dear Guppans,
if u would like, please feel free to reflect, discuss & comment, then we can elaborate on eachothers’ ideas.
thanks,
Dushi
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Here is what **Shazia Mirza is saying::D **
The women in my family have started wearing the burqa, as we all use the same bus pass
This article first appeared in the *New Statesman.*
I know this women supposedly a Muslim is being self deprcating, in a very derogatory way, the point is why and how did this all come about?
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Er.. and her point is?
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oppps, it was a mistake.... ;-)
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How does this article portray an image of a respectable muslim woman? 
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She an apostate or something?
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Your right it does not, but that is what is happening out there, it seems it is some kind of a survival technique, where the oppressed are now lashing out against each other!..
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I cannot comment on this one.I totally believe that their are far more responsibilities of muslim women than we thought.:) which i am unable to complete fully
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Afridi,
the article was intended for responses for Musalimahs on the forum.
even still if u had to comment, you were not asked to LABEL on the person who wrote the article or the one who posted it!!!!
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good question, Sara516,
before i say anything about the article, I'd like to hope that all read the article thoroughly.
From my understanding, the point of this article is that in the non Muslim cultures and market economies, women have learnt to equate their "E QUALITY" to that of men in TERMS OF power that independence enables men.
Autonomy of thought, of expense, of one's will to do ANYTHING or EVERYTHING (right or wrong) under the pretext of being LIKE males, is what is clouding the minds of the women who the MARKET economies have captured.
Little do they both know, that they are inherently interdependent.
Evolutionarily, & semantically, we are social animals. We are sexual of course and so we have to ASSESS who we take on as our PARTNER in the business of life and living it.
Of course, many things portrayed in this article are not APPLICABLE to TRUE assertive, & honestly dignified Musalimah/s.
That said, either we can ignore this perpetual truth about us, in the times in which we are living, or we can & must RE ASSESS our positions in the context of autonomous BUT PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE young WOMEN AND MEN, ACROSS VARIED ASPECTS of our personal and social, professional and civic, monetary and intellectual, familial and spiritual lives and so on and so forth.
Some people among us are selfish, others are selfless, some are caring, others live off of others, some may be honest, others thrive on deception, some have voids in their persons and thereby they act the way they do, in their interpersonal dealings, and it all reflects through their motivations, intentions, & the amount of credence they ALLOW their Maker, that means, their God may not be the God who created them, any longer, but that they are bound to obey other Gods, their self serving interests, or their learnt desperate needs and the ignoble means with which they could and would FILL IN the voids in their persons.
Life and its tracks, in a Non-Muslim culture are different & there are some universal rights and wrongs, still.
Neither a man nor a woman must feel FORCED to do anything to please others.
Balance is the key to inner and outer transparent dealings. Other wise, even a bad Muslim or Musalimah are no good.
We know very well that each will be judged in the after life, for our own DEEDS. Men won’t come in to stand for women, nor women will stand in for men to get PARDON for each others’ sins or mistakes, in front of the MAKER.
So, in comparison, to a real and just Islamic ethos of believing women and men, we KNOW that this is not our portrayal, that it does not SIT WELL with us.
Instead, we are AWARE of the fact that we have, in our teachings, a social contract, one that does not DICTATES xyz duties, BUT ENABLES US to see & practically fulfill the requirements of doing our work together to the best of our abilities, WITHOUT interchanging men for women, or women for men.
True Islam is, thus, Gender-sensitive BUT fair in that gender sensitivity.
I hope my insight makes sense, & that this discussion will ensue further by others.
best,
Dushi
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Dushi, the article you posted refers to women and marketing, if i'm not mistaken.
SindSigar posted an article by Shazia Mirza, that was the article that we were all commenting on.
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For a few moments assume, I am a woman since I want to comment on the topic 
I agree to Dushwari’s point
Instead, we are AWARE of the fact that we have, in our teachings, a social contract, one that does not DICTATES xyz duties, BUT ENABLES US to see & practically fulfill the requirements of doing our work together to the best of our abilities, WITHOUT interchanging men for women, or women for men.
True Islam is, thus, Gender-sensitive BUT fair in that gender sensitivity.
Very true…
Since I have written my point of view, I revert back to being what I am i.e. a man* :D*
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thanks for the endorsement, Lahore.
it speaks volumes of the assertive, agggressive, harder side of yours.
pain is after all, felt by anybody who has a heart.
i kinda liked ur feminine affinity!