Women in Islam, the prophet of doom and the truth?

Question

Now to start with I am a Muslim, a fellow on yahoo answer asked me to read the part of the book the prophet of doom related to women in Islam and I did.

I found some of the things the guy is saying in his book as misleading and plain wrong and I would like to know your opinion.

I will start with the last one he used and I will go up the list. I will only deal with what he is saying from the Quran because I have read the Quran many times and familiar with it.

Here is the first one according

24:6 “And for those who launch a charge against their wives, accusing them, but have no witnesses or evidence, except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing four times) by Allah that he is the one speaking the truth.”

The book had it with no other comments related to it so you have all what is in the book related to it

Now as I see it the verse by itself is showing that Islam looks at women as a lower grade than men.

Here is my point, the verse with 3 verses directly after it

[6] And for those who accuse their wives, but have no
witnesses except themselves, let the testimony of one
of them be four testimonies (i.e. testifies four
times) by Allâh that he is one of those who speak the
truth.
[7] And the fifth (testimony) (should be) the invoking
of the Curse of Allâh on him if he be of those who
tell a lie (against her).
[8] But it shall avert the punishment (of stoning to
death) from her, if she bears witness four times by
Allâh, that he (her husband) is telling a lie.
[9] And the fifth (testimony) should be that the Wrath
of Allâh be upon her if he (her husband) speaks the
truth.

Now my question is

1-Do you think that the author mislead his readers by just listing the verse alone?
2- if the answer is yes why would you think he needs to do that if Islam is that evil?. I mean why does he has to mislead people

You can answer intelligently or you can bash it is up to you. But if you are going to bash please remember to answer the questions in the process.

If you missed your chance for bashing and the question is closed, just e-mail it me and I will post it again so you can have your bashing chance

God bless

Answer 1

this is wat jalal abualrub has 2 say when he debated wid craig winn the author of prophet of doom:-
Winn does not speak Arabic, so how can he possibly know what the oldest Islamic resources say? This is especially the case since in my debate with him, Winn claimed that no more than 500 people can today understand the original Quran. I asked him, “If this is so, how then did you translate the Quran?” Translation is a step beyond understanding, as you know, hopefully, so when he denied he translated the Quran, it exposes how he lies without any shame.

First, Winn used the word 'queer' to explain something in the Quran, but that word is not found in any available English translation of the Quran. Therefore, since Winn does not speak Arabic, where did he get this word from? Who gave it to him, if he got it from someone else? Is it one of the only 500 people who can understand the Quran today?

Second, Winn is attacking a book that no one can understand, except 500 people according to him. Thus, why is he so hostile towards Muhammad and his ‘original’ Quran, if the book we have today is not the book Muhammad came with? Winn’s enmity should then be directed at what Muslims today think is the Quran; he should attack modern-day Muslims and modern-day Quran, not Muhammad or his original Quran.

Winn does not make any sense. How can you seriously think that this man, who speaks NOT a word of Arabic, has any knowledge on Islam and its original resources when all of Islam’s original resources are found in Arabic? He may wish to claim to be an expert on what he found written in English about Islam, but not an expert on the Islamic original resources which he cannot possibly read! This is absurd.

Answer 2

Islam was the first religion to warn people about falsely accusing chaste women of immorality, and order punishment for those who do so.
"And those who accuse chaste women, and produce not four witnesses, flog them with eighty stripes, and reject their testimony forever. They indeed are the Faasiqoon (liars, rebellious, disobedient to Allaah)”

[al-Noor 24:4]

And in the aya you mentioned, it basically says that if the woman swears that she is innocent and that her husband is lying, the whole thing is canceled out, and if she is lying, then Allah will know and punish her.

Islam, like anything else, can have its' elements taken out of context. It's their loss! The majority of the world now days doesn't bestow ANY rights for women who are falsely accused of lewdness/adultery/etc. On the contrary, this is considered ENTERTAINING and people think nothing of slandering anyone they see "fit" to slander. Tabloids are a #1 example of this. Imagine, there is an actual INDUSTRY for putting women down. People pay money to see it, and don't seem to care whether the facts are true or false. The lack of respect for women now days is sickening and it's pretty ridiculous that folks would point the finger at Islamic religion as a "violation of womens rights" when Islam is the only religion to give women rights in the first place!

Answer 3

GOD Laws are made of three Books: The Old Testament, The new Testament and Quran as a conclusion all originated from the middle east. How can you understand GOD LAWS with out reading GOD Conclusion?
Islam gave women the right to divorce husband for his bad looks beside other things.
Islam established the term Human Rights in areas like social classes quality, women rights

, abolishment of slavery where in past the world did not recognize any human rights

Answer 4

Yvonne Ridley who is a British famous journalist thought that Islam is against women rights but when she explored and studies this particular point in details she converted to Islam and devoted her self for its cause. Visit her site to read her story because she know better than us about it:

http://www.yvonneridley.org

Answer 5

Honestly i don't get you.
i can see that muslim men do look down on their wives but i don't know their motives for doing so.

Answer 6

huh? what are you talking about?