1501126121 (N) by Glenn Beck

Author:Glenn Beck [Beck, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

LIE #10

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“ISLAM RESPECTS THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN.”

“While it needs to be acknowledged that atrocities have been committed against women overseas in the name of Islam, it also needs to be acknowledged that such practices have no basis in the religion itself. More than 1400 years ago Islam afforded women rights comparable to those in our contemporary international human rights documents.”

—Ghena Krayem and Haisam Farache, op-ed, Sydney Morning Herald

“Contrary to how popular culture portrays Muslim women’s rights and privileges, Islam gives women many rights, including the right to inherit, to work outside the home, and to be educated. As in all cultures and communities, these rights are often violated. This is the result of the intersection of Islam with existing cultural norms, which may reflect male-dominated societies. In Muslim communities, women often have a strong influence in the family, the workplace, the religion and society in general.”

—“Beliefs and Daily Lives of Muslims,” PBS Frontline

Violent acts of terrorism in the name of Islam are all too common. Less visible, but no less shocking, are the individual acts of cruelty perpetrated against women in the name of radical Islam. While some would undoubtedly prefer to ignore this fact, those who commit these attacks can easily find justification for them under Islamic law.

Islam has apologists both inside and outside the faith who argue that there is nothing in the teachings of the religion that could lead to repression or violence against women. To them, it’s always something else, some sinister outside force that creates a situation for which Islam is unjustly blamed.

Two Australian Muslims, an imam and a scholar in Islamic family law, cowrote a disturbing op-ed defending sharia that was published in the Sydney Morning Herald in 2008. In it they claimed that Islam pioneered the field of women’s rights centuries ago and that “atrocities . . . committed against women overseas in the name of Islam”—which they at least acknowledge have occurred—“have no basis in the religion itself.” Instead, they blame “other factors, notably cultural practices alien to the religion itself.”

The television program Frontline, which airs on the U.S. government–subsidized Public Broadcasting Service, takes the blame game a level further. According to its “Teachers Guide” on the “Beliefs and Daily Lives of Muslims,” the violation of the rights of women in Muslim communities “is the result of the intersection of Islam with existing cultural norms, which may reflect male-dominated societies.” Islam itself, they seem to suggest, is a feminist paradise, upset only by a violent patriarchy that is separate and apart from the religion itself.

In fact, the Quran does seem to back up the idea that women—at least Muslim women—are on equal footing with men, at least when it comes to rewarding their faith:

So their Lord accepted of them (their supplication and answered them), “Never will I allow to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female. You are (members) one of another. . . .” (Quran 3:195)

Whoever works righteousness, whether male or female, while

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