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Sister_Amy
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Islam puts men and women in the places God created for them. It’s not sensible to say that one is better than the other, or even that they are completely the same–either would do an injustice.My simple answer to this: Islam permits the beating of wives. Beating makes no sense if it is not to inflict pain that’s why the qualification stated by you is laughable. It makes this verse seems very stupid indeed when you explain it that way because it makes no sense at all if a beating that being executed should inflict no pain at all.
However, no matter the qualification for the painless beating, Muslim women have no chance against their husband in this area because of the place Islam put their women in an Islamic community. Clearly their women are second-class citizens, inferior and to be treated with disdain just like domestic animals. In this situation, the reality of the beating when it happens will surely not the unrealistically non-beating that you professed. Sorry, but I have to disagree with your understanding on all this. I know that can be the Islamic teaching but the verse concerned and Islam’s position of women in its society does not point to it. So you are teaching something that is actually the opposite of what the Quran and Islam has on the treatment of women.
I tell you this, it is a bad verse on women. It should not appear in the Quran. Thus when you have it and all the hadiths on women, your explanation seems to be against the context altogether.
If you mean Christianity does not excel on the way it views women, I think you are under-informed. But this should be for another thread.
This is simply not true. It never was and has been.
That might be but I don’t see how that can be practiced in your community considering Islamic way of life would not permit this culture to really flourish. I am very convinced of this – you cannot establish a practice if you put in contravening rules there. You need a conducive structure, teaching, culture and spirit in order to make honoring and respecting women a reality. Not in Islam where in principle Mohammad and the Quran had clearly put women in less than equal position with the men. There are many examples, one of which is the permission of polygamy.
And I see you are horribly informed about the realities of wife-beating, so I can beseech you only to do research on the subject. Not until very recently (in Western Christian countries, mind you) was it considered to be an issue at all, as wives were considered to be the property of their husbands.
Whereas in Islam a woman has never been considered property of her husband. I know it’s tough to admit, but Islam does have the higher ground, the far superior model for inclusiveness of women in society at large, as well as rights in the public and private spheres of life.