This book describes in detail the way a woman should be treated and the way she should treat her husband. The Qur’an expresses that men are above women and that women are inferior to their husbands. It is stated that, “…it is for the women to act as they (the husbands) act by them, in all fairness; but the men are a step above them,” (Q 2:228). It is also stated that, “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other,” (Q 4:34). Muslims tend to treat women so unfairly due to these scriptures written in the holy book.
Islam, the youngest religion in all three, was founded by Muhammad. In Islam, Muhammad is the last and the greatest prophet of the God and received revelations from the God. Muhammad agreed with some elements in Judaism and he was familiar with Christianity. He preached the messages which he believed was sent by God in Arabic countries. After all the messages were collected and written down in Koran—the Islamic
Assess the view that the main role of religion is to promote patriarchal ideology and maintain the oppression of women (33 marks) According to feminists there are countless examples of patriarchy which have been used to control and later oppress women. Places of worship show this as they often segregate the sexes. An example of this is the Jewish synagogue in which women are placed behind screens separated from the men who in turn are situated in the main centre space. This highlights the marginalisation between the men and the women. However if this was the case surely women would recognise that they are being treated unequally.
Therefore, we should take a deeper look at the different culture and the reasons why they perform the different martial practices that they do because marriage exist in several different ways. First, there are some cultures who believe in arranged marriages. There are some people who believe in arranged marriages because it has been that way for hundreds of years. Arranged marriage has long stood as evidence of South Asian women’s lack of autonomy, emotional contentment, and sexual satisfaction. Arranged marriage is blamed for a host of social problems facing South Asian women in a way that assumes U.S. distinctiveness from the rest of the world.
Throughout the world marriage takes various forms, from same-sex marriage to polygamous marriages, most of which are subject to criticism within the context and setting of human rights as is any structural aspect of a society. Despite criticism and disdain of many western civilizations, the practice of polygamy has continued. This paper is aimed to explore and examine polygamy throughout the world and the impacts within the family structure by examining both sides of the controversial practice. Today, Americans live in"an era of plural, diverse, and heterogeneous beliefs and values, cultural subgroups, and lifestyle" (Altman & Ginat, 1996, p. 5), which are likely to intensify in the future as a result of changes in both the demographic and social landscape of America and the Western world. Centrifugal and pluralist forces increase in the wake of geopolitical changes that are altering character of once stable nation-states.
Leila Ahmed’s The Discourse of the Veil explores the real source of women’s struggles in Islam versus the purely symbolic ones that the West concentrates its critique on. Since before the 17th century, the West has been forming opinion of the Middle East, depicting what makes it so different. Most of the ideas were focused on women, because they were the most visibly different to “western eyes.” Travelers and crusaders made uninformed assumptions about how women were dressed and how that reflected upon Muslim society. “The thesis of the new colonial discourse of Islam centered on women was that Islam was innately and immutably oppressive to women, that the veil and segregation epitomized that oppression, and that these customs were the fundamental reasons for the general and comprehensive backwardness of Islamic societies” (Ahmed 152). The idea that the veil is holding Islam back as a civilization was greatly encouraged by writer Amin, and
This is an argument many use to support the claim that marriage must be between a man and a woman. I find this a bit ironic, because so many of these leaders pushing this belief (not a fact) down the public’s throat have committed this “amoral” act and so have their children. The arguments made by the religious against same sex marriages is not only unconstitutional it is, like so
The Holy Bible in the same manner can be misinterpreted in many ways as well. The deceptive views of the Holy Bible can lead to oppression so that women may think and use religion as being just a source. The novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood discusses the misuse of religion as a supreme source of oppression and superiority. Allusion in this novel has been shown to make connections between Gilead and the Bible itself,
some people would say the the reiligion is offensive and opressive towards women. some would say that the religion is even slave like towards women. however the women and men that particepate in the islamic religion would say that islam for women has been viewed wrong and that actually egalitaran, specially on its veiws about the sexs. some of the islamic followers would say more than Judaism and or Christianity. conventional veiws suggest that the west sees women of islam as a opressive object instead of a counterpart , in the islamic movement.
However, scholars noted that there are many inconsistencies concerning this, seeing that though the Bible did say this, women were still treated as inferior to men, and that women were limited to the home. They still were seen as a means to produce children, more of an object for sexuality, and be silent while serving her husband (Ellwood 325). Some Christians even blamed women for “the sin of humanity that necessitated the death of the savior,” and they were referred to as “the devil’s gateway.” Celibacy soon became a choice of women because it soon became more holy than marrying someone (Ellwood 325). Because of these views of women, they became the popular blame for many problems, villages and towns were suspicious of women. This was seen in the Witch Trials of Salem, and these women were a woman who sinned or stepped out of their place t hat was put upon them.