When it comes to women’s rights in Islam, it is often said that Islam 1400 years ago gave women rights, that did not exist in other parts of the world. One of the most cited points is the right of women to be able to freely choose their spouse. In this article, guest author Q. Ahmad explores these rights as they exist in Islam generally, and in Ahmadiyyat, specifically.
Elaboration on the Superior Mental Faculties of Men
The following is my response to a tweet-longer message from user @SearchIslam. Thank you for taking the time to thoughtfully write a longer response. I appreciate that. Truly, articles/blog posts are going to be more constructive than twitter conversations, and this is where I intend to spend most of my limited time with this subject. […]
Men’s Superior Mental Faculties over Women
This post of mine, and the ensuing conversation thread on Twitter garnered a lot of inarticulate speech and weak rhetoric that I had somehow insulted Ahmadi Muslim women, and that I was some kind of misogynist, when it was the misogyny within Islam (yes, Ahmadiyyat too) that was one of several factors for which I left the religion.