Comments on: Muhammad’s Mistresses

By: Web Roundup | Analog Girl In A Digital World

Web Roundup | Analog Girl In A Digital World — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:09:14 +0000

[...] 4. Muhammads Mistresses – a great read for women who practice or are interested in practicing Islam: http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2012/06/muhammads-mistresses/ [...]

By: Allahu Akbar (not)

Allahu Akbar (not) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:54:35 +0000

Sweetie those Surah’s you quoted HARDLY say anything about equality lol – in fact they do just the opposite. 4:32 does not assert men and women enjoy the SAME qualities. It says they each enjoy CERTAIN qualities. That passage is negated as feminist. Surah 4:7 says women may get A SHARE of what’s left behind, doesn’t outline how much. But in Surah 4:11 it says “males get TWICE the share of females.” Sneaky but no cigar. That passage is negated as feminist. Surah 4:4 says women get a dang dowrie (whooptie woo I’m worth a goat and chicken this year) and then even more laughable goes on to say if they forfeit their dowries the man get’s to keep it. how convenient. That passage is negated as feminis. Surah 4:124 says absolutely nothing other then a woman can enter Paradise too (BIG EQUAL) but then again only if she’s righteous and obedient.

the Surah’s the writer quoted don’t seem “sensationalist” they seem like an ongoing motif in this literature. Got anything else? No wonder you just named them off and didn’t print them. Nice try on the deception

[4:32] You shall not covet the qualities bestowed upon each other by GOD; the men enjoy certain qualities, and the women enjoy certain qualities. You may implore GOD to shower you with His grace. GOD is fully aware of all things

[4:7] The men get a share of what the parents and the relatives leave behind. The women too shall get a share of what the parents and relatives leave behind. Whether it is a small or a large inheritance, (the women must get) a definite share.
[4:4] You shall give the women their due dowries, equitably. If they willingly forfeit anything, then you may accept it; it is rightfully yours.
[4:124] As for those who lead a righteous life, male or female, while believing, they enter Paradise; without the slightest injustice.

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By: Alicia

Alicia — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:49:53 +0000

You obviously didn’t read this piece at all Shahida because the writer never said a muslim woman can’t advocate for women’s rights. in fact that was her blatant point in her first paragraph – she mentioned all the ones she respected that have fought on behalf of women’s rights (i don’t know all the names she listed and i’m sure you don’t either but I got the drfit.) She is talking about appropriating the word “feminism” when you believe all this patriarchal misogynistic junk is the word of god i.e. truth.

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By: Shahida Muhammad

Shahida Muhammad — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:04:42 +0000

Overall this seems to be a personal disdain for Islam hidden beneath the veil of a feminists critique. The idea that a Muslim woman can’t be a person who advocates women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men (i.e. feminist) is flawed, yet even still I believe you could have made an effort to argue your point without the sensationalist portrait of Islam as a whole. Is it to say that women have not been oppressed by man in the name of religion outside of Islam? Or are you implying Muslim women don’t fit your standard of feminism, because they are Muslim? Also, are you discounting the works of many Black American Muslim women, who have played a part in feminists movements in the U.S.? Or is this piece mainly informed by the portrayal of Muslim life in the middle east which is most often sensationalized. I could go on, but I will just say: As a Muslim, I’m offended. As a writer, I’m dissapointed.—Peace, Shahida

By: Shahida Muhammad

Shahida Muhammad — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:13:24 +0000

I must say I’m highly disappointed in Clutch for posting this article. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, however this piece seems like more of an attack on Islam. Many of the Quranic references have been oversimplified and misconstrued. For example the HQ clearly states men and women have equal rights: Surahs 4:32, 4:7, 4:4, 4,124.The title is highly offensive, to cheapen the wives of the Prophet Muhammad to mistresses, whether you agree with polygamy or not, I think it speaks more to the intention of the piece than the than the disclaimer in the opening. You have carelessly disrespected the over 1 billion people around the world who practice Islam, by the perverted sexual implication you make in reference to Prophet Muhammad …

By: Please

Please — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:00:21 +0000

Let me guess you are a Muslim man

Typical…we know what you are….

Cant respond to the valid points made so go in on the usual attack Black women bit

*more and more Black men are choosing Muslim women to marry…..lol.SUREEEEE!

By: Please

Please — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:18:46 +0000

Why would Black people take on this religion from people(Arabs), who have been enslaving them since the 5th century and even today and some still believe Blacks are one step above or equivalent to animals?.

Maybe, this is one of the reasons Blacks/ Africa have not stood up for the most part and be self determining? They are operating under a foreign alien mindset that has made them weak and stunted their growth?

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By: State of Formation - A Response from an Oxymoron: A Review of Sasha Brookner’s essay “Muhammad’s Mistresses”

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:02:09 +0000

[...] reading Sasha Brookner’s essay, “Muhammad’s Mistresses,” I was initially furious with Brookner’s outlined attack against Muslim feminists. But upon [...]

By: Ella B

Ella B — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:36:28 +0000

My sentiments exactly!! Wow, well done Sasha. I am also amazed and, for lack of wording as impressive as the other commenters, awestruck by the readers joining in this converstion. Very diplomatic, genuinely wanting-to-know, and actually … logical! lol. so cool! :) But yeah, “Wow” to topic at hand so finely … argued? If i wasn’t already agreeing with writer, I have some solid points to back up why I should. It is unrealistic to expect the world not to notice or leave well enough alone. Dialog is necessary and in this day & age it’s our responsibility/birthright to seek to understand & question our world… Islam, batter up. (smh, I feel so inarticulate lol but hope I was understandable)

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:05:31 +0000

Just wanted to share this link. A Muslim girl is lashed 100 times in Mali just like it says in Surah 24:2 that all you guys said was “out of context”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9346850/Teenager-lashed-100-times-in-Timbuktu-for-having-child-out-of-wedlock.html