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Why do feminists think islam is the most feminist religion?

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    2 weeks ago

    Well I’m a muslim American myself and I know that misogyny is prevalent in our culture ... 

    But if you look at Quran, it gives women rights. It especially gives us lots of financial rights. For example, it says that women don’t have to earn money if they don’t want. Also, it says if they do earn money, they don’t have to spend a penny on their hubby or kids. But the husband is required to pay bills, grocery, child care etc 

    Also, the hubby can’t force his wife to earn money 

  • 2 weeks ago

    One such claim I have heard, this was back at Texas A & M back in the late 70s is, Islam has given women the right to keep their own names and their money. Another explanation might be women have been owning and running their own businesses since before Islam itself. However; when you combine this with the fact women are known to obey their husbands you start to think how. One of the main rules of Islam is a man cannot tell his wife to give him her money, even if; she makes more money than he. Although; many will when asked; that he can't tell her to get a job, though, many will; when told to do so.  

  • RoVale
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    They don't think that way. If anything, it's conservative religious groups that feel envious of Muslims because they live in a country that doesn't approve of arranged marriages, virginity exams, honor killings, and bedding ceremonies.

  • liz
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    Not sure why anyone would make that claim.  Most people think Islam is a bit backwards with regards to equality.  Who believes Islam is a feminist religion? I know GS is the perfect place to make up nonsense as if it’s true just to make some weird point, but it’s still meant to be vaguely convincing if you’re going to do it. 

  • Andy C
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    It's just very prominently sexist. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    I've never even met a Muslim feminist who thinks that. In fact growing up in that faith is what inspired them to become feminists. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    "Why do feminists think islam is the most feminist religion?"

    Any "good feminist" of today must follow along with the critical theory ideology that the movement is involved with. That ideology mandates that Islam and its adherents, Muslims, are "oppressed" by Christianity and its adherents. No kidding! You couldn't make this stuff up!

    So even a person who self-identified as a feminist based on the idea of advocating for women and promoting gender equality, that had some qualms or concerns about Islamic teachings on women, and dared to mention them in public, would be shamed as an "Islamophobe" and potentially "cancelled" or ostracized from within the feminist movement.

    Classic feminism died when it accepted "intersectionality", as that was its entry into cultural Marxism and the death of simple women's advocacy through equal Rights, as feminism.  Today, feminism is much more complicated, and is in complete alignment with critical theory, even when that works against women's interests.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    Lol. No. They just can't attack Islam much because Muslims are one of the groups the liberal elite have decided to pander to. 

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