Correction: It was banned after the outcry because a little girl was subjected to the procedure and hemorrhaged until she died. That has, however, changed and it's completely legal if a doctor decides it's necessary. What constitutes necessary? Most often, the parents' desire to make it so lest...
Okay then. Have it your way and we'll agree that Islamic religious scholars have it wrong and those five Hadiths I quoted are not weak. Weak, strong, in the middle, it doesn't matter, really.
That said, back to the issue: Why, if God gave women all of the parts to have a happy sex life...
The topic of this debate thread is Islam's treatment of women. It was rather lively until the discussion turned to the application of Islam. Specifically, here is the issue:
Sex is a right of both parties within a marriage. A content sex life is, in fact, a right. The right to a content...
I'm not the one to answer your questions. That is for the Muslims, who have continually supported Islam's treatment of women throughout this discussion, to do. However none has come forward. Instead they remain silent. Again, I have to ask WHY?
Justification is found in five Hadiths:
1.) A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The Prophet said to her: Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband.
Did Mohamed tell her to stop? Did he say Allah forbids it? No. Instead, he only said...
Did you watch the videos and see what the good Sheikh had to say about the subject? As much as I appreciate a good Wiki, it's not the ultimate source for accurate information. Here's an article that discusses the round about personal status laws require, particularly the roll Islam plays in...
Oh, why wait!
Let's talk about girls who's fathers refuse to register their births now!
Here's another youtube (hey, it's free and it's there) clip about that:
YouTube - Witness - Children Who Don't Exist - Part 1
YouTube - Witness - Children Who Don't Exist - Part 2
And folks, just so...
What?
I bring up the subject of FGM and nobody is willing to put their fingers on their keyboards anymore?
Where did the Muslim apologists go? Are they running their Qu'rans through Google's translator to figure out whether it's halal or haram to chop off a girl's parts?
How about taking...
You will never find a marital rape law in an Islamic country. A content sex life is the right of both husbands and wives, not just husbans.
However, and let me point out that I live in Ish2lah-Land (Egypt, where I haven't been in a taxi in ages that wasn't blasting a recitation of the...
Agreed.
Written Arabic is primarily phonetic, with an emphasis on the non-vowel sounds. Accents provide the voweled pronunciation.
Example (using English so it makes sense):
"bn" = "been"
"b'n" = "bean"
Thus the difference noted in the article about hand and fingertips.
One would...
Not only does one need to know understand Arabic, but one also has to know the formal Arabic in which it is written, as well as understand the meaning of those specific words in the time they were written.
Language - the meaning of language - changes over time.
It's interesting to note that the author of the World Christian Encyclopedia (the source of your link, Alla Prima), "the statistics say that Baha'is are growing at a faster rate" (than Muslims) and "faster still are Zoroastrians."
I believe it's worth noting that countries which rule with...
Key words: "to a great extent".
From time to time? I believe that's an understatement. If it weren't, there wouldn't be a need for police posted in front of or across the street from every church I've ever seen in Egypt, and I've seen a lot of them. In fact, the Coptic church in my...
Would you say Hadith is from primary sources, secondary sources, or several hundred years after Mohamed's death sources? They appear to follow the "Someone knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who heard someone say the Prophet Mohamed said/did...."...
But we're not talking about Christianity; the topic of this discussion is Islam.
Again, I ask, how there could be differences in opinion within Islam when its foundation is the Qu'ran.