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https://goo.gl/YYr5RW


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/muhammad-was-a-feminist_b_12638112
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哈芬登郵報，台灣人可能不清楚。
不過他是一個自詡為左派、進步、女權、社會正義的網路媒體。
在美國SJW內很受歡迎。
不過實質上只是一個集權的傳聲筒，之前收希拉蕊錢，
來詆毀伯尼臭老頭的女性政策。
會寫出這種垃圾文章也不意外拉。

歐美女權主義真的超好笑，舔伊斯蘭教LP到一個極點。
因為他們認為伊斯蘭教是被父權主義給迫害，跟女權主義站在同一陣線上。

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文章大意，
伊斯蘭教沒有歧視女性，現在有歧視是因為歷史因素跟文化因素。
可蘭經沒有歧視女性。
批評孔子、釋迦牟尼，都歧視女性。
穆罕默德很尊重女性，改革了社會給女性平權。
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The prophet Muhammad would be appalled by how current Islamic Fundamentalists
are treating women under their control. This suppression is done in the name
of Islamic Law, known as Sharia. But the current suppression of women is
shaped by cultural and history. It has little basis in the Quran and it is
certainly not consistent with anything we know about what Muhammad taught or
how he treated women. Of all the founders of the great religions - Buddhism,
Christianity, Confucianism, Islam and Judaism — Muhammad was easily the most
radical and empowering in his treatment of women. Arguably he was history’s
first feminist.

This is of critical importance because if there is one single thing that
Arabs and Muslims could do to reform and re-vitalize their crisis ridden
cultures, it would be to liberate their women and provide them with the full
rights women are enjoying in more and more countries around the world. Women’
s equality is key to a real Arab Spring.

Among the founders of the great religions, Confucius barely mentioned women
at all and assumed in all his teachings that they we subordinate to men
within a patriarchal order. Buddha taught that women could become enlightened
but had to be pressured three times before allowing women to become nuns, and
then only on the condition, as he put it, that the highest nun would be lower
than the lowest monk. In the Gospel accounts, Jesus did not explicitly
comment on the status of women, although he did associate with women of ill
repute and with non Jewish women. Moses was thoroughly patriarchal and there
is virtually nothing in the Torah that indicates specific concern about women
’s rights.

Muhammad was fundamentally different. He both explicitly taught the radical
equality of women and men as a fundamental tenet of true spirituality, and he
took numerous concrete measures to profoundly improve the status and role of
women in Arabia during his own lifetime. Muhammad was sensitized to the
plight of women because he was born poor and orphaned at a very early age. He
was also illiterate. He knew as few did what poverty and social exclusion
meant.

Confucius was born into the gentry scholar class of ancient China. Buddha was
born a wealthy prince in Nepal. Jesus was born the son of a carpenter with
royal lineage and within a tightly knit Jewish community in Palestine. Moses
was born into a Hebrew family and raised in the palace of the Pharaoh of
Egypt. Muhammad had none of these advantages. Thus while other religious
leaders seemed strangely silent about the oppression of women, Muhammad
dramatically raised the status of women as a matter of religious conviction
and state policy. Consider the following:

During seventh century Arabia, female infanticide was commonplace. Muhammad
abolished it. A saying in the Hadith (the collection of sayings of Muhammad)
records that Muhammad said that the birth of a girl was a “blessing.” Women
in Arabia at that time were essentially considered property and had
absolutely no civil rights. Muhammad gave them the right to own property and
they were extended very important marital and inheritance rights.

Prior to Muhammad, the dowry paid by a man for his bride was given to her
father as part of the contract between the two men. Women had no say in the
matter. Muhammad declared that women needed to assent to the marriage and
that the dowry should go to the bride, not the father; furthermore, she could
keep the dowry even after marriage. The wife did not have to use the dowry
for family expenses. That was the responsibility of the man. Women were also
given the right to divorce their husbands, something unprecedented at that
time. In a divorce, the woman was empowered to take the dowry with her.

Women were extended inheritance rights as well. They were only given half as
much as their brothers because the men had more financial responsibilities
for family expenses, but with Muhammad, women became inheritors of property
and family assets for the first time in Arabia. At the time, this was
considered revolutionary.

Muhammad himself was often seen doing “women’s work” around the house and
was very attentive to his family. His first marriage to Khadija was
monogamous for the entire 15 years they were married, something rare in
Arabia at that time. By all accounts, they were deeply in love and Khadija in
fact was the first convert to Islam. She encouraged Muhammad from his very
first encounter with the angel Gabriel and the recitation of the first suras
that were to become the Quran.

After Khadija’s death, Muhammad married 12 wives. One was Aisha, the
daughter of his closest friend and ally Abu Baker. The rest were nearly all
widows, divorced women, or captives. He preached consistently that it was the
responsibility of men to protect those women who had met with misfortune.
This was one of the reasons polygamy was encouraged. Even with female
infanticide, women in seventh century Arabia far outnumbered men because so
many men were killed in the inter-tribal warfare of the day. Several of
Muhammad’s wives were poor and destitute and he took them in, along with
their children, into his household.

In his Farewell Sermon delivered shortly before he died in 632, Muhammad said
to the men, “You have certain rights over women but they have certain rights
over you.” Women, he said, are your “partners and helpers.” In one of the
sayings of the Hadith, Muhammad says, “The best men are those who are best
to their wives.”

His wife Aisha took a leadership role after his death in bringing together
the Hadith and another wife played a leading role in gathering together the
suras that comprise the Quran. Each of the 114 suras that comprise the Quran
with the exception of sura 9 begin with the words Bismillah al Rahman al
Rahim. Translated most commonly as “In the Name of God, all compassionate,
all merciful,” the deeper meaning of this phrase is “In the Name of the One
who births compassion and mercy from the womb.” This invocation of the
feminine aspect of Allah is key to an Islamic Renaissance.

Finally, there is nothing in the Quran about women wearing the veil, the
Hejab. That was certainly the custom in Arabia at that time and Muhammad’s
wives wore the Hejab to designate their special status as “Mothers of the
Believers,” but the only thing the Quran says directly is that women should
dress “modestly.” Muhammad said the same thing to men. For him, modesty of
dress was expressive of modesty of the heart. Muhammad himself, even when he
was supreme leader, never wore anything more than simple white woolen attire.

So radical were Muhammad’s reforms that the status of women in Arabia and
early Islam was higher than any other society in the world at that time.
Women in 7th century Arabia had rights not extended to most women in the West
till recent centuries over 1,000 years later. The fact that women have ended
up in such a degraded position in many contemporary Arab/Muslim counties is a
tragedy and needs to be rectified if the Islamic culture and civilization is
to flourish again as it did during the Abbasid Caliphate from the 8th - 13th
centuries when Islamic civilization was a shining light to the world.
Liberating women would have profound effects politically, economically,
culturally, artistically, and religiously. It would take the Arab Spring to a
whole new level, which is what is so desperately needed in those countries
that suffered the first Arab Spring as a stillbirth.

It is time for Islam to liberate women fully and do so upon the example of
Muhammad and the authority of the Quran that holds compassion and mercy as
the first and foremost attributes of Allah.

Written with Banafsheh Sayyad, author, Dance of Oneness





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