By Hello readers and a belated Eid Mubarak to you all!
To keep up that #RamadanRecharge even after the holy month, we are announcing the start of our new MG book club.
Every month, we plan on reading a book affiliated with either women’s rights or religion. We plan on discussing content read within the staff and with our readers through Facebook lives and comment sections!
The book selected for July will be….
*Can I get a drumroll, please?*
“Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading“ by the wickedly talented Asma Lamrabet.
The book grapples with finding a point of equilibrium between coddled conservative Islam and westernized Islam that is often seen as too liberal.
“At the heart of this debate Muslim women are seeking to reclaim their right to speak in order to re-appropriate their own destinies, calling for the equality and liberation that is at the heart of the Qur’an,” Lamrabet’s own introduction reads.
The book seeks to resurge the often diluted message regarding women’s rights. We chose Lamrabet’s work for our first book because it aligns exactly with Muslim Girl’s ideals and vision.
Get your copies this week, and come next Monday, get crackin’! Post a selfie of you and your book and tag Muslim Girl with the hashtag #MGBookClub!
Available on Amazon, Target, and Google Play.
‘“At the heart of this debate Muslim women are seeking to reclaim their right to speak in order to reappropriate their own destinies, calling for the equality and liberation that is at the heart of the Qur’an,” Lamrabet’s own introduction reads.”
The problem with so called Muslim women is that they have been brainwashed, taken in by the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition that undermine woman as inferior beings, secondary to man. These women assert in general – some have specifically to me online – woman’s inferiority in relation to man. As evidence they present their understanding that Woman was created from Adam’s rib, that Eve is a minion of Satan, leading cause of sin, Adam’s expulsion from heaven, and that Woman was created to serve him and for his sexual pleasure.
They assert that women should be wrapped up in black from head to toe, with one eye open, beaten up if they are assertive, stoned to death if they stray. In fact one I considered intelligent and articulate and had a liking for, a cultural Hindoo, considered my objection to this absurdity as a deal breaker and insisted that it is in Islam. No, I am not kidding.
I have seen no verses in the Qur’an that support such interpretation, plenty in Bible and Hadith.