Islam gives the equal rights to women. I can mention twenties of pages on it.?

Question

My question is for so-called critics of islamic women. Are u know what markos (Ex-Philippine President) once said about women( remember he was pointing towards Mrs. Akino , his opponent) Once he said that women places are only two one in kitchen and the other is____- ( i donot mention these words, being a dishonour to women as i am a muslim. Was he ( Mr. Markos used to be a Muslim?
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Famous reformer Martin Luther does not see any benifit from a woman but bringing into the world as many children as possible. He writes.

" If they become tired or even die, that does not matter. Let them die in childbirth, that's why they are there"

Was he (Martin Luther) a Muslim man?

These are very minor examples of discrimination toward the women from them who claim to have given full rights to their women

Answer 1

The difficulties that American Muslims have had with
Islam's depiction in the U.S. news media deserve a separate,
full-scale report. In fact, we include that among our
recommendations. This report tried to identify the
misunderstandings between the news media and organized religion,
and their respective failings, in ways that might be seen as
pertinent to any faith group.

Muslims justifiably worry that the terrorist activities of
groups which call themselves Muslim have colored public opinion
strongly against all followers of Islam. The term "Muslim
terrorist" is a non sequitur, they say, because if you are truly
Muslim, you could not be a terrorist. The combination of words,
while attractive for its brevity, should be replaced by longer
but more accurate identifications. Not only that, Salam
al-Marayati, director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in
Los Angeles, noted that radicals calling themselves Buddhist,
Hindu, Jewish and Christian commit violent acts in various parts
of the world, too. "These movements are equally fanatic and
threatening, but extremism in the Muslim world receives
disproportionate alarm," he wrote in an article for USA TODAY.

Mohammed A. Siddiqi, a professor at Western Illinois University,
said the overall coverage of Islam has included notably fair
pieces in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY and
Newsweek. Siddiqi said the most upsetting mistakes occur with,
1) the indiscriminate use of "fundamentalist" for any dedicated
Muslim and, 2) the failure to distinguish between cultural
practices that are national or regional in origin and not
observed by Muslims in other countries. The New York Times was
guilty of the latter mistake in a story from France dated Jan.
11, 1993, about a Gambian woman jailed for mutilating the
genitals of two baby daughters. The news article said female
circumcision was an "age-old Muslim ritual" that "was originally
applied in Muslim countries to control women." Two
anthropologists at Princeton University, in a published letter
to the editor, wrote: "Nothing in the sacred scriptures of Islam
justifies this brutal operation, nor do most Muslims practice
it. It is found in parts of sub-Saharan Africa where Islam has
combined with local custom, as well as in non-Muslim societies
elsewhere." Abdellah Hammoudi and Lawrence Rosen, who wrote the
letter, complimented a Times column by A. M. Rosenthal which had
condemned the practice as mutilation.

The arrest of suspects in the New York World Trade Center
bombing in 1993 led to exploration in the news media of their
possible links to a radical Islamic group. Most national news
media made it clear that the New Jersey mosque in question was
an atypical Islamic center. Nevertheless, Yvonne Haddad, a
history professor at the University of Massachusetts asked to
comment on early press treatment of the story, said in an
interview with USA TODAY, "The press needs to sell stories, and
Islamic terrorism sells. There are some newspapers that do it
more carefully than others, but it keeps being used." The
bombing was a big story before any suspect was arrested, and
reams of copy would have been written on whomever was thought to
be connected to the blast. But Haddad correctly points to the
faulty generalizations that are frequently made to explain
Muslim behavior. "We don't talk about Christianity as a religion
of violence be cause there's a crazy man in Waco," she said,
referring to the then-concurrent standoff between federal
authorities and the Branch Davidian cult.

Obviously, distinctions between mainstream and unconventional
groups are important to Muslims no less than to believers in
other faiths; for that reason, among others, reporters must
educate themselves to know what differentiates one group from
another. For instance, most responsible journalists who cover
Islam's spread among African-Americans know that the Rev. Louis
Farrakhan, an outspoken militant, leads a sectarian branch
called the Nation of Islam. They also know that many black
Muslims in the United States have moved away from sectarian
Islam into orthodox practices and have been welcomed into
Islamic gatherings by foreign-born Muslims

Answer 2

gimme a break.. want to know how muslim women really are percieved and treated??

Read Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and then go here ...
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/women.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/08/24/somalia.flogging.ap/index.html

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20051224/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_honor_killings_1
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,344374,00.html

For more on women's plight in the Middle East, I would recommend starting with either Mayada by Jean Sasson or Princess. The Princess book has two others that follow along the story line, but I just could not put them down. This lady is an excellent writer and I would highly recommend these books to start you off. Jean Sasson also wrote the book "The Rape Of Kuwait" that was a real eye opener for those who believe that Hussein was not that evil.

Answer 3

If Islam gives equal rights to women, then are you saying there are actually way fewer real Muslims in the world than it looks like? The Saudi royal family is right out, for starters...

Answer 4

It's very very rare for a woman to want to have two or more husbands. On the contrary, a lot of men (non-Muslims included) have this fantasy of having more than one girl. It's the male and female nature. Men who don't want to marry more than one don't have to marry more than one. Now let's look at it from another side. If a woman has more than one husband this will mean that unless you get a DNA test, there's no way to find out who's the father of her son. Also, the mixture of different sperms is what causes many STDs. Do you want to get an STD?

Answer 5

People who say that Islam gives equal rights to women have no idea what equal rights means. Go to Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan and look at the rights of women. What a dumb statement, unless of course it is a joke.

Answer 6

Ok if not Islam then ..

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/women/long.html

Answer 7

II/223: Your women are a tilth for you (to cultivate). So go to your tilth as ye will...

Here you can clearly see how highly Islam treats women. Women in Islam are referred to as fields that are to be cultivated by man. What an honour for a Muslim woman!

IV/34: Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other.. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them.

First point to notice here is that Quran clearly states that Men are superior to women. Secondly, Islam instructs that a man should control his women through brutal violence and fear.

IV/15: (For women) If any one of your women is guilty of lewdness ...confine them until death claims them.

IV/16: (For Men) If two men among you commit indecency (sodomy) punish them both. If they repent and mend their ways, let them be. Allah is forgiving and merciful.

As you can see, for women any sort of sexual exploration is punishable by death. Whereas for a man, any form of perversion is pardoned by the all merciful Allah.

XXIV/6-7: As for those who accuse their wives but have no witnesses except themselves , let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies...

Here we see, that a husband can easily accuse his wife (or wives) and eventually sentence her to death by merely declaring four times that the accusation is true. On the other hand, women have no such right in Islam.

Answer 8

Show us the twenty pages,

Otherwise we will reserve judgement.

Answer 9

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