Polygamy - Among Muslims And Westerns

[Rehmat]

How unfair and wrong !

Asslam-o-Aliakum


How true - But in the West "Everything is Kosher in love and war", especially, when it comes to lying against its 'adversaries'


"The West misunderstands Islam largely because we’ve got a deep cultural prejudice that is as deeply ingrained as our anti-Semitism, which developed alongside it from about the time of the Crusades. We’ve got into the habit of projecting our own shortcomings onto Islam, just as we did upon the Jews.


Sexual repression is just one issue the West projects upon Islam. Class and gender also take on this distortion. Armstrong continues, "At a time in the Middle Ages when Europe was extremely hierarchical, we blamed Islam for giving too much power to menials like slaves and women. Today we’ve thrown that off and we blame Islam for being oppressive to women. Again, we’ve reversed the old stereotype, not because we’ve found out anything about Islam necessarily, but because we’ve got into a cultural habit of making Islam the opposite of us." - Says the celebrated British Christian Theologist (Nun for 20 years), and historian Karen Armstrong).


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