FUCK THE EDITOR THE INTERVIEWER AND THE INTERVIEWEE
--Arl
04/03 |
http://thesexparty.ca/public-sex/sex-and-islamic-suicide-terrorism
--hyt
03/14 |
Also: Not that Arab men = Muslim men, of course. I was just giving an example from Arabic culture.
--MK
06/22 |
Whoops, my first sentence should read: 'According to the great Arab poet of eros Nizar Kabbani (d 1998), *Arab men* feel trapped by the rigid notions of masculinity that subjugating women requires.'
--MK
06/22 |
Goodness, no, NJC. According to the great Arab poet of eros Nizar Kabbani (d 1998), feel trapped by the rigid notions of masculinity that subjugating women requires. I dont think limiting women helps men feel a strong sense of themselves anywhere--liberating women liberates men too, to become more than just one cliched role. I don't think the women's liberation movement of the 1970s is what creates confusion among young men in America--if they even *are* confused (I'm not sure what you mean by that). Vietnam, the betrayal by Nixon of a sense of trust in the office of the president, and a whole lot of other factors contributed tothe disillusionment of American men from the time of the women's movement onward.
--MK
06/22 |
Mohja,
Do Muslim men have a stronger sense of themselves and how to act in this world because of their subjugation of women? I feel that we have liberated women in this country and have grown them into strong and healthy individuals, but the result on our young men was to weaken and confuse them. How do we teach our young men to function in relationships where women are powerful without them feeling inferior and insignificant?
--NJC
06/21 |
bravo! a desperately needed voice of instrospection and clarity and a world full of fear and misunderstanding. I salute Nerve and "Ask Mohja" for the critical role you both are playing in spreading the light of understanding to the dark corners and crevices of ignorance...
ian
--ig
06/19 |
Thank you for this article. It was very informative: I learned many things that I did not know about Muslim culture. I think that articles like this are really important because they help get rid of stereotypes and false impressions that a lot of people seem to have.
--nm
06/18 |
As-salaamu alaykum, Sister Mohja.
Thanks for your commentary in your article. What you say is so true about what contemporary Muslim culture believesa about homosexuality. There is space for homosexuality but it remains as hidden as women beneath their abaadah's--it's there but no one admits it exists. However, in the West, at least, more LGBTQ Muslims are out. I can assure you that there is no going back in the "Islamic closet" and our communities will either grow in understanding (which does not mean it has to accept it) and this will help their children who come out, or continue in their mindset as they have been trained to believe in those caricatures of what homosexuality is and who is homosexual.
I appreciate your openness and we need more of it. Allah blesses us with sexuality, and when we express it in an honorable way-through a committed relationship or marriage-we have our comfort and cloak. Now that samesex marriage is permitted in some US and Canadian jurisdictions, I espouse that samesex Muslims wed even if their Muslim communities don't recognize it--I'm sure Allah will.
If you would like to talk more about the subject, please don't hesitate to contact me at Daayiee@aol.com. May Allah continue to guide and bless us all, Ameen.
Brother Daayiee
Al-Faitha Foundation
What about homosexuality?
In contemporary Muslim culture, there is pretty much no space for that range of experience. What many Muslims don't understand is that the contemporary take on Islam is so much more intolerant than it was in previous eras of Islamic history. In the eighth century, an openly omnisexual poet wrote very explicit poetry and was given a place in court. In the eleventh century, Iben Hazm in Islamic Spain wrote got a love treatise that goes on and on about kinds of love, including same-sex.
--DA
06/16 |
More Muslim countries ban the hijab than require it, and more women are forced NOT to wear it than forced to wear it, yet the latter is the only scenario that people in the West seem to care about. How come Americans never get concerned about the personal rights of women who have it ripped off their heads? Which happened in Damascus, Syria at gunpoint on Sept. 28, 1982. How come no one in the liberal West protests that university professors and parliamentarians in Turkey get fired or thrown out of office when they CHOOSE to put it on? If you are for women's right to choose, be for choice consistently.
--au
06/14 |
"Do women feel sexier when they take it off ?
Women who are covered up feel very sexy, let me tell you."
Ha ha. But those women who have no choice, who are forced to wear their garments without any say in the matter, is definitely NOT sexy.
When the Left sees oppression as liberation, then we have definitely entered a world in which Orwell would have been proud.
--srf
06/14 |
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