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Pastimes : Understanding Islam
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To: Thomas M. who wrote (25)10/1/2001 3:20:15 AM
From: uu  Read Replies (1) of 2926
 
Tom:
> "Islam should be viewed as a religion that had immensely improved the status of women and had granted them many rights that the modern world has recognized only this century."

I read your above statement and also the article you pointed out. And then I go back to Koran and now I am bit baffled (to say the least).

How can you justify Koran saying the following:

Women's mind is deficient
Mohammed said, " The witness of a woman is equal to half of that of a man because of the deficiency of the woman's mind" Hadith vol. 3:826

What positive spin can possibly be put on above statement?

A husband may punish his wife by beating her or abstaining from sexual relations with her
" women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them, refuse to share their beds, beat them. Surah 4:34


I have a hard time buying into the spin that the wife beating part was meant to provide rather a limit of punishment in the culture from where the religion was born. In otherwords the spin is that Koran simply tried to improve women's conditions by putting a limit on the punishment they were receving by their husband in the culture from where the religion was born.

Why Koran did not go all the way of abandoning such barbaric behavior toward women (and other controversial teachings)? How can then Islam be anything but a cult rather than a universally acceptable ideology, if it was trying to provide a progressive framework for a very "focused audience" having similar mind set and cultural background?
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