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Post: FEMALE EDUCATION IN ISLAM: TEACH THEM CHRISTIANITY
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Islam may be looked at in the same way Christianity may be viewed in the mundane. The same spectra are at work in both: Literal to figurative, conservative to liberal, traditional to textual, etc. This then raises the issue of how one defines Islam. Does Islam encompass everything everyone who claims to be a Muslim believes, or is Islam only that which Mohammed expressed? I hold with the latter. It is the same position I hold vis-à-vis Christianity. Christianity is only what Jesus expressed. Anything that diverges from Jesus's meanings and intentions is not Christian.The Islam of tradition is a mixed bag. Some traditions allow and even encourage female education. Others do not.However, if we remove everything from consideration concerning Islam that is not in sync (as much as that's possible) with Mohammed's world and spiritual view as contained in the Qur'an, then we will be in the proper position to compare and contrast Islam with Christianity. Mohammed was a sexist. There is no doubt about that. There are differences between the sexes of course, which suit them to certain roles. Men don't give birth except by women. Men don't breast feed babies. That women carry developing babies in their wombs and give birth to them and breast feed them doesn't mean that the differences between males and females stops with those aspects. Neither does it mean that all women are particularly well suited to those things. It also doesn't mean that there are not effeminate males.Mohammed though set down rules about the role of females which rules were never expressed by Jesus. In fact, the rules of Mohammed run contrary to the spirit of Christ as expressed in the four Gospels of the narrow canon.Mohammed married Aisha when she was 6 or 7. The marriage was a contract. Aisha remained with her parents until she was 9. Then according to the Hadith (held to be sacred text in Islam),…
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