Do muslims hold respect for idea of Feminism?
Suppose I go to Saudi and say in public that "Women should be given rights equal to men"...
What would they do to me?
2007-11-29 15:17:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not sure about Saudi Arabia, or any other countries acutally, but I can say this:
As a Muslim women, I do belive in equal rights for women, and I do consider myself a feminist. So your question, do muslims hold respect for idea of feminisim, I don't know about all Muslims, but I sure do! I think your question is waaaay to broad. If you have a room full of Muslims, and ask them all this question, you will get various answers. Yes, we are all the same religion, but that dosn't necessairly mean we have the exact same beliefs. Personal belifs differ from person to person.
I don't know what they'd do to you. Saudi is an extreme example, though. If you came to my house and said that, we'd be like right on! lol My mother was named after Bengali writer Begum Rokeya, who was considered a great women. She did a lot towards liberateing women of her time and giving them a voice. My mother was named after her because my grandparents felt it was a strong, powerful name. Begum Rokeya was Muslim.
Basically, what I'm trying to say is beliefs differ from person to person, so asking a question about the beliefs of all Muslims does not make sense. If you asked, do Muslims eat pork, you wouldve gotten the same reply from everyone. But not in this case, where its about personel opinion.
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2007-11-29 15:37:58 · answer #1 · answered by ♥fefe 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am a Muslim American woman, and I don't consider myself a feminist. In Islam, women are equal with men, not the same as or identical with them. Big difference. Women are men's human, social, intellectual, and spiritual equals. Not superior. Not inferior. Equal. Women and men are not each other's clones.
Take cases of divorce, for instance. If, as feminists claim, "women should be given rights equal to men", that's like saying if women have greater earning power than men, women should have the right to pay men alimony. How many women want to pay men alimony? I most certainly wouldn't.
In Islam, women are to be maintained and provided for by their husbands. That doesn't mean women cannot have their own independent incomes/careers. In cases of divorce, men do not get alimony, even if the women's earnings/financial resources exceed theirs. In other words, whether single or married, women have the right in Islam to keep and maintain their incomes. In addition, women can keep their own names during marriage. They don't have to take their husbands' names. (There may still be some Muslim women who take their husbands' names when they marry. However, they don't have to do that.)
In cases of matriarchal polygamy (which Islam doesn't allow), who's going to maintain and provide for whom? Will the husbands maintain the wife or do the wife maintain the husbands? If she becomes pregnant, how will she know who the father is? She cannot play a guessing game. In cases of divorce, does she collect from her husbands or do they collect from her?
2007-11-30 04:13:50 · answer #2 · answered by Shafeeqah 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pakistan had a woman president and they have only existed as an independent nation for about 60 years.
The USA hasn't had a woman president yet, and they have been an independent nation for more than 200 years. Women didn't even the right to vote until the 1920s.
Think about it.
2007-11-30 00:27:35 · answer #3 · answered by majnun99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't think about it. If you want to be stoned, then go to Saudi and go into the public and state your view. The only problem is you can't go out without a man to accompany you and you must be completely covered, head to foot.
2007-11-29 23:25:59 · answer #4 · answered by Tricia R 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
youd get whipped
there was a muslim troll a few months back who actually would ask this very question saying secular humanists used feminisim to usher in zionism and the nwo or something like that and he had a huge cut and paste of quotes it was disturbing
2007-11-29 23:25:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disapprove of feminism and I'm American Muslim. Women have rights appropriate to their gender and men have rights approrpriate to their gender in Islam. Men and women are equal in Islam. They have no need for feminism.
2007-11-30 00:32:25 · answer #6 · answered by wolfkarew 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Oh, women enjoy all kinds of rights in Muslim countries.
2007-11-29 23:24:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous A 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Give you 40 lashes with a teddy bear?
2007-11-29 23:20:49 · answer #8 · answered by Little Red Hen 2.0 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋