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.
Ahmadi Muslims and Women’s Testimony
Yes, Ahmadi Muslims are the most progressive of those Muslims who believe in the infallibility of the Qur’an, on the topic of female testimony. But that’s not the whole story. Let’s briefly explore one verse. See verse 2:283 of the Qur’an. Note that I’m using Ahmadi Muslim verse numbering here. Yes, yes, I’ve heard its just so one […]