female equality?

[Kaleem]

Re: female equality?

@PyariCgudia

Well first off, women can lead in Islam, its just that there is a lot of distortion in the scholarly work. It also depends on what your definition of “leadership” is.

Secondly, like I said, its done to villify the opposite side. No doubt about that. Minah-pa, anytime someone sees a weakness in you, they’ll try to exploit it. So people see that there is this current struggle within muslims regarding misogyny issues, and they’re playing it up.

Just like we muslims play it up when we see that western society is now being weakened by high divorce rates and the break down of the American family, and other such trends. We expand it and then accuse westerners of “trying to go too far with feminism”, and other such accusations…if we viewed things objectively, of course the conclusion will be different.

PCG, some of the issues you mentioned are more than weakness. For example, high divorce rate in US, I dont think it is related to feminism, it is however, related to people not taking responsibility for their actions. Much of today’s culture is based on instant gratification. We want to get everything right away…when the spouse does not turn out to be the person you thought he/she was …people move on to the next one. In my opinion, if we teach our kids to take responsibility for their actions it will help us tremendously. You can look at the divorce rate objectively and it will still be high. There will be broken families with dead beat fathers and confused children raised by two lesbos or faggots which contributes to the break down of not only family values but moral fibre as well.