By Faegheh Shirazi
There are many conflicts resulting within the center East, yet now not all are being fought with rockets and rifles. whereas the web has confirmed necessary to those that desire to uphold a patriarchal society and unfold the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim girls have used the internet to construct a transnational group reason on growing to be women's rights within the heart East. there's a huge disparity among a Muslim woman's function in accordance with the Qur'an and her position as a few corners of Muslim society have interpreted it. In "Velvet Jihad" Faegheh Shirazi finds the inventive innovations Muslim ladies have followed to quietly struggle opposed to those that may restrict their growing to be rights. Shirazi examines matters which are very important to all ladies, from regimen issues equivalent to day-by-day hygiene and garments to debatable matters like abortion, contraception, and virginity. As a lady with linguistic services and vast existence adventure in either Western and center jap cultures, she is uniquely situated as an aim observer and reporter of adjustments and demanding situations dealing with Muslim girls globally.
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Social and religious etiquette forbids men from using filthy language around women, while no such boundary exists to prevent women from unleashing obscenities on other women. Increasingly, the shrewd men at the helm of Iran’s Islamic government are strategically positioning female police to verbally and physically abuse women protestors. In the struggle against abusive policies of Islamist governments, not all males are oppressors. Many male Muslim—progressive, educated, and openminded—stand at the barricades as allies, joining hands with women.
58 Not only are women like Dr. Wadud stepping forward to challenge segregation in the mosques. They are also building mosques of their own, assuming leadership positions within those structures, and even conducting prayer among mixed-gender congregations. ” Amina Wadud led both men and women in a prayer service on March 18, 2005, in Manhattan. Another woman, Suehyla El-Attar from Atlanta, gave the adhan, or call to prayer. Traditionally, adhan is only recited by men, since a woman’s voice is considered to be sexually alluring and to cause sexual temptation, a kind of fitna (chaos).
Unwritten codes say that the unchaste woman has no place in her family or outside of her home, and the sanctions for a woman’s sexual disobedience can be dire. Her family will be ostracized, her sisters will be deemed unfit for marriage, her brothers will be taunted in the street, and their marriage proposals may be labeled unacceptable by other families. Men will question the manhood of her father and brothers, and until the issue is resolved, the family members will have to walk in public with their eyes lowered in shame.
