What Are Stereotypes Faced By Westerners Oppress Women In Islam?

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The majority in the western culture often think of the words such as oppressed, inferior and unequal when they think about the women in Islam. Such stereotypes cause confusion between Islam and cultural practices thus; the westerners do not recognize that even Islam empowers the women with most appropriate progressive rights. According to the Westerners, the women in Islam are oppressed, mistreated and disrespected. However, such allegations about the Islam’s ways of treating women are not correct (Edwards 53). Actually, various progressive rights unlike the Westerners’ view that they are oppressed have been provided by the Islamic culture to protect the women in Islam. According to every religion, men and women are often equal even though …show more content…

For example, the westerners believe that the Muslims oppress the women. They believe so primarily because of the Islamic dressing requirements. Even though the Quran requires both men and women to dress decently, more emphases are put on the women’s dressing code. Therefore, such conditions highlight some of the reasons why the Westerners think that the Muslims are oppressing the women (Wadud 68). Moreover, the Westerners believe the unlike the liberation of the Muslim women, the liberation of women from the Western culture is complete. However, both the culture of the west and Muslims considers the body of women as sexual objects. In contrast, the western culture encourages the women to exploit their sexuality while the Muslims culture encourages their women to conceal their …show more content…

Muslim religion provides preferential treatment to the men more than the women do. However, the society can shape and modify religion to meet their interests, peculiarities, and practices. Therefore, according to the Westerners, the Muslims have modified their religion that men have been given the first priorities before the women’s needs in the society (Mir-Hosseini 303). However, this contradicts the way Muslims believe. According to the Muslims, women are supposed to be treated with care, love, and compassion since they undergo various challenges to bear the children. Moreover, they follow the teachings and personalities of their prophet Muhammad. Muhammad was a role model to the Muslims community because of how he cared, loved and was compassionate to his wife. Moreover, the westerners believe that the Muslim women are vulnerable to security risks, abrupt divorce and lack of rights to own and inherit property. Therefore, according to the westerners, the female Muslims are

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