{"id":64,"date":"2022-03-10T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2022\/03\/10\/an-argument-that-islam-is-feminist\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T07:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:53:26","slug":"an-argument-that-islam-is-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2022\/03\/10\/an-argument-that-islam-is-feminist\/","title":{"rendered":"An argument that Islam is feminist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mpvusa\/\">Muslims for Progressive Values<\/a> noted on its Facebook page in March:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>A majority of contemporary Muslim religious leaders are not &#8216;contemporary&#8217; in their worldview and are regressive and misogynistic which are contrary to the actual roles Muslim women were and played, during Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s time.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Then they added some points to complement a meme they shared (which I&#8217;m sharing after this):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Hajra was Prophet Abraham&#8217;s second wife. <\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Maryam is Mary, mother of Jesus (yes, there is a whole chapter about her in the Quran),<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Khadijah was a very successful trader and financed the survival of the first converts (she couldn&#8217;t be successful if she was going to follow the contemporary imam&#8217;s preaching of &#8220;a women&#8217;s place is at home&#8221; farcity),<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Aisha was Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s wife after Khadijah passed away (she didn&#8217;t stay home either),<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Umm Waraqa was the first female imam appointed by Prophet Muhammad.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Zaynab&#8217;s husband never converted because Muslim women CAN marry non-Muslim men. <\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>If you are a Muslim and attend a local mosque, it is your responsibility to challenge your religious authorities on these points.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here is the meme they were referring to:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgkTYH0JYStpJb3jHPpDvTW_KI7fBdOPoOdFPa9r14SbbyqGyzr0Oweo5C3OAQaUSm_lgjWXNPsNoThQKFJnNOhxa7UfplI-teCzrEHG6byHTLTqtHNNiKmhYDA-yTTysdJBi-H6ARvKUN34-fifdmhiA7rWIR3nMTnXrpVwZj2OPsvN-sfOUDLwVGk=s960\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"960\" data-original-width=\"718\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgkTYH0JYStpJb3jHPpDvTW_KI7fBdOPoOdFPa9r14SbbyqGyzr0Oweo5C3OAQaUSm_lgjWXNPsNoThQKFJnNOhxa7UfplI-teCzrEHG6byHTLTqtHNNiKmhYDA-yTTysdJBi-H6ARvKUN34-fifdmhiA7rWIR3nMTnXrpVwZj2OPsvN-sfOUDLwVGk=s320\" width=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting argument, like those made for feminism and women&#8217;s leadership in Christianity as well. I&#8217;m not sure how much of it I buy &#8211; I feel like you can find plenty of arguments in the writings regarding both Islam and Christianity that make entirely different arguments. But if you are going to stick with a religion, might as well arm yourself with the dogma that supports your position.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims for Progressive Values noted on its Facebook page in March:&nbsp; A majority of contemporary Muslim religious leaders are not &#8216;contemporary&#8217; in their worldview and are regressive and misogynistic which are contrary to the actual roles Muslim women were and played, during Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s time.&nbsp; Then they added some points to complement a meme they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,985,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-religion","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}