If you recognize the difference between culture and Islam then why do you keep bring this issue of the groom giving money to the bride’s father? Your not still confused cultures with Islam are you?
I keep bringing it up because it is relevant. What Muslim boys do - harrass women on the streets - is relevant and caused by many factors some of which are Islamic. Now the justification given for the hijab was the behaviour of those boys. I keep pointing out the only solution is to change those boys' behaviour. You can change their behaviour so that they behave Islamically if you like, but their behaviour needs to change.
As for the money changing hands, Islam permits, and even encourages, polygamy. This is going to have many effects one of which is that women will be in short supply - more single men than women. It means that a Father can demand money when his daughter marries. And in most Muslim countries he does. It may not be Islamic, it may be against Islam even, but it is also an inevitable consequence of Islamic law.
Are we talking about Islam here or culture? This is a country with its own problems- this country has been in war all its life and you want to compare it to a Western country. Look at the history of the Afghan people and you’ll understand why they are in this state.
And yet you are silent about the plight of your sisters and so very eloquent about the plight of kafir women. Why is that?
Gets this point this is not Islamic- selling women as commodities- that’s a thing of the West. We are addressing your problems here and you are running away from it.
Except as we all know women are not bought and sold in the West. They are in the Muslim world - whether that is Islamic or not. As for the record, could you please provide me with any evidence that says a Father cannot accept money for the hand of his daughter in Islam?
The problems here are not of Western women but of Muslim women. Why are you so silent on women actually being bought and sold as commodities and so very loud on the subject of women who are not bought and sold but make foolish choices?
'Rape of a female' - Long-term national recorded crime trend
What is the solution to this promblem?
No idea. Harsher punishments I expect.
Ok now you are getting emotional here. I don’t know which Muslim told you that a Kufr country has no benefits- Because why would there be so much Muslims here? We are only here to get back what was taken from us.
Really? What do you think was taken from you?
Did her Christian up bring tell her to become a Muslim? What helped her become a Muslim her western values? Or did she just want to run away from your sex, drugs and rock and roll society? Like many Western women converts to Islam.
Who knows what helped her become a Muslim - her Christian upbringing probably. But the point remains - she is not a good example of the freedom of Muslim women to publish because, of course, she is a convert. Had she been born and raised in the Muslim world outside Kaffirdom, she would not have been able to write a word - like virtually all her sisters in Islam. Where are the Islamic equivalents of Jane Austen? Anyone know a single major female writer in the Muslim world between, let's say, 800 and 1800 AD?
Why are your educated, so-called free women converting to Islam??? Or maybe there is a big ibn laden look a like with a cane telling them to convert or he’ll beat them.
Western women are not commodities to be bought and sold. They are free to do what they like within minor limits and hence marry who they like. They often meet nice boys at University and are allowed to marry them. We do not require parental permission, we do not forbid it by law. Often they also convert when they marry or soon after. It is a measure of the appeal of love, not necessarily of Islam.
The question you ought to ask is how many remain Muslims. I think there is a study that says four fifths of American converts leave Islam. I notice you do not mention that.
Complete 'hijab', also includes the moral conduct, behaviour, attitude and intention of the individual. A person only fulfilling the criteria of 'hijab' of the clothes is observing 'hijab' in a limited sense. 'Hijab' of the clothes should be accompanied by 'hijab' of the eyes, 'hijab' of the heart, 'hijab' of thought and 'hijab' of intention. It also includes the way a person walks, the way a person talks, the way he behaves, etc.
And all this to prevent boys from whistling at you on the street? Who is going to extremes in their views of Muslim boys' behaviours and attitudes here? Not me.
I have find this highly fascinating and imaginative idea you came up with but I’ll go with it. Lets say that there are men who whistle at women wearing the full Hijab, these Muslim boys may whistle at them but Western men whistle at them and then rape them.
There is not a lot of evidence of that either. The majority of women in the West move about every day without being whistled at and the overwhelming majority are never raped. There is plenty of evidence that the same cannot be said of Muslim countries - there are accounts of Afghan boys who raped Afghan girls by getting them in a shop and ripping off their hijab so they could not get away even if they wanted. There are plenty of stories of Egyptian boys who engage in gang rapes. Just because Muslim countries produce no statistics of value, it does not mean there is not a problem.
