Fighting Hislam

by Susan Carland | Religion & Spirituality | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 052287035X Global Overview for this book
Registered by xtrdnry of Parkdale, Victoria Australia on 1/9/2020
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Journal Entry 1 by xtrdnry from Parkdale, Victoria Australia on Thursday, January 9, 2020
Muslim women oppose sexism in their community in many ways: pray-in protests, feisty Tumblrs, demanding to enter mosques through the main entrance, teaching Islamic classes to women and girls, writing their own female-friendly translations of the Qur'an, making films with Muslim protagonists...

In Fighting Hislam, Susan Carland unearths a creative, varied and committed new type of feminism, one that embraces passionate religious conviction while challenging sexism. She discovered that it is work that is often supported by Muslim men and the Muslim community, but still faces condescension from non-Muslims and a backlash from people who believe that to be a feminist Muslim is necessarily to be a Bad Muslim.

The stories of the women in this book demonstrate a conviction that gender equality is a God-given right and consistent with generations of pious Muslim women. It gives a new insight into what it means to be a Muslim woman today.

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Journal Entry 7 by winggoldenwattlewing at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Friday, December 13, 2024
Did I believe before reading this book that some women within Islam are trying to fight discrimination within the religion? Of course I did, so this was no revelation to me. I set out to read this book, discovering the women in this book are privileged women living in western countries. Not women locked away in Afghanistan who can do nothing to fight discrimination. The mere fact that the Koran has a section on women, and not one on men that I can find; only singling out women for comment, shows how women are considered in the religion. It speaks in terms of ye and them, your women. Ye being men and them being women. It speaks to men.

Surah IV 15. 'As for your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify (to the truth of the allegation) then confine them until death take them...'
YOUR, four of YOU (men), THEY

Surah IV 34: 'Men are in charge of woman, because Allah made the one of them to excel the other...'

The author of this book is arguing against the interpretation of the religion. How can she argue against that.
About half way through the book I gave up. Two many distracting thoughts as I read; that these are privileged women; the words that the Koran uses which the author is writing about interpretation, when those words seen clear enough.
Similar to Christianity, Islam is a religion made for men by men. And many men like control, and religions like this suit men.

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