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Post by Big Lin on Oct 18, 2012 16:27:39 GMT
www.violenceisnotourculture.org/www.equalitynow.org/Both these sites are well worth leading. Islam has developed a really strong feminist movement in the last fifty years or so though it dates back much further and as early as the seventeenth century Turkish feminists started voicing demands for change (with some success although of course it wasn't till the time of Ataturk they finally got full civil rights in Turkey) Of course Equality Now isn't just about that issue but about fighting for human rights generally.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2012 18:37:17 GMT
I've glanced at both those sites. The problem of course is that the Koran is riddled with references to violence and that is difficult to ignore. I see that the first of the above sites does use references from the Koran to address the problems faced by Islamic women, as do these: www.jannah.org/sisters/and There has been recently much discussions about the so called “honor killings” of women in some Islamic countries. According to the Qur’an, the accusation (of unchastity) must be proven by four eyewitnesses, a practical impossibility! And even then a death penalty is not ordered in the Qur’an. Qur’an 24:23: “Surely those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil), are cursed in this world and hereafter, and they shall have a grievous chastisement.” Qur’an 24:2-4: “Those who accuse married women of adultery, then fail to produce four witnesses, you shall whip them eighty lashes, and do not accept any testimony from them; they are wicked.” Qur’an 33:58: “And those who speak evil things of the believing men and the believing women without their having earned (it), they are guilty indeed of a false accusation and a manifest sin.” “And as for those who are guilty of an indecency from among your women, call to witnesses against them four (witnesses) from among you; then if they bear witness confine them to the houses until death comes close to them or God opens some way for them.” (Q.4:15)
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