually enjoy equal freedom and rights as the men in those societies, eh?

[LanternWaste]

14. Post hoc ergo prompter hoc?

Post hoc ergo prompter hoc?

[pipoman]

15. laudator temporis acti?

laudator temporis acti?

[LanternWaste]

16. I do not think that means what you wishes it did.

I do not think that means what you wishes it did. Try again, and this time, with rational thought...

[pipoman]

17. No, it means exactly what I know it means...I can come up with something else...let's see

Hmmm...oh...'people with no calender, dredging up 3 year old, long forgotten threads have no life....'...same could be said for 4 month old threads....

I know some hereabouts are just challenged...par for the course and all that....

[LanternWaste]

19. Again, use of rational thought rather than cowering behind petulant implication is requested.

Again, use of rational thought rather than cowering behind petulant implication is requested, regardless of what you may allege to know meaning of, or the irrelevancy of calendar dates...

Par for the course, indeed.

[pipoman]

20. Why do you repeat yourself in every post?

Repeating oneself and dredging up year old posts could be symptoms of a larger problem....

[Democracyinkind]

7. Tahir Square rapes prove that the problem encompasses more than just religious nuts.

Search for "Tahir Groping" ... It's certainly not confined to jihadist nuts. It's more about sexual repression in a society - in which Islam arguably plays a role (which shouldn't be unfamiliar to us, thinking of the past).

[CanonRay]

8. Can women now drive in Saudi Arabia?

Fill me in on when that happened? Can they appear in public alone? Missed that one too.

[JI7]

10. maybe not in saudi arabia, but they do in other countries including the united states

if it was part of islam for women to not appear alone or not drive wouldn't that apply regardless of where they lived ?

[CanonRay]

11. Marte Deborah Dalelv, Alleged Norwegian Rape Victim, Sentenced To 16 Months Jail In Dubai

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/marte-deborah-dalelv-sentenced-norwegian-rape-dubai_n_3624867.html


Yeah, real enlightened religion. Not that fundamentalist Christianity is much better.

[clarice]

12. For the life of me...

I cannot understand the "down playing" of the horrible abuse many women
are subjected to in Middle Eastern countries. Is it because they have different
skin color? I hope not. If the women in Ireland where subjected to this...all
hell would break loose. Something is very fishy about all of this.

[Shankapotomus]

13. It would be an interesting experiment

to ask some Muslim women who maintain Islam is not oppressive to them, how they would feel about defending the rights of Western women to drive, to wear a bikini in public, to breast feed in public, etc.. the way Western women interested in women's rights defend their rights to choose an Islamic code of behavior.

Do they think Western women should be compelled by law or religion to be more modest? One may not feel oppressed but still be capable of oppressing others themselves.

[Catieee]

18. rational

this is crazy