what most people dont realize is the Quran has laws about violence against women specially in marriagr and duress situations. inaddtion the Quran also has women creditable for their own actions. women are just as responable as men when it comes to heaven or hell. in societies like west africa or egypt has the most influential women who determine alot of whats happens in the community, religious and educational
Fatima Mernissi, author of The Veil and the Male Elite, argued accepted male readings for the medieval Islamic past were deeply flawed and sexist when applied to the present. Since the 1990s, the struggle to apply gender inquiry to Middle Eastern societies has also been forcefully challenged by Muslim women in the United States. Middle Eastern women are either silent or passive in their own societies. Unequal, gender hierarchies of power demonstrated that women negotiated theses structures in distinctly inventive ways. Men and women prayed in difference places at the mosque.
It just advices women to use the hijab as an act of obedience to God. Secondly, women wearing hijabs become a very visible sign of Islam. While Muslim men can blend easily into any society, Muslim women are often put on the line and forced to defend not only their decision or not to cover their bodies but also their religion. Thirdly, women who use the hijab lose their identity as women because they cannot dress appropriately according to their gender. It is not certain that the hijab frees women from being seen as sexual objects of desire or from being valued for their looks or body shape.
This opinion is made due to the ignorance of the Muslim religion. Muslim women use this dress code not only for religious purposes but for moral conduct as well. There are several parts to the Muslim women dress code. The dress cover that the Muslim women wear is called a Hijab. It’s also called the veil, purdah or just a head covering.
But in the west this statement is misinterpreted which shows specific issues and differences. These differences is where the stereotype of Islam being assessed of teaching the oppression of woman. * This stereotyping does come from these laws of the west from the misinterpreted understanding of the Qur’an, the rights they enforce are a woman’s testimony is only half or a man’s, that woman are cheated out of half of their inheritance, that the Qur’an allows wide beating, that men can divorce on a whim and have four wives, and that Islam promotes unfair isolation. * Women are unfairly assessed with these misinterpreted rights from the west. It is very rare but it some households wife beating does occur, but that is due to the same misinterpretations from out west.
It is common to see the Iraqi people in abayas; although, the younger generation does not seem to like them much. Nevertheless, no Muslim female wears either the hijab or the veil because their male cousins force them to wear it. It is worn by women for two main reasons: religion and for comfort and security. “However, given that the veil is
Article Review: This Great and Sore Affliction 1-Introduction In the controversial article, This Great and Sore Affliction by William Sterne and Nancy Nahra: discusses the way a women named Anne Marbury Hutchinson expresses her beliefs and opinions with others in the 1600s. I think the author wrote this article to express how abnormal it was for women to stand up for themselves and also to give readers an understanding of the consequences people would face for sharing there opinions back then, especially if you were female. 2-Critical Summary The way women and people in general were treated in the 1600’s differs to how we are treated today. The thesis of this article is that not everyone was treated equally despite the circumstances; most women didn’t have much freedom of speech compared to some male colonists. One of the authors’ major contentions was the sex differentiations and restrictions people had.
An article of clothing, called a rife, separates her face. On this rifle, she has etched in ink a Farsi poem. This poem articulates the deep belief of many Iranian women in Islam (Sayre, 2010). Islam people believe that when a woman wears a chador she is concealing her sexuality and prevents her from becoming a sexual object. Photographer Lorna Simpson is preoccupied
RELIGIOUS DEBATES ABOUT WEARING OF VEILS The practice of wearing veil, especially in religious way, is often symbolised and homogenised; and it has become a common subject in media, classrooms and political debates where it is regularly analysed in the following ways: establishing reasons for veiling such as why women wear veil and whether they freely do so; and assessing whether the practice of wearing veil is good or bad within certain framework such as international law, secular liberation and feminism. In the past, such media explanations and debates centred on conceptualisation of veil wearing as anti-ethical to modernity and religiously based notion which was incepted to oppress Islamic women and create an idea that men are superior to women. However, historical and ethnographical researches has contended this older interpretations, as it has been repeatedly argued that practice of veiling is a complex issue which could have been initiated and upheld by colonisation, naturalisation, economic development and globalisation; and that it was not necessarily intended to oppress women or portray them as weaker sex. For instance, some research findings suggest that certain cultural expectations, conventions and norms are responsible for veiling culture in some countries and some women still upheld this veiling culture even when they reside in other countries where the veiling culture is not required. Furthermore, modern religious symbolism associated with veil wearing can be considered as a myth because evident indicates that wearing of veil is common in olden ages irrespective of the religion or belief of women and men.
Answers to section A. 1. Summary of “The many faces behind the veil” - an article written by Arifa Akbar and Jerome Taylor The article states different reasons for muslim women to wear hijab – religion, spirituality or even political views. Whereas detractors see this piece of clothing as a form of opression and asks :”why any woman would hide their face in public ?” Rahmanara Chowdhury ,a 29 year old student outreach worker with 7 sisters chose 9 years ago to wear the niqab – an Arabic garment that covers the whole face except the eyes. For her it was a very spiritual thing choosing the niqab, and she was also the first in her family.