WAFA SULTAN [a Syrian born woman], SPEAKS ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN WITHIN ISLAM / SHARIA JURISDICTIONS.
February 5, 2009
Wafa Sultan: "The Subjugation of Women Reduces Them to a Level Lower Than Beasts"
.....Wafa Sultan: "If Islam really treated women with honor,
we would see the positive consequences of that honor over the course of the past 14 centuries. Islam did not treat women with honor. On the contrary, it has distorted the concept of honor.
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In my opinion, in the Arab countries in particular, you cannot say that the status of women has nothing to do with Islam.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/024717.phpWithin countries that
are under the influence of ISLAM / Sharia, is it ISLAM that is responsible for the shocking treatment of women, and the attitudes of muslim men towards women ?
If ISLAM is not responsible for the behaviour of muslim men [
muslim men who declare their own status as devout muslims], then who is responsible?
Where-ever ISLAM has influence in a society,
violence and injustice is prevalent.
Q.
Why won't muslims just accept reality, why won't muslims admit that ISLAM is a failed cultural system?
A.
Muslims always try to hide injustice [which reflects badly upon themselves, and ISLAM], because muslims are
culturally programmed to always seek to hide what is shameful.
Devout muslims, ISLAMIST's, Jihadists - ISLAM
Shame vs. Guilt
Islamic cultures are shame based. Shame is a painful experience.
To avoid shame you have to hide the source of shame. This means you must protect the image. Your entire self esteem and self worth depends on that image. When you are shamed you become violence. Violence is one way we humans deal with shame.
.....For Easterners, everything is about image and how others see us. The opposite of guilt is innocence.
If your ethos is guilt based, you have an inner police that stops you from doing wrong because doing wrong makes you feel guilty.
If your ethos is shame based, all you care is to preserve your image.
The opposite of shame is honor.
You can do wrong but as long as no one sees it, your image is not tarnished and you can still be seen as an honorable person.http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017530.php#c428023http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina70723.htm".....If your ethos is shame based, all you care is to preserve your image."
.....and to avoid exposing what is TRUE.
Within ISLAM,
....TRUTH [which is shameful] does not 'exist'.
Within ISLAM,
....when shame exists, it must be hidden.