Re: Male dominance of religions …
Skhan you make some very valid points, but how does the female fraternity climb out of this patriachal collection of hadith? Iam afraid its not that easy given the amount of literature produced to support such mysoginistic ideas. The same can be applied to Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism. Much of our literature related to the status of women can find its roots in Christianity. Have we borrowed ideas from our Ahle Kithab? Most probably, yes. We should remember one thing, religions were a product of tribal societies with well entrenched biases, social and gender sensitive, for them to revert back to their old habits was always easier when they could justify such acts in the garb of religious validity.
Christianity to a certain extent has been able to evolve socially, economically and politically. Our problem lies in the inability to perform religious discourse (Ijtihad) so muslims are stuck somewhere in the eleventh century in a drastic need to evolve or face perpetual ignorance…