Why do some Anti Islam/Muslim People act like they care about Muslim Women ?

It's a good point; they say we oppress Woman at the same time their ilk (Islamaphobes) try to insult/degrade/harm those very woman who choose to wear the veil. These people are just hypocrites and intolerant.

My wife for example always wears the Niqab outside and she is EXTREMELY uncomfortable without it. An old lady once shouted "DISGUSTING" in front of her face for wearing the Niqab but she laughed. I sometimes advise her to take it off telling her it's not Fard and I don't want harm to come to her as a result but she doesn't let go.

format_quote Originally Posted by truthseeker63

As Salamu Alaykum Why do some Anti Islam/Muslim People act like they care about Muslim Women ? I get Mad very Mad when some Non Muslims who hate Islam/Muslims talk about how Islam/Muslims oppress Women I get mad because if I hated Muslims why would I care about their Women ? By the way the same People who say Muslim Women are oppressed many of them support hate crimes that harm Muslim Women support the West bombing Muslim Women in Wars and support banning Muslim Women from wearing Veils/Hijabs by the way Im Male but I just get upset a Non Muslim Woman told once she hates Muslims because they oppress Women I asked what Religion are the Women you say Muslims are oppressing ? Answer Islam/Muslim I was 14 or 15 years of age not even a Muslim it is fake sympathy used to make Muslims look evil I don't believe they care about Muslim Women they call Muslim Women Terrorists as well as the Men I have more respect for someone who hates Islam/Muslims who admits they hate and don't care about Muslim Women than those who pretend anyone agree ? The Non Muslims have no room to talk about how Muslim Women many of their Non Muslim Women dress half naked in public.

Woman charged with hate crime against two Muslim women

King County prosecutors on Thursday charged a Burien woman with a hate crime after she allegedly kicked one Muslim woman and slammed a car door on her leg, pushed another Muslim woman and yelled epithets at both of them Saturday at a gas station in Tukwila.


http://seattletimes.com/html/localne...mwomen22m.html

Why wouldn't people care about muslim women? They are people, after all. We should all care about them. I would hope that muslims also care about non-muslim women, and men for that matter.

Sure, there are some Anti-Islam people who do it out of tribalism and hate muslims simply because they are the other, or because they have been conditioned that muslims are evil and should be hated, but that is not all Anti-Islamic people.

Most people I have spoken to who claim that Islam is oppressive to women, actually do say it out of concern for women. That may be hard to believe if you look at it as a Muslim, but it is the case. As a Muslim woman, you may wear the veil or burqa and play the Islamic female gender role willingly, to be truer to your religion, or you may do it to avoid the male gaze, etc. But many non-muslims don't know that, and don't believe that, at least for many muslim women. They think it is forced, and they will cite you cases of where women are beaten or otherwise abused, or even killed if they do not follow the cultural norms. The stories may not be true, the norms may not be from Islam (honor killings), but they do believe they are true, and they do care about the women.

It is a cultural bias at work. Western women are big on freedom, and the right to wear whatever they want, and not many of them can imagine wanting to wear a burqa or veil, so it gets associated with oppression. They really do think muslim women wear it against their will. You can tell them otherwise, but it isn't easy for them to believe.

Western feminists burned bras. They seek to "break from the shackles of paternalistic society" and empower women. They may be misinformed or simply wrong, but that is their motivation.

Of course the truth is that women in the west are hit by media and peer pressure to wear as little as possible and to celebrate and parade their bodies, etc. This too is something feminists crusade against, but not as vigorously, and they don't get too many other non-muslims joining them in this, because you don't hear allegations of women being beaten up because they don't wear a bikini to work.

So yes, Anti-Islam people are not always "pretending" to care about muslim women. Often Anti-Islamic people care very much about them.

Greetings Pygoscelis,

(smile) You are right that there are many non-Muslims do genuinely care about the mistreatment of Muslim women. And it is, unfortunately true that there are Muslim men who mistreat women (though it should be pointed out that there are non-Muslim men who mistreat women, too).

However, it is also true that the suffering of Muslim women is used by some as a pretext to justify hatred against Muslims. Worse, it can be used as a pretext by some governments and their corporate backers to interfere in other people's countries.

I would argue that truly Anti-Islam people don't care a bit about real Muslim women. But that there are people who, in ignorance, believe the propaganda about Islam, see real suffering, and and wish they could help, somehow. It's not that they are out to trash Islam and hurt Muslims. They just don't know. (smile) They can actually be pretty decent people, overall.

May Allah Guide us to a better understanding of one another.

No, I seriously doubt if they care about Muslim women. As far as I can make out, what they really care about is that Islam is put in a bad light. That's all. So they focus on isolated incidents here and there. They shout "See I told you! Islam oppresses women." And they are so good at making such a lot of noise that the whole world thinks that Islam oppresses women. I know for a fact and from personal experience that Islam does not oppress women. Let me share an example. Islamic law of inheritance states that the male children get twice the share of the property as compared to the female children. I remember reading that one of the Companions did ask the Holy Prophet (saw) whether this wasn't fair to the female children. to which the Holy Prophet (saw) replied that the division was actually unfair to the male children. Why, asked the Companion. And the Holy Prophet (saw) told him that the male children have to take care of their female siblings from their (the male children's) share of the property whereas the female children are not obligated to take care of the male children from their (the female children's) share of the property. And that's just one example of how Islam takes good care of women.

format_quote Originally Posted by Ali Mujahidin

No, I seriously doubt if they care about Muslim women. As far as I can make out, what they really care about is that Islam is put in a bad light. That's all. So they focus on isolated incidents here and there. They shout "See I told you! Islam oppresses women." And they are so good at making such a lot of noise that the whole world thinks that Islam oppresses women. I know for a fact and from personal experience that Islam does not oppress women. Let me share an example. Islamic law of inheritance states that the male children get twice the share of the property as compared to the female children. I remember reading that one of the Companions did ask the Holy Prophet (saw) whether this wasn't fair to the female children. to which the Holy Prophet (saw) replied that the division was actually unfair to the male children. Why, asked the Companion. And the Holy Prophet (saw) told him that the male children have to take care of their female siblings from their (the male children's) share of the property whereas the female children are not obligated to take care of the male children from their (the female children's) share of the property. And that's just one example of how Islam takes good care of women.

No I am not saying that they said this in the care of muslim woman ...am saying may be their perceptions about islam is wrong or may be they wants to misguide others about islam...
And as far as your example its realy awesome nd great....

format_quote Originally Posted by Ummshareef

I really don't think they realise how happy and fulflled we are. Every time they see a woman in niqaab for example they see an object of oppression but in reality it is the western woman in her skimpy miniskirt who is the one who is oppressed. They think that we are beaten every day by our husbands but do not realise that the right to discipline his wife only applies as a last resort to save her and if it is used beyond that it is beyond the bounds of Islam. They cannot get out of their mindset that men and women are the same, whereas we recognise and celebrate the differences as a great gift alhumdulillah.

Assalaamu alaikum Umm Shareef,


(sigh) I'm afraid you are leaning into stereotypes and black and white divisions. The question was about why some people who are against Islam seem to be so concerned about the oppression of Muslim women.


You know, those who would oppress their fellow humans actually love to play with stereotypes. If you start engaging oppressors in a war of stereotypes, truth and justice get lost. And humanity, as a whole, loses. And the oppressors win.


Reality is so much more shaded and diverse. A munaqqibah (a woman wearing niqab) may be very treasured by her husband and very happy. Or she might be terrorized by her husband, and unhappy. Or she may have a loveless marriage, but feel Blessed with her children. Or she may have a kind husband and be not able to have children. Or she may have an ok marriage and ok kids, and have problems with her health. Or she may love working outside of the home and... do you see? There are an unimaginable amount of different combinations of circumstances.


And the same is true of all women, whatever they wear, wherever they come from, whatever their race, ethnicity, nationality... whatever categories we tend to place people into.


When we start dividing ourselves into “us” and “them”, we are losing sight of an important point: Allah, by design, divided us, not into only two camps, but into a multitude of different groupings.


Allah Tells us in 49:13


Sahih International: O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.

Actually, the words “peoples” and “tribes” could be translated differently. The first word “shu'uban” could be understood as a large grouping of people. It seems to me that it could be a nationality, an ethnicity, a large religious, linguistic or ideological group. The word “qaba'ila” is a smaller grouping. And here, I feel that it could be a minority of some kind (linguistic,religious, etc), a clan group, a social class, maybe.

Frankly, I feel that the whole “us” versus “them” idea is born of Satanic whispering that seeks to divide and conquer we humans.

(smile) You know, we had some tensions earlier in the year in my province here in Canada. The government tried the “us” versus “them” tactic to try to whip up support for our province to become an independent state. And Muslims were the “them”. We fought this by linking up with diverse other people. There are decent Christians (of various types), atheists, agnostics, Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists, etc... as well as various Native Canadians, English-speakers, French-speakers ...(smile) you name it, we have a few of everyone. So we sought each other out and supported one another. No, we don't agree on everything. But we all felt that we didn't want to have a divided and unjust society (and we've known tensions between different communities in the past. And we know it isn't nice).

So we united.

(big smile) And the government and it's unpleasant allies were defeated. They suffered their worst electoral defeat in 30 years! And this in spite of the fact that the opposition party was not very popular.

And, subhanallah!, those links and discussions have improved relations between people to better than they were before all this unpleasantness happened.

Please, my dear sister in Islam, don't let those Satanic forces whisper to you. Do you really agree with George Bush Jr that we can divide the world neatly into two parts?

May Allah, the One Who Gently Guides, Bless you, my dear.

I think the real problem is that, for some people, there is something wrong with Islam. So with that kind of attitude, it's just too easy to find faults. Just like when you don't like somebody, you can see all his flaws. However, for people who love Islam, we know that the beauty of Islam will shine through even though some people who claim to be Muslims tarnish the image of Islam with their own misinterpretations.

As for the idea that Islam mistreats women, this is a total fallacy and an absolute lie. Yes, there are Muslim men who beat their wives. So how does this compare to the number of non-Muslim men who beat their wives? How does this compare to what Islam says, very clearly, about how to treat wives? I think even some Muslims are beginning to think that Islam encourages wife-beating. To these people, if they are here, I say "Please read the Holy Quran and the Hadith Sahih and always ask a real-life ustaz if you are in doubt".

Probably because they feel inadequate or confused due to the fact that they wrongly have their women advertising their private parts for £15 in soho, or debased on huge posters trying to sell kellogs cerial bars and underpants for multi-national corporations - one dude called me a terrorist for tearing down call girl ads from phone booths on my way back from tarawih.
(i took it as a complement )
The next day i was confronted by police and told to stop.....

They'd do well to study what the bible which their leaders claim to uphold (in order to get elected) says on the subject - Then the Quran would make more sense.

1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth*it*to heart: and merciful men*are*taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil*to come.

2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds,*each onewalking*in*his uprightness.

3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the wh*re.

4Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
against whom make ye a wide mouth,*and*draw out the tongue?
*are*ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

Isaiah 57