ISLAM AND DUMB WOMAN. Are woman "deficient of the mind" or was Muhammad wrong?

Question

Bukari: “”the prophet said, "isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?" the women said, "yes." he said, "this is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind."” http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/sunnah/bukhari/048.sbt.html#003.048.826

Typically Muslims try to answer this question by making a joke out of it but not denying their belief in claim that woman are retarded.

To directly assert that "woman are not deficient of the mind" is to contradict Muhammad, which is blasphemy in Islam. In a apologetics conversation with non-muslims, Muslims will say and do everything, short of agreeing that woman are not deficient of the mind.

This shows you the exent of brainwashing, to take the most obvious truths or untruths, ann deny them, if the Quran or Haddith says the opposite. Thats the pinnacle of brainwashing.

My experience is, that with a sample of Muslims in Islamic countries, maybe one in a hundred will agree woman are not deficient of the mind.

Answer 1

Its not just that women are "deficient of the mind", its much worst than that.

Women are Worth Half a Man (Qur'an 2:282, Sahih Bukhari 3:48:826)

Women are Slaves (Ibn Hisham, al-Sira al-nabawiyya, Cairo, 1963, 4:251.)

Women are to be compared to monkeys and dogs. (Sahih Bukhari 1:9:490, Sahih Bukhari 1:9:493, Abu Dawud 2:704)

Marry a women for pleasure, not for love (Sahih Bukhari 7:62:17, Abu Dawud 41:5111)

Women are Generally Inferior compared to men (Qur'an 2:228, Qur'an 4:34)

Women are Deficient in Intelligence (Sahih Bukhari 3:48:826, Sahih Bukhari 1:6:301, Sahih Bukhari 2:24:541)

Women Lack Gratitude (Sahih Bukhari 1:2:28)

Women are Crooked Like Ribs (Sahih Bukhari 7:62:113, Sahih Bukhari 7:62:114, Sahih Bukhari 4:55:548)

Women are a Tilth for Men to Cultivate (Qur'an 2:223, Abu Dawud 11:2138)

Women are like Devils (Sahih Muslim 8:3240)

Women are Detrimental to Men (Sahih Bukhari 7:62:33)

Women Will Never Successfully Rule Nations (Sahih Bukhari 9:88:219)

Menstruating Women are Not Allowed to Perform Tawaf (Sahih Bukhari 1:6:302)

Passing Women will Annul Prayers, just like a dog or a donkey (Sahih Bukhari 1:9:490, Sahih Bukhari 1:9:493)

Menstruating Women are Unclean (Qur'an 2:222)

Given all these evidence, it is very clear, that women to the islamic men are just playthings, like domestic animals to be taken care off. The muslimahs here in this forum just have no idea what islam is.

Answer 2

I don't know a lot, and I don't have any web sites or quotes for you ... but I'll do my best. It's my understanding that the "deficiency" they are referring to has to do with women being more sheltered. If I go to dictionary.com and look up deficiency, this is one of the results:

deficiency
noun
1. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"

The deficiency is not lack of intelligence, it's lack of life experience. A Muslim woman is usually kept sheltered to protect her. So obviously she won't have the same amount of life experience that a man would. Which would effect her decision making. That is how it was explained to me, and I think it makes sense.

Answer 3

It was only a hundred years or so ago that men in the US thought women's brains were smaller than men's. Just look how things have changed here. Maybe one day perhaps the Muslim women will catch up with American women.

Answer 4

I don't really know allot of Islamic belief's. but a guess is representing a women's submission to a men, even on Biblical time women was submissive to men. and men on those times was the one to learn the law of God and teach they wife and children's But today's day thanks God thing had change and women through studied like men had same or equal knowledge. and NO women are not dumb we are very smart.

Answer 5

Khadija (r.a.) Got married to Muhammad ( p.b.u.h.) and later embraced Islam when Islam was revealed. and thus she was the first woman to embrace Islam. Rest all the wives of Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) were widows or divorcees and they all embraced Islam or were muslims and then later became the wives of Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) ~! Rest Allah knows the best.... I will search more about this, inshAllah ~!

Answer 6

well you still don't understand it..don't you??

i guest you have to refer your question to any 'ustaz' or 'ustazah' on your area.Don't ask this question on the internet because,you see if you one of a muslim people you should understand that this question is sensitive..

But still..for me muslim peoples is a kind and generous person.No matter people say about muslim peoples and if its about bad things it still won't change my think of islam and muslim peoples.They still look nice to me..

You know..Like Muhammad sad "We have to treat everybody as nice as we can no matter its a muslim people or non muslim,rich or poor,womens or mens,kids or adults,animals or others living things..Just don't make it different.Otherwise you have to believe in your self and whatever your religion is you have to respect that and believe it IN YOUR HEART.

Answer 7

How can they call their mothers retarded? They would not exist were it nor for a mother. Mohammed seemed to worship his wife....so what's the problem? He loved little girls too. God/Allah needs a woman and a man to propogate the human race.

Answer 8

Undoubtedly the only women Mohammad had contact with were Muslim women who were denied an education and told to be silent and obedient. Of course they would appear to be retarded, but really they are just oppressed.

It's not entirely his fault that he came to the conclusion that they were stupid.

Answer 9

The difficulties that American Muslims have had with
Islam's depiction in the U.S. news media deserve a separate,
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while attractive for its brevity, should be replaced by longer
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al-Marayati, director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in
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of the world, too. "These movements are equally fanatic and
threatening, but extremism in the Muslim world receives
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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
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Islam into orthodox practices and have been welcomed into
Islamic gatherings by foreign-born Muslims

Answer 10

If you mean one particular woman, then you spelled it right, but if you mean all women, with an e, then who looks dumb now?