Ali Dawah - February 26, 2019HIJABI WOMAN OWNS FEMINIST - EPIC REPLY
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Summary
Feminism is a highly ambiguous term, straightjacketing, instead of liberating. It is the call for gender privilege, masquerading as equality. In essence, feminism denies the human reality, and is not the cause for justice.
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It's claimed that women need feminism because there are women that suffer injustice.
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But this ignores that nearly all human beings suffer injustice at some point in their lives
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And justice for only one group of society to the exclusion of another is like a bird without one wing.
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Men have a fundamental need for justice just the same as women do.
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And whilst the very word feminism discriminates, the word justice doesn't.
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Justice means giving people what they deserve or merit.
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But as we'll see, feminism and justice are not synonymous.
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Feminism is a highly ambiguous term, straightjacketing instead of liberating.
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It is the call for gender privilege, masquerading as equality.
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To begin, feminists advocate that women have traditionally been dehumanised in a male-dominated society,
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which they call the patriarchy, and that it has always been better to be a man.
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But this one-sided claim snubs the privileges that women have often enjoyed simply for being women.
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The dynamics of society at the most basic level show that it has actually always been better to be a woman.
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Biologically, every woman counts in reproduction and perpetuating life itself,
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giving each woman an intrinsic worth, regardless of what she does.
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It only takes one man, however, for many women to have children.
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So historically, this gave rise to the idea, amongst human societies,
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that men are largely disposable, whilst every woman is indispensable.
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This is why, instinctively, we prioritise safety and comfort for women rather than men.
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Why women are rescued first in any emergency or disaster, and get the first seat in lifeboats.
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Why men tend to work longer hours, risking life and limb in the more dirty and dangerous jobs,
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like being coal miners, oil drillers, foot soldiers, construction workers, rubbish collectors,
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and the male relative acting as the unpaid bodyguard in the home.
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When it comes to domestic violence, the Guardian reported that men are the victims more than 40% of the time,
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excluding unreported cases, and men are half as likely to tell anyone about it in the first place.
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When it comes to the provision of refuges, there are 7,500 for females in England and Wales,
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As for male rape victims, within UK prisons, there's a collective state of denial.
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Men are held to a higher standard of self-defence,
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and so they often suffer in silence, reluctant to be re-victimised
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by an unsympathetic legal system or disbelieving treatment from professionals.
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Yet feminists generally remain egregiously quiet about male suffering as a result of social roles.
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Whilst feminists seek liberation from the shackles of the traditional female role,
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the man is still expected to continue his traditional disposable role.
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This one-sided narrative of feminism is not the way forward.
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For feminists, equality is merely a facade to favour women, often at the expense of others.
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Like when former Equality Minister Harriet Harman, a feminist,
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publicly requested employers to discriminate against white men and hire women instead
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Or when former Equality Minister Patricia Hewitt, also a feminist,
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was found guilty of breaching the Sex Discrimination Act
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by overlooking a strong male applicant for a job in favour of a weaker female applicant.
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So feminists claim to seek equality and call for a 40% minimum female quota on management boards,
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but conspicuously do not call for a 40% minimum quota for soldiers, prison guards, lumberjacks,
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Why not campaign for an end to the women and children first quality and lifeboats
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Why not have women and men compete side by side in the Olympics, as equals?
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Of course, the reason feminists won't advocate this is because
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it's not really about equality, but the means to achieve gender privilege.
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Another shocking example is the feminist campaign for closing women's prisons.
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The Fawcett Society, the UK's leading feminist campaign for closing the inequality gap between
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women and men, campaigned that female prisons did not suit women's needs.
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So, as recommended in a report by Baroness Causton, they should be closed
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and replaced with what is in effect women's social clubs where female offenders get to
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spend time with each other, organising their own shopping, budgets and cooking,
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and then go home to their children at the end of each day.
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The Causton report also stated that women and men are different.
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Equal treatment of women and men does not result in equal outcomes.
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Going on to claim that women are governed by hormones in a monthly cycle which affects
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These biological factors have a direct bearing on the way in which women experience stressful
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If a man were to say that about treating women differently in the workplace, he'd be called
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Strangely though, feminists are completely happy for women to say that women are governed by
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hormones and cite biological factors when it comes to obtaining privileges.
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So, for feminists, male criminals are to be punished to the full extent of the law,
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whilst female criminals should get comfort and help.
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Why is male suffering and injustice less important than female suffering and injustice?
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Feminists are not asking for equal treatment, but special treatment, gender privilege.
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Women do not need gender privilege, and therefore they do not need feminism.
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In reality, they, along with men, need justice, a comprehensive justice for all.
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Feminism comes in many different factions, conservative, liberal, socialist, post-modern, eco-feminism
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With no shared value system or moral guidance, feminists don't agree on anything but the
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name, and will happily contradict themselves if need be.
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For example, feminists have no clear position on the sexual objectification of women.
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Some feminists advocate androgynising the female appearance, and others campaign for safer
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cosmetic surgery without challenging why women actually feel the need to have it in the first
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Because feminism cannot deal with complexities, it promotes the idea of individualism instead.
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The idea that women should be empowered through redefining their own expectations.
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And feminists are always on hand to dictate that women should make men the benchmark of
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Instead of freeing women from male expectations, feminists expect free women to be male.
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Finally, I argue that feminism denies human reality.
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It straight jackets women, and doesn't understand or accommodate the natural proclivities of the
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Virtually all species, from bees to primates, have different gender roles, with different
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Yet feminists insist that any gender difference between humans is invented, and there is nothing
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biological about men or women that should inform their social roles.
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Scientific studies have clearly demonstrated, however, the role of testosterone in building
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muscle, increasing competitiveness, confidence and risk-taking, making men better suited to
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the more hazardous and competitive roles of society.
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Because of testosterone, men naturally tend to be faster, bigger, possess more stamina and
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So teaching a girl that she can naturally compete equally with men in everything is misleading.
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One absurd example of this is when feminists attempting to achieve equal outcomes between the
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sexes, had the strenuous physical tests for UK firefighters lowered, and the standards
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relaxed in order to accommodate more female firefighters.
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So the standards you can now expect from professionals in burning buildings and boardrooms, as I mentioned
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earlier, whether male or female, is much lower than before because of feminists.
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It seems feminists are implicitly agreeing with Plato when he said that women should be treated
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equally to men, except that not so much should be expected of them.
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Leading feminists in their absurd quest for equal outcomes between the sexes to campaign for
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mediocrity in the workplace rather than meritocracy.
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Feminists argue that the division of labour in traditional families constrains women's opportunities,
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that women are discriminated against in getting jobs and wages, that there exists a wage gap
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However, these arguments collapse upon further scrutiny, because if employers could get away
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to paying a woman less for the exact same tasks that they could pay a man, why wouldn't
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Furthermore, statistics cited by feminists as evidence of the wage gap tend to lump full-time
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hours in with overtime hours, of which women tend to do far less than men.
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They also average earnings from disparate jobs, like primary school teachers with investment
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bankers, sales engineers with chemical engineers, HR executives with finance executives, so
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Nor are women discouraged from entering higher-paying fields.
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They outperform men at university, but are more likely to choose languages, arts and social
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sciences, which pay less, whilst men are more likely to choose engineering, technology,
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The division of labour once children are born also means mothers tend to intensify their
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home commitments, and fathers tend to heavily intensify their work commitments.
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Men seem to make this trade-off more than women, perhaps because men feel more obliged to
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The reality is that the statistics do not reflect discrimination, but choices.
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If there is a glass ceiling, it seems that women are the main architects of it, because
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they get to trade off higher-paying jobs for more flexible hours to combine work and family
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life, which means they don't only get the benefit of the father's wage, but also a better
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Isn't that more important than arbitrarily chasing the highest-paying jobs?
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Feminists don't want to be thought of as sexual objects, but seem happy to be valued according
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Both assessments are materialistic, and neither should dictate the worth of a man or a woman.
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The wage gap is telling, in that feminists cannot deny the impact of motherhood on the
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That men and women cannot live lives completely autonomous from one another.
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That men and women actually need each other to make a whole.
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But if feminists are so keen on equality, what about their silence on the cancer research
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gap, the education gap, the violent crime gap, the death on the job gap, the suicide
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gap, the life expectancy gap, all of which discriminate against men?
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In idolising the male and trying to create an androgynous sexuality where men and women
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are virtually identical, except for their anatomy, feminists have perpetuated a misogynistic
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Motherhood and female tenderness is now viewed as a weakness.
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The strength of men, which can be used to lead wars, just as it can be used to be fierce
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protectors, is often kept in check by the compassion and temperance of women.
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But when women abandon these qualities and want the same aggression that they perceive
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When feminists are insisting on taking over the male role, is it any surprise that men
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are shirking their responsibilities, which they once did with pride, diligence and selfless
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If feminists want to have it all, they will most likely end up having to do it all, often
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at the expense of their own well-being, and most importantly, at the expense of our children.
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In Islam, men and women and their actions are equal in the eyes of God.
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Islam primarily addresses men and women the same, because men and women by and large share
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the same human characteristics, and it addresses them separately in relation to the few areas
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where they differ. The Islamic system isn't based on selfish individualism, but a God-centred
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worldview promoting mutual reciprocity. In Islam, women do not serve men, and men do not serve
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women. Rather, we serve God by helping each other and giving to each other based on human
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needs, with the understanding that humans are not all the same. Islam guards the female from
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the moment she enters the world by rebuking and prohibiting the practice of female infanticide
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as one of the greatest crimes to be committed. Such religion can only go on to challenge the
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ill-treatment of women and secure her well-being at every stage of her life. Through property
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rights, marriage contracts, political participation, inheritance laws and dress code, it advocates
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complementarity with men rather than competition. Marriage is the bedrock of family life in Islam
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and the fundamental unit of Islamic society, giving us rights and duties over one another.
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As a wife, she has the right to be provided for, including her own living space, and is
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guaranteed financial safeguards should her marriage not work out. Yet Islam does not straitjacket
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women. It allows women to enter the workplace, but not out of the necessity of the struggle
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to support herself, but out of choice, to be pursued at her leisure. In Islam, nobody has
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a right over her earnings. However, Islam mandates that a man's earnings must be used to provide
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for the women of the household, irrespective of whether they work or not. Furthermore,
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as a mother, the woman is given preference for respect from the children over the father.
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Such is the esteemed role that she plays at the heart of the soul and the family, and by
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extension, society. So Islam provides a clear, natural and just solution to ensuring justice
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for all humans, and has no need for feminism's vain attempts to reinvent the wheel that Islam
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set in motion over 1400 years ago. In Islam, power is not a virtue. It is a burden and a
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responsibility. Instead of seeking to empower ourselves, we should seek to empower justice.
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In Islam, women are liberated from the servitude of men, and liberated from the expectations
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of other women. It is virtue which all human beings, regardless of gender, career, or social
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role, can equally strive for. In the end, true self-worth and contentment doesn't come through
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submission to any aspect of creation, material, men, women, none of it. It only comes from
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submission to the creator himself and all that he commands. Thank you.