Does Islam Really Treat Women Bad?

I agree to you. I have personally seen muslim men treat their wife with respect and love, and have an excellent husband-wife co-ordination like any other human beings. It is wrong to pinpoint only muslims stating that they are the only ones who treat their women bad. I guess its a typical western trait who tries to show everything and everyone in Islam is bad.

I'd say it runs the gamut across the Near East/North Africa, and the differences we see generally are the difference between theory and praxis.

Just last week here in Cairo, on the night of the first day of the Eid, right downtown on Sharia Talaat Harb, a mob of men tore apart a cinema box office, apparently because the movie opening that night was sold out, and proceeded to sexually harass, molest and assault any and every woman they could find, whether unveiled, hijabed, or niqabed. This went on for more than 4 hours, with the police standing by and doing nothing. For days there was nothing reported in the mainstream media, but now the national papers in Cairo are starting to report it, but only in order to publish official government denials about it, and to denounce the independent journalists who managed to take photographs and report it on their blogs. It was an extremely ugly incident, but nothing will happen to the perpetrators, and I doubt I will see this story in the international media.

Now, a strict textual reading of Islam obviously inveighs against this sort of behavior. And yet, I don't think that mob of men was solely composed of Coptic Christians. Sexual harassment and assault is notoriously underreported here in Egypt, as it is elsewhere in the Muslim world. So while I would agree with you that Islam does not treat women badly, I would not agree that all Muslims treat women well. There are hypocrites everywhere - not everyone practices what he preaches, be he Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Pagan, or even Atheist.

I'm sorry you feel like Islam takes a beating in the Western-dominated global media. I'm inclined to agree with you - I think the positive stories go underreported. But I take issue with your absolutist position - Islam may in fact advocate everything you say it does. But many Islamic countries deny these rights to women. And the closing ranks/denial position taken by many people in this part of the world doesn't help - when the grand mufti of Australia made his uncovered women = cat meat comments, I read a list of reader comments on the story on the BBC webpage, and while many Muslim women denounced the imam, virtually every comment by a man with a Muslim name defended him.

I'm not a Christian, but if Billy Graham makes some dreadful comment about Islam, I expect Christians I know to disavow him and his poisonous vision of Christianity. Followers of Christ should NOT preach intolerance or hatred. Period, dot. I equally expect the Muslim community, the true followers of Islam, to denounce, not defend, those clerics who twist and defile the sacred words of the Qur'an and the Hadith to their personal pathology.

RICH BRO

“The Muslim religion was founded by Muhammed to justify his sinful and narcissistic nature.”

No Islam wasn’t founded by Muhammad (pbuh) but was completed then as he spread the word of the Quran which was revealed to him. And we also obtained the Hadith which give us answers to areas that the Quran doesn’t cover. In one Hadith is states that there was approx 124,000 Prophets starting with Adam and ending with Muhammad (pbuh). Islam began with Adam and Eve and will go on till the day of judgment.

“If Islam really came down from God, and it was righteous and good, then it would not need rationalizations and lame excuses to defend it!”

I bet you think Islam means terrorism well if so then why arnt 1.4 billion Muslims bombing the world right now? If you bother to research and discuss this issue you will realise. What lame excuses have we given? The mass media hides our speeches so what can we do about that? There is still a Muslim scholar who wants to debate with the Pope and their not letting him.

“Jesus spoke the truth unencumbered by reasoning's and justifications because His word cannot stand up to any indictments.”

Whatever Jesus (pbuh) said the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) has said better.

“Not so with many Islamic rules and regulations that go against what is upright, good, and merciful.”

Are you blind?

“For instance this crazy procedure that a Muslim man does on his wedding night!”

Its tradition and is not in Islam, don’t judge Islam by the Muslims but by the Holy books.

scarlettt

Men and women in Islam are equal the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) gave women rights. Don’t judge Islam by the Muslims but by the teachings.

And if any one thinks Islam isnt the truth please feal free to vissit www.yanabi.com and debate? Unless your brainwashed

The Muslim religion was founded by Muhammed to justify his sinful and narcissistic nature.

If Islam really came down from God, and it was righteous and good, then it would not need rationalizations and lame excuses to defend it!

Jesus spoke the truth unencumbered by reasoning's and justifications because His word cannot stand up to any indictments.

Not so with many Islamic rules and regulations that go against what is upright, good, and merciful.

For instance this crazy procedure that a Muslim man does on his wedding night!

http://www.fatwa-online.com/fataawa/marriage/sexua...

Not at all. Islam is the only religion which gives woman the rights she really deserves . Study Quran with understanding and you will find the correct answer.

I love islam and proud to be a MUSLIM. And my wife loves me a lot and i love her too much as well

What you are posting is Islamic propaganda.

The following verse from Koran 4.34 illustrates the status and the nature of woman, as is determined again by Allah:

“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the others and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you take no further action against them. Allah is high, supreme.”

None of the patriarchal religions do women justice.

After conversations with some muslim women, reading the Koran and researching Sharia laws I am sure glad that I do not live under an Islamic regime.

http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?ContentID=21373527...

This picture was sent to Dr. Homa Darabi from a woman in Iran.This picture was taken 20 days after she was lashed fifty times for being present at a family gathering where men other than her father and brother were present. Her crime? She is a single woman. It is forbidden for women to be present under the same roof with men other than their close relatives (father, brother and son) without proper hijab.

http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?ContentID=21373527...

No, Islam does not treat women badly. Of course that is only if the followers were to follow the Quaran word for word. Christians abuse the word of the bible so does the Muslims abuse the word of the Quaran. The truth is it is not Islam that treat women bad. The governments and male family who exploit the word of quaran to impose their own will on women and abuse them. There is no religion that can be associated with the treatment of women good or bad. It is the people that pervert their teachings and abuse women.

NO, that's a load of crap. Islam doesn't treat women bad.

if any Muslim woman is treated badly it's because the man is BAD not his religion.

women abuse here in the US is far worse than any middle eastern country. and we all know it.

Islam and it's followers treat women with the up most respect love and affection.We are treated equally in Islam something western society although portrays it's females to have, but in reality that is not the case.