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Picture: Islam. Arabic. You are a big boy. Do you want me to come out and play?
The Masque of Islam. Why do Muslim men hate Muslim women? And in the Arab world, why is Islam so bad at sex?
Ninety per cent of women who have ever been married in Egypt have had their genitals mutilated in the name of Muslim modesty. Not one Arab country is in the top one hundred nations as ranked by gender equality. Saudi Arabian women have been prosecuted for daring to drive a car. In Sudan, women are lashed for wearing trousers.
A timely call for sexual revolution and liberation across the Arab world has been issued by the American-Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy. She argues that Arab men hate Arab women, and it shows in the manifest subjugation of women in countries such as Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
The pulsating heart of misogyny in the Middle East has barely been touched by the Arab Spring, despite the fact that women were, and are, prominent in fomenting that necessary and ongoing political revolution.
There are only eight women in Egypt's new five hundred seat parliament. There is not one single female presidential candidate. Domestic violence, forced marriage and female genital mutilation are still part of the status quo across a region covering more than twenty countries and three hundred and fifty million people.
After the many Western-manipulated Arab Spring uprisings, all is still considered well with the world so long as women are covered up, anchored to the home, denied the simple mobility of getting into their own cars, forced to get permission from men to travel, and unable to marry or divorce without the blessing of a male minder.
An entire political and economic system, one that treats half of humanity like animal sex-slaves, Eltahawy suggests, must be destroyed along with the other more obvious tyrannies choking off the region from its future. Until the rage shifts from the Arab oppressors in their presidential palaces to the Arab oppressors on the street and in Arab homes, the Arab revolution has hardly even begun.
Some Arab opinion-formers take issue with Mona Eltahawy and argue that the core problem is not about Arab men hating Arab women; rather it is about monotheistic religions such as Islam, Judaism and Churchianity hating women. These systematised spiritual fascisms, at least in their orthodox expressions, continually reinforce patriarchal standards and patterns which have become anachronistic and historically quaint. There is no harmony possible between monotheism and women's rights. The core teachings of these man-machinations deliberately deny women their human dignity and their human rights.
But there is an Arab in the wood pile here. Many inarticulate and uneducated Arab women appear to support such negative notions of femininity. They endorse the alpha male machinations, reinforcing the patriarchal system, obedience, submission and unquestioning financial dependence. There are many Arab women who do not believe in women playing a role in business or demanding their political rights. And this is as much for cultural, as for religious, reasons.
In Lebanon, the law still discriminates against women. There is no law that protects women from domestic violence. A husband can violate his wife, and even rape her, and there is no legal safeguard to protect her. It was only two months ago that Lebanon passed a draft law that banned honour killings. Before then, if a father or brother thought a woman from his family was seeing another man, he could kill her and would spend no more than two months in jail.
Some modern, educated, Arab women think that Mona Eltahawy is overusing the word "hate" in her analysis. They point out that many Arab men are repressed too. It is not hatred of women, but fear of women which is the primary cause of patriarchal Islamic anti-femininity.
There is a lot of unaddressed frustration among men in the Arab world. This begins with sexual frustration and the frustration of not being able to speak out freely in Muslim cultures, and ends with the rage of having no realistic political freedoms or options.
An acknowledged problem within many Arab societies, still, is a paralysing absence, through religious indoctrination, of any developed kind of emotional intelligence. Arab women are in love with their sons instead of their husbands, and Arab men are in love with their mothers instead of their wives. In Arab Street, if you are a woman without a son, Allah has no use for you.
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Picture: Islam. Arabic. You are a big boy. Do you want me to come out and play?
The Masque of Islam. Why do Muslim men hate Muslim women? And in the Arab world, why is Islam so bad at sex?
Ninety per cent of women who have ever been married in Egypt have had their genitals mutilated in the name of Muslim modesty. Not one Arab country is in the top one hundred nations as ranked by gender equality. Saudi Arabian women have been prosecuted for daring to drive a car. In Sudan, women are lashed for wearing trousers.
A timely call for sexual revolution and liberation across the Arab world has been issued by the American-Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy. She argues that Arab men hate Arab women, and it shows in the manifest subjugation of women in countries such as Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
The pulsating heart of misogyny in the Middle East has barely been touched by the Arab Spring, despite the fact that women were, and are, prominent in fomenting that necessary and ongoing political revolution.
There are only eight women in Egypt's new five hundred seat parliament. There is not one single female presidential candidate. Domestic violence, forced marriage and female genital mutilation are still part of the status quo across a region covering more than twenty countries and three hundred and fifty million people.
After the many Western-manipulated Arab Spring uprisings, all is still considered well with the world so long as women are covered up, anchored to the home, denied the simple mobility of getting into their own cars, forced to get permission from men to travel, and unable to marry or divorce without the blessing of a male minder.
An entire political and economic system, one that treats half of humanity like animal sex-slaves, Eltahawy suggests, must be destroyed along with the other more obvious tyrannies choking off the region from its future. Until the rage shifts from the Arab oppressors in their presidential palaces to the Arab oppressors on the street and in Arab homes, the Arab revolution has hardly even begun.
Some Arab opinion-formers take issue with Mona Eltahawy and argue that the core problem is not about Arab men hating Arab women; rather it is about monotheistic religions such as Islam, Judaism and Churchianity hating women. These systematised spiritual fascisms, at least in their orthodox expressions, continually reinforce patriarchal standards and patterns which have become anachronistic and historically quaint. There is no harmony possible between monotheism and women's rights. The core teachings of these man-machinations deliberately deny women their human dignity and their human rights.
But there is an Arab in the wood pile here. Many inarticulate and uneducated Arab women appear to support such negative notions of femininity. They endorse the alpha male machinations, reinforcing the patriarchal system, obedience, submission and unquestioning financial dependence. There are many Arab women who do not believe in women playing a role in business or demanding their political rights. And this is as much for cultural, as for religious, reasons.
In Lebanon, the law still discriminates against women. There is no law that protects women from domestic violence. A husband can violate his wife, and even rape her, and there is no legal safeguard to protect her. It was only two months ago that Lebanon passed a draft law that banned honour killings. Before then, if a father or brother thought a woman from his family was seeing another man, he could kill her and would spend no more than two months in jail.
Some modern, educated, Arab women think that Mona Eltahawy is overusing the word "hate" in her analysis. They point out that many Arab men are repressed too. It is not hatred of women, but fear of women which is the primary cause of patriarchal Islamic anti-femininity.
There is a lot of unaddressed frustration among men in the Arab world. This begins with sexual frustration and the frustration of not being able to speak out freely in Muslim cultures, and ends with the rage of having no realistic political freedoms or options.
An acknowledged problem within many Arab societies, still, is a paralysing absence, through religious indoctrination, of any developed kind of emotional intelligence. Arab women are in love with their sons instead of their husbands, and Arab men are in love with their mothers instead of their wives. In Arab Street, if you are a woman without a son, Allah has no use for you.
5 comments:
Wow I did not know this was a anti- Islam blog it seems like not such a goo mach to anything related with the Cabal but you never know
NO SONNY
THIS IS A PRO-WOMAN AND PRO PERSONAL RIGHTS BLOG.
SOMETHING ABOUT BEING AWARE!
Thank you for helping to opening the eyes of the blind John. I welcome your articles on human/womens rights - all the world should know about these atrocities.
This world is full of atrocities. Many, many are done under the cover of 'religion' and are nothing less than demonic. Nothing less. This includes human-perverted versions of Christianity. However...
"There is no harmony possible between monotheism and women's rights."
This statement is nonsensical when it comes to the God of the Bible.
First, monotheism is not man-invented. Polytheism is. Almost all religions have been polytheistic, exported out of human imagination and experience. Monotheism swims against that tide.
Second, true, Biblical Christianity, of both the Old and New Testaments, show a unique and singular God who is continually working to advance the rights and respect of women. Not political correctness, mind you. That's merely another man-made false religion. Humanity has chosen to operate under barbarism and cruelty. It does not come from God's will.
Old Testament: One of Adam's ribs was used in Eve's creation. She was not to rule him, neither was she to be abused and trampled underfoot. She was to stand beside him, an equal, loved and befriended.
Old Testament: Unjust man-made customs of inheritance shut out females. Did God like that? No. Take a look at Numbers 27:1-9. This was revolutionary.
New Testament: There were evil men, hiding under "religion", who couldn't wait to execute a woman they entrapped in adultery. What did God say and do? John 8:3-11
New Testament: God's messenger, Paul, told husbands to love their wives, in no uncertain terms. Love does not abuse, mistreat, torture, rape, or defraud. Period. Ephesians 5:25
The gentleman who wrote this article is likely well-informed concerning false Christianity and false Christians. His disgust is understandable. It is disgusting. But that falseness does not represent the truth about the God of the Bible.
Thank you for this article. I reposted to bring awareness in Western World about our struggle in Islamic Nations. I am a former muslim woman who is now a christian convert living in US. I began this website for all people and also my people...Father wants our voices to be heard. You can reach out Fireflies in FM..God bless you in your radical humanity and radical militant approach agaist human rights. Wear it like an armor....It suits you well!
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