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Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under islam. it is an unfounded argument. it is not islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.
-Shirin Ebadi
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Whenever Women Protest And Ask For Their

Shirin Ebadi
Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under islam. it is an unfounded argument. it is not islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.
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Whenever muslim women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under islam. it is an unfounded argument. it is not islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants. it utilizes psychology to say that women are emotional. it utilizes medical science to say that men's brains are formed in such a way that they are better able to understand concepts. these are all hypotheses. none of this has been proven.
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It's perfectly ok that there are certain people who do not accept islam at all. therefore, to announce that i am a muslim can rub some people the wrong way. but my aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of islam have been misusing islam. they violate these rights and then seek refuge behind the argument that islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy. but this is basically to save face. in fact, i'm promoting democracy. and i'm saying that islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.
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There is no "true islam," just different interpretations. since i brought up patriarchy, let me make one thing clear. i am not singling out men; i am addressing the issue of inequality of genders. a patriarchy does not only not accept the equality of the sexes, it also has a hard time understanding the principles of democracy and its essence. women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. this is the culture we need to resist and fight.
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We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. rights are grand things, divine things in this world of god's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. i can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.
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If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. rome and cardinal o'connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that god is the father and jesus is his son, there were only male disciples, etc. they are defending a patriarchal church with a patriarchal god. we must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of god.
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