Re: Muslim attitudes towards rape [split: Muslim Women Gang Raped.. ]
who wrote the divine laws??? Men, men, men and more men, all mortal. when were these laws written? before the age of englightenment. what was society like back then? exactly. Civil law over divine law. Divine law is very much rooted in tribal mysticism and tribal mentality. present tribal mentality versus present day civil mentality. vast difference!!!!! T he former crude, rude and ignorant.
what about a woman's right to equal inheritance. in islamic law she is short changed.
why does it have to be two women to testify against one male in islamic law?
divine law of saudi arabia ? really defecates on a woman's rights as an equal counterpart to a man.
so don't go preaching divine law is something greater or wonderful as we know man wrote it before age of enlightenement.
yes , divine law sure demeans and debases a woman's human rights. no wonder it's mostly men who like to challenge me as a muslim. because I have the basic human right not to submit just cause some cleric told me so. civil law gives me more rights , any where, any time and any place.
And human rights are not based on divine law but civil , humanistic idealogy.
Divine law may have been conveyed by men, but it was not made by them. This is what I believe as a Muslim. This statement of yours reminds me of an incident that took place a couple of months ago. A French Canadian woman once questioned my wife as to why she wore burqa. My wife told her that she does so by her own free will. Then she asked me why I don't wear a scarf, so I told her that it's not required for men to do so. Then she asked me who makes those rules and asked if it's men who make them. Then she started telling me about how women were also required to wear scarves in Quebec not so long ago due to the influence of the church and that it was the men making those rules, but now they're changing the rules and women don't have to wear scarves anymore. Then I told her that the laws that we follow are given to us by Allah, and we're never going to change them. She then seemed satisfied by that and thanked us for enlightening her.