What is an Islamic Feminist? I saw a woman today on the news who identified herself as one.?

Question

To my thinking there isn't anything that resembles feminism in the Islamic faith but this may be a new movement I am not aware of.

Answer 1

That was the lady on the CBS evening news, I'm sorry that I did not get her name. She is an Islamic, a feminist, and an author and spoke very intelligently on behalf of her people and what she believes.
In many parts of the mideast, women are very oppressed. For example, there are cases where young women who have been raped are intimidated by family members to commit suicide to keep from shaming their family, or husbands will throw acid on their wives faces because the women had the audacity to make eye contact with a strange man. Those Burkhas that some wear are supposedly to keep "angels" from being sexually attracted to the women. The lady to whom you refer would be risking her life in her homeland to speak out for women's right as she does.

Answer 2

This wrong term in Islam
Islam clearly teaches that a woman is a full-person under the law, and is the spiritual equal of a male. Also, according to Islamic Law, women have the right to own property, operate a business and receive equal pay for equal work. Women are allowed total control of their wealth, they cannot be married against their will and they are allowed to keep their own name when married. Additionally, they have the right to inherit property and to have their marriage dissolved in the case of neglect or mistreatment. Also, Islam does not consider woman an "evil temptress", and thus does not blame woman for the "original sin". Women in Islam participate in all forms of worship that men participate in. Actually, the rights that Islam gave to women over 1400 years ago were almost unheard of in the West until the 1900s. Less than fifty years ago in England and America, a woman could not buy a house or car without the co-signature of her father or husband!

Islam is winning Western women admirers despite hostile media coverage It is even more ironic that most British converts should be women, given the widespread view in the west that Islam treats women poorly. In the United States, women converts outnumber men by four to one, and in Britain make up the bulk of the estimated 10, 000 to 20, 000 converts, forming part of a Muslim community of 1 to 1.5 million.

Answer 3

I think an Islamic feminist is a woman who acts and has attidude and uses clothes in line with Islamic teaching.It is not a new movement but a movement back to a right Islamic behaviour.Women in Islamic teaching have the same rights and obligations with men although in nature has a slight difference.Women have wombs but men will be a leader of the family and wife should assist her husband.Woman is the first teacher for her children. before they went to schools.Heaven is on the foot sole of mother.Children should obey firstly to their mother and then to their father .All women who are going out of their homes in line with holy Qur'an should wear a long clothes so their body from their toes up to their hairs should be covered.Their hairs should be veiled.Islamic teaching prohibites woman wearing man's clothes or wearing very tight clothes..

Answer 4

I saw her on television tonight as well. Her message was the type that more believers in Islam need to get across when their fellow believers commit barbaric acts. Unfortunately, there is not enough of this type of coverage so the view many of us in the West have of Islam is of a barbaric and brutal religion. She actually chastised her fellow Muslims for taking the Pope's message out of context. I say "Way to Go" to her for her opinion which was actually intelligent and not based on rhetoric from the clerics.

Why does it seem that most of the protests and barbaric acts from Muslim protestors are always at the prompting of their clerics? Can't they think for themselves? What is the hidden agenda that these clerics have?

As to the question, I think Islamic feminist is someone believing in Islam who is also a proponent or activist for women's rights. I presume that she is pushing for more rights in her religion or in Islamic states where such rights seem non-existent.

Answer 5

Muslim feminists have been around for a while. They just don't receive the press that Muslim extremists receive. That's a shame, because the media does a great job to help form the opinions of many. I'm glad you had the chance to see her on the news.

Answer 6

I saw her too. I was impressed. I think it shocked the Muslim world though.

It's called womens rights in America. She knows the response to the Pope is evil. She tells Muslims to read the Popes whole speach. It isn't as bad as they are making it to be.

Answer 7

Her life has been threatened because she claims both her faith and her freedom as a female... brave, brave, brave.

Remember, no so long ago there was no such thing as a Christian Feminist either... times change... so do we.

Answer 8

I know several Islamic feminists. Don't buy the stereotype you see on television.

Answer 9

Women's lib, Islamic style: but it goes against the teaching of the Koran

Answer 10

Yes, they are women who are speaking out against the anti-female views of the Muslim societies. I suspect they do not love long in certain countries.