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barbarella · 03-13-2009, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by sleepy jack

Have you even read the Qu'ran? Or just...read something on the sexism in it? It teaches that woman are inferior, should subvert themselves to the will of man, deserve to be beaten for being "lewd," etc. I would agree though, sexist attitudes aren't encourage in the Qu'ran; they're openly stated.

"Men have a status above women." - 2:228

"As for those women whom you fear disobedience, admonish them, forsake them in bed, and beat them." - 4:34

"O ye who believe! Draw not near unto prayer when ye are drunken, till ye know that which ye utter, nor when ye are polluted, save when journeying upon the road, till ye have bathed. And if ye be ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have touched women, and ye find not water, then go to high clean soil and rub your faces and your hands. Lo! Allah is Benign, Forgiving". - 4:43

"Mothers shall suck their children for two whole years if the father wishes the sucking to be complete."- 2:233

"Lo! it is those who disbelieve in the Hereafter who name the angels with the names of females." - 53:27

"As for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify then confine them to the houses until death take them" - 4:15

"And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands' fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons, or their brothers or their brothers' sons or sisters' sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack vigour, or children who know naught of women's nakedness. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment." - 24:31

"Women are your fields: go, then into your fields whence you please." - 2:223

I have a feeling that what Sleepy Jack is saying can be seen whenever I venture outside. There are so many women who, not too long ago would have been comfortable to be seen outdoors without almost completely covering their faces. However, it's almost as if these women, in trying to uphold their beliefs by covering their faces, are actually upholding their husbands' and fathers' beliefs instead and in doing so lose their identities altogether, becoming "invisible". A sort of subtle way for the males to be seen as having the more authority, by the manipulation of how the female is supposed to react.