religious commitment, that means it's not oppression? Are the two things mutually exclusive?
Hindusim has the caste system, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who thinks THAT isn't oppressive.
But perhaps you would, since you'd see it as a religious commitment.
I love the way you reach your conclusions, CBD. That kind of circuitous thinking is really quite impressive.
LOL!
I'm not a Muslim, but I have read extensively on the subject, and just because when Prophet Mohammed married Khadija he hadn't yet begun to receive the revelation of the Koran doesn't mean that we can't look to Khadija's behavior as a model for Muslim women today. Khadija is one the two best role models for Muslim women (the other being Aisha), and how she behaved and the prominent role that she played (business woman, first convert to Islam, etc.) shouldn't be dismissed so casually by you simply because she and Prophet Mohammed married before the beginnings of Islam.
I trust that Prophet Mohammed approved of his wife's behavior, and so who are you to say that we cannot look to her as an example for women nowadays?
And while you didn't say (nor did I quote you as saying) women were whores, when you said "This equality, does not mean allowing women to go naked in the street where it does elsewhere", the implication was that you think that's what women in (my) western society do with freedom -- we run around naked.
Well guess what? We don't.
We actually become educated, raise families, contribute to our communities, become civically active in causes we believe in, travel, start businesses,...and a lot more things.
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou
religious commitment, that means it's not oppression? Are the two things mutually exclusive?
Hindusim has the caste system, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who thinks THAT isn't oppressive.
But perhaps you would, since you'd see it as a religious commitment.
I love the way you reach your conclusions, CBD. That kind of circuitous thinking is really quite impressive.
LOL!
I'm not a Muslim, but I have read extensively on the subject, and just because when Prophet Mohammed married Khadija he hadn't yet begun to receive the revelation of the Koran doesn't mean that we can't look to Khadija's behavior as a model for Muslim women today. Khadija is one the two best role models for Muslim women (the other being Aisha), and how she behaved and the prominent role that she played (business woman, first convert to Islam, etc.) shouldn't be dismissed so casually by you simply because she and Prophet Mohammed married before the beginnings of Islam.
I trust that Prophet Mohammed approved of his wife's behavior, and so who are you to say that we cannot look to her as an example for women nowadays?
And while you didn't say (nor did I quote you as saying) women were whores, when you said "This equality, does not mean allowing women to go naked in the street where it does elsewhere", the implication was that you think that's what women in (my) western society do with freedom -- we run around naked.
Well guess what? We don't.
We actually become educated, raise families, contribute to our communities, become civically active in causes we believe in, travel, start businesses,...and a lot more things.
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou