Muslim Grrrls

[proofrawk]

Four or five years ago, the term Sharia, which for Muslims denotes Islamic law, meant scant little to Americans. As I write this in the fall of 2010, America’s perceptions of Islam and Muslims have changed markedly. A few months from now, when Oklahoma voters march to the polls, they will face “question 755” on their ballots. Born out of the “

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[phaetonschariot]

This is really interesting, and a very telling example of how Western laws and ethics really are not always in the best interests of the ~poor oppressed foreigners~ who haven't been properly exposed to our obvious superiority. /sarcasm Even though Zainab's marriage contract is, at the heart of it, based on sexism - the idea that she needs support after the marriage ends - we have to acknowledge that the world we live in is sexist and will be for quite a long time and sometimes you need a little sexism to fight a lot of sexism. Ideally a woman would have plenty of options after divorce, sure - but right now she doesn't, and blanket reactionism against Islam would have blocked her from her rights in two different cultures, putting her in the worst of both worlds rather than the best. It's only an egocentric view of the world that lets people deny that there could be anything worthwhile in Islam, that there have never been people in the affected countries who were able to fight for compromise to protect themselves and their families at least to some degree.