11-21-2004, 12:38 AM
Assalamu alaikum,
Anyabwile, it seems we agree on everything... we are just saying it in different ways. I don't have time right now to make a detailed response, but I will just reiterate that everything on his list is portrayed as a problem coming from feminism, or more specifically, the women who are feminists. But in actuality, feminism is a problem that is a result of this society, so he should be speaking out against the society, because it is society that sees it acceptable for a woman to use her beauty to get what she wants, and whatever else we are mentioning here. It's a social problem, not a woman problem.
I agree with you on everything you say about relationships between a man and a woman, and I think this guy is basically trying to get at the same thing... but he's blaming the wrong phenomenon. He should not be fighting feminism -- there's nothing wrong with the *right* kind of feminism, as found in Islam -- he should be fighting the society that has produced this flawed sense of feminism.
salam alaikum
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