'Islam Needs a Sexual Revolution'

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@samiakhtar

yeah, when it comes to choosing between the worst excesses of “muslim” society and the worst excesses of “western” society, id take the latter as the lesser of two evils any day.

your not discriminating between religion and culture. two disparate factors. you should. you would make more sense with “eastern society” and “western society”. thats the first thing. Islam has nothing to do with culture. Now you can say whatever you want about Pakistan, India or whatever state.

we’re talking about a moral outlook that considers it acceptable for a full-grown man to marry a teenager half his age from the other side of the world that he’s never met before, at which point all manner of sexual fun is allowed to ensue (because they’re married! anything goes!), but considers it unacceptable for a woman to have, say, four long-term stable relationships before settling down and marrying for life at around age 30. a moral outlook which considers murdering a woman for wearing a skirt as acceptable, but considers unacceptable…well, a woman wearing a skirt.

yes islam forbids premartial relationships and forbids marriages without mutual consent. Anyone engaging in such pratices is not following islam.

and dont say “but they’re not real muslims” because it makes no difference.

why not? because you said so?

it’s islamic CULTURE

huh? so its a religious culture?interesting.

places in the world where islam exists in a fully egalitarian, productive environment is the west. that’s precisely because the freedoms granted by the west have (mostly) allowed muslim women to prosper freely using their own choices and piety. islam, certainly not pakistani islam, has absolutely no business telling the west what’s moral and what isn’t.

i bet your talking about the freedom where a woman can lead the namaz in the mosque. its not freedom, its the apathy to follow the Islam in its true form.