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- From: mrahman@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Mushfiqur Rahman)
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- Subject: Re: Islam Preaching Equality
- Message-ID: <MRAHMAN.92Dec21100222@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:02:22 GMT
- References: <1gqg4qINNmf9@bailey.cs.yale.edu> <18DEC199217545263@vxcrna.cern.ch>
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- In-Reply-To: neep@sgi.elec.uq.oz.au's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:35:27 GMT
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- In article <neep.724908927@sgi.elec.uq.oz.au> neep@sgi.elec.uq.oz.au (Neep Hazarika) writes:
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- >In article <1gqg4qINNmf9@bailey.cs.yale.edu>, ahmed%bailey@cs.yale.edu (Shakil Waiz Ahmed) writes...
- >>..deleted
- >>-- Shakil
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- > Quranic laws were written for a society which was tribal and
- > male dominant, and if we look at it in this prospective then it
- > easy to understand why these laws are as they are. Indeed they
- > were a step forward at that time.....
-
- and for that society. But when Islam spread beyond Arabia to societies where
- the status of women that Muhammed envisaged HAD been achieved, the
- misinterpretation of the words of the Prophet by the nomadic crusaders (whose
- tribal base could not be expected to have had any philosophical foundations)
- led to degradation of the social status of women. Thus, for instance, in Iran
-
- and India, where women were on a par with men, the advent of Islam dragged
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- them back to the medeival ages, which was definitely NOT what the Prophet
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- intended.
-
- Cheers,
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- I will follow Naeem's startegy here. Now that you (Neep) have
- enlighetned us of such a fact, you will surely provide oodles and
- oodles of evidence to substantiate your argument.
-
- Tushu
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- Neep Hazarika
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