doesn't mod s call herself a feminist? she can't be muslim and a feminist, islam is a male dominated religion, women have to be constantly oppressed. it's disgusting how muslim women are treated
Well, first of all, Iām genderfluid, and agender today, but thanks for misgendering me, asshole. (I use they/them.)
You wanna talk about how Muslim women and DFAB people are treated? Fine, we can talk about that.
We can talk about how the Quran was revealed in 632 AD, saying how women are equal to men. (āAnd their Lord responded to them: āā¦be you male or female - you are equal to one another.āā [Quran 3:195])
We can talk about how in the 16th century, western men were still debating if women had souls.
We can talk about how in 632, the 1st century, Muslim women (and all DFAB people) had the rights to choose who to marry, to divorce, to work, to educate and be educated, to have their won inheritance, to their own land and property, to have their own businesses, to participate in combat, to half their husbandās wealth, to have their own opinions, to have custody of their children, and on and on and on.
We can talk about Muslim womenās right to have a voice in government. Tell me, when did the USA give (white) women āequal participation in the political process,ā or voting? 1920. Muslim women have had that since 632.
We can talk about how Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Turkey, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, and Senegal have all had female Presidents or Prime Ministers. How 1/3rd of Egyptās parliament is female. How in the lovely USA, we havenāt even had a women vice-president yet.
We can talk about the hijab, niqab, abaya, and burqa, how theyāre mainly worn to protect women from leering men, and to allow women to interact freely in public without people being able to judge their bodies or looks and only having their minds and personalities to make judgements off of.
We can talk a out how the Western world has twisted our clothing into āwomen have to cover up because theyāre indecent!ā and women and feminine-presenting DFAB people get attacked and have their coverings yanked off, either because of Islamophobic hatred or misguided attempts at saving us.
We can talk about how Iāve had my hijab ripped off twice, both times by white men, once outside my communityās masjid (the Muslim place of worship.) And oddly enough, my clothing didnāt stop me from breaking one of those menās noses when he went after my sister. Just like itās never stopped me from going to school, or playing sports, or doing anything a white woman or DFAB person could do.
We can talk about how outside of the masjid, where men and women are required to cover their heads, Iāve never once been made to wear a hijab.
We can talk about how the only people who have lectured me about dressing modestly were non-Muslim teachers and other educators.
We can talk about how people want to preach about how Muslims think women are indecent, when western schools freak out when a girl shows her shoulders.
We can talk about my cousin who once made a joke about women belonging in the kitchen and how out of thirty people in the room, the only person who laughed was his white friend. How his father immediately corrected him.
We can talk about how the first university ever, the University of al-Qarawiyyin, was founded in 858 by Fatima al-Fihri, a Muslim woman. How despite that, the summer I was thirteen and taking extra courses at the community college, an instructor praised me for joining even though āI know Muslim parents donāt let girls have higher education.ā I had to look her in the eyes and ask who she thought was paying for my classes.
We can talk about how in one of those courses, LGBT rights came up and I mentioned I was dating a girl. And someone who was almost twenty-three (ten years older than me at the time) came up to me after that class, and said āI bet your Islamic God doesnāt mind you being a d*ke, cause he gets to watch.ā
We can talk about the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w.) who denounced all forms of enslavement of women, and assisted women in issuing their rights to exist freely.
We can talk about people who rush to condemn Muslim men for hurting the ādefenselessā girls, then turning around and making jokes about raping and hitting women.
We can talk about the āsaviors of Muslim women,ā talking about how theyāre so oppressed, they donāt get to make their own choices.
We can talk about how these people completely ignore anyone who says theyāre wrong and call them brainwashed. Because of course millions of women have been coerced into believing in a tradition that views them as subservient, what other explanation is there?
We can talk about how patronizing and infantalizing this is, how it denies Muslim women and DFAB people agency and puts our āsaviorsā on a pedestal. āWe need to be their heroes! Because obviously they canāt fix their problems without the aid of white people!ā
We can talk about how itās true that Muslim women suffer from misogyny. How there are Muslim men who think of women as lesser, how some Muslim women are forced to cover themselves and marry. Because guess what? There is no culture that is exempt from misogyny and sexism, gender discrimination is a problem everywhere. But Islam is not inherently misogynistic, it never has been.
We can talk about how somehow thereās this incredibly untrue idea that Western cultures have āprogressed forward, and sexism doesnāt exist here, only in other countries and cultures.ā
We can talk about how if people want to help Muslim women, all that is needed is for them to listen to us and follow our lead.
We can talk about how Muslim women and DFAB people do not need white people to save them. We have always been capable of helping ourselves.
There are a lot of conversations to be had about the treatment of Muslim women and DFAB people, if itās something you want to discuss.
But the thing is? People who talk about how oppressed Muslim women are generally donāt.
You want a deflection from your misogyny, āYou think Iām bad! You should see how Muslim girls are treated.ā You want an excuse for your Islamophobia, āWe need to criticize Islam, they treat women awfully!ā You want justification for western imperialism, āThese wars are necessary! We need to save the poor girls!ā
You donāt care about Muslim women and DFAB people.
Stop pretending like you do.
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