I hear you. But, I would say not any more than wage gaps in the US are a Christian problem. Fire can be used to cook or used to burn down your house. It’s not fire that’s inherently good or bad. It’s whose hands it’s in and how they’re using it.
Reducing the argument to “if Islam/religion was gone everything would be fixed” is simply oversimplification of complex socio-cultural problems between the sexes that exist across the entire world, often where Abrahamic faiths don’t even exist traditionally. I mean places they’ve abolished religion should be women led utopias accepting of all genders and sexual expressions right? But we don’t see that. They just change tactics using biological sciences or dogmatic “hunter gatherer, this is how it’s always been” conservatism.
Also, faith and religion are not automatically synonymous. Religion implies societal hierarchy, whereas faith is personal. I stand by Islam in and of itself existing isn’t the primary problem here. She may be provoking power with antiquated laws surrounding it, triggering an unevenly applied ‘blasphemy’ law, but that’s not Islam, that is the patriarchal machine whirring to life to oppress a woman challenging their systemic and deep seated cultural bias.
See: Fatema Mernissi and Asma Lamrabet (they are Islamic feminists of Moroccan origin that can do a better job of explaining this than me.)
I hear you. But, I would say not any more than wage gaps in the US are a Christian problem. Fire can be used to cook or used to burn down your house. It’s not fire that’s inherently good or bad. It’s whose hands it’s in and how they’re using it.
Reducing the argument to “if Islam/religion was gone everything would be fixed” is simply oversimplification of complex socio-cultural problems between the sexes that exist across the entire world, often where Abrahamic faiths don’t even exist traditionally. I mean places they’ve abolished religion should be women led utopias accepting of all genders and sexual expressions right? But we don’t see that. They just change tactics using biological sciences or dogmatic “hunter gatherer, this is how it’s always been” conservatism.
Also, faith and religion are not automatically synonymous. Religion implies societal hierarchy, whereas faith is personal. I stand by Islam in and of itself existing isn’t the primary problem here. She may be provoking power with antiquated laws surrounding it, triggering an unevenly applied ‘blasphemy’ law, but that’s not Islam, that is the patriarchal machine whirring to life to oppress a woman challenging their systemic and deep seated cultural bias.
See: Fatema Mernissi and Asma Lamrabet (they are Islamic feminists of Moroccan origin that can do a better job of explaining this than me.)