Religion privilege is leaving women with no other choice but to wear hijab so they can get married.
you got me.
i wore it so them muslim bois can love me downnn.
10 years later and i still don’t have a ring on it, time for me to take the next step. about to go cover my face.
thankyouthisisreligionprivilegeforopeningmyeyesaboutmyhijab
Thousands of Egyptian Muslims perform evening prayers called “Tahajjud” during Laylat al-Qadr in the holy month of Ramadan at Al Qaed Ibrahim Mosque in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, on August 27, 2011. Laylat al-Qadr, or Night of Decree, is the night the Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) by the angel Jibreel. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
- Cassie Williams, a surfer from South California, and also, a revert to the religion of Islam,describes her take on various issues and how “admittedly, I subconsciously adopted some of the stereotypes about Muslim women” before she reverted.
- Naglaa Ali Mahmoud, the wife of Egypt’s new leader, Mohamed Morsi, describes the role of Muslim women in Egypt and wishes to “regress from the country’s male-dominated public sphere.”
- Manal Sharif, the (arguably) first Saudi woman who dared to drive, reports that after Saudi officials jailed, insulted, and threatened Manal for driving in Saudi without a Male guardian; she said “I believe if women want to change their reality, it will change. If women are silent, I don’t think anything will change. Rights are never given. Rights are taken.”
- Modern Pakistani Muslim Dr. Alia Khan-Hudson publishes a novel that describes her own life’s struggle of culture, religion, education, and pain in her novel “The Last Day in Karachi: Through the Ring of Fire.”
- Women Only Conference in Malaysia will be set this Saturday for Muslim and Non-Muslim women to discuss ways they can empower themselves, descibes CEO Tawfique Choudhoury.
I don’t ever recall being oppressed ladies, have you?
Taraweeh, Ramadan 2011. (by Alaa AliEddin)
WTF is this shit?
Not seeing what’s confusing about it..
Well, I’m Muslim. And as a Muslim, I see this as offensive. I don’t care if you’re atheist or not. Or if someone believes in hell or not. What I do care about is this blatant disrespect of Islam, with a lack of education about its teachings.
I can understand being upset about the inflammatory remarks (hence them being inflammatory), but with all respect to you as a person, whether or not you consider Islam to be a violent religion or not doesn’t change the objective fact that it is. The Quran preaches (and I’m not trying to single out Muslims, the Bible is just as bad) violence against non-believers, and this sign, while you may call it extreme and radical, is likely just strict adherence and strong faith.
I can’t argue with you that Islam does not advocate any sort of violence. That would be a blatant lie. What we are taught though (and this is what the Quran teaches us) is that we could fight in self defense (and there’s always a ‘and to forgive is better’ rule to all self defense). Also, many of the Quranic verses that can be interpreted as violence needs to be put in a historical context, as in being revealed at a certain time to the Prophet when he was attacked. It does not necessarily have much relevance to today. But we are given the right to self defense. The sign is the mans personal opinion, and yes, it is extremely crazy. Would he be able to prove it in the Quran that ‘those against Islam must be beheaded’? No. I’ve read the Quran and studied Islamic history plenty of times to know that being against Islam or not liking it does not warrant any violence.
WTF is this shit?
Not seeing what’s confusing about it..
Well, I’m Muslim. And as a Muslim, I see this as offensive. I don’t care if you’re atheist or not. Or if someone believes in hell or not. What I do care about is this blatant disrespect of Islam, with a lack of education about its teachings.
![Wait. I don’t understand this. Or at least I don’t want to. So 9/11 happened because of religion as opposed to a few extremists? That we’d still have the towers if we didn’t have ‘religion’ which in this equation means Islam? Because as a Muslim I can assure you a million and one times that this is not Islam but a small group of men. So don’t imagine ‘no religion’, but imagine a world where religion [and all its followers] weren’t blamed and foreign policies don’t give a few crazy people a motive to want to hurt others.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrd9i5sSy31ql1dlpo1_500.jpg)
Wait. I don’t understand this. Or at least I don’t want to. So 9/11 happened because of religion as opposed to a few extremists? That we’d still have the towers if we didn’t have ‘religion’ which in this equation means Islam? Because as a Muslim I can assure you a million and one times that this is not Islam but a small group of men. So don’t imagine ‘no religion’, but imagine a world where religion [and all its followers] weren’t blamed and foreign policies don’t give a few crazy people a motive to want to hurt others.
(via thelittlephilosopher)
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