Emma Jean Liberman
It is pretty fascinating that while the Western world is extraordinarly convinced of its moral superiority regarding how it treats women, the Qu'ran seems to be a bit more progressive towards the treatment of women than the Bible.
In the Bible, Lot offers his daughters as sacrifices to rapists, G-d punishes women far more than men (with pain and death in childbirth) for seeking knowledges in the Old Testament while in the Qu'ran Adam and Eve share the blame: partners, rather than placing men as masters. Allah creates men and women out of clay together as equals: Genesis in the Bible is a bit more murky about the subject
Americans today, even the liberals, justify military intervention today in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan today by talking about freeing women in veils without asking how they relate to their religion, which does reek of neo-colonialism and paternalism in the very worst sense.
It is pretty fascinating that while the Western world is extraordinarly convinced of its moral superiority regarding how it treats women, the Qu'ran seems to be a bit more progressive towards the treatment of women than the Bible.
In the Bible, Lot offers his daughters as sacrifices to rapists, G-d punishes women far more than men (with pain and death in childbirth) for seeking knowledges in the Old Testament while in the Qu'ran Adam and Eve share the blame: partners, rather than placing men as masters. Allah creates men and women out of clay together as equals: Genesis in the Bible is a bit more murky about the subject
Americans today, even the liberals, justify military intervention today in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan today by talking about freeing women in veils without asking how they relate to their religion, which does reek of neo-colonialism and paternalism in the very worst sense.
