How Islam Honors Women.

[Reuben_J]

This is a quote from the other thread:

"If Islam really treated women with honor, we would see the positive consequences of that honor over the course of the past 14 centuries. Islam did not treat women with honor. On the contrary, it has distorted the concept of honor.

“Thus, it has destroyed the intellectual structure of the Arabic-speaking nation, and has produced people who cannot distinguish between things and their opposites - people with distorted thinking and warped mentality, as infertile as barren land, which cannot yield a thing.
"The best proof of this is the reality of Islam. When the Prophet Muhammad married the child 'Aisha, this was not an act of honor toward her childhood. When Muhammad married Zaynab, the wife of his adopted son, after seeing her naked and desiring her, this was not an act of honor toward married women. When Muhammad married the Jewish woman Safiya, upon his return from a raid in which he killed her father, brother, and husband, this was not an act of honor toward her. The same goes for all his marriages.”

Interesting how two different cultures and religions understand honor.

To Muslims what Mohammad did to those women was honoring them.

Obviously Christians don’t see this as honoring but then we are told Christianity had it wrong on marriages.

If Muslims are right on marriages as epitomized by Mohammad, lots of criminals today would be set free in the Western world.

But my question : is it really honoring what Mohammad did to those women? I think this is important because Muslims follow what was epitomized and did by him.

 

[Jay53]

Given the title, this seemed to be the appropriate place to post this article in case any one hadn’t seen it.

Regarding a segment of men in the Pashtun population of Afghanistan and their view of women: (emphasis mine)

The U.S. army medic also told members of the research unit that she and her colleagues had to explain to a local man how to get his wife pregnant.

The report said: “When it was explained to him what was necessary, he reacted with disgust and asked, ‘How could one feel desire to be with a woman, who God has made unclean, when one could be with a man, who is clean? Surely this must be wrong.’”

Also from the article:

The report also detailed a disturbing practice in which older “men of status” keep young boys on hand for sexual relationships. One of the country’s favorite sayings, the report said, is “women are for children, boys are for pleasure.”

The report concluded that the widespread homosexual behavior stems from several factors, including the “severe segregation” of women in the society and the “prohibitive” cost of marriage.

foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/28/afghan-men-struggle-sexual-identity-study-finds/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Flatest+%2528Text±+Latest+Headlines%2529