Shadee Elmasry – Is Islam Compatible Feminism

			is Islam compatible with feminism?
Now, I wrote an essay about this
		

			subject, which is a summary of my
position on the matter. And the
		

			reason I wrote that is because my,
I still have a am of the same
		

			opinion that matters relating to
feminism, the definitions, the
		

			explanations, or what people
consider to be feminism is so
		

			diverse, right? It's so fluid.
That to make a statement on a
		

			single about a single to make a
single statement about feminism
		

			has become literally impossible,
right? It's not like communism,
		

			where certain fundamentals are
there like their communism is,
		

			there are certain fundamental
ideas intrinsic to the word
		

			communism, right, or attributed to
the word Commons. Same with
		

			capitalism, we're even though
there's more fluidity with
		

			capitalism, right.
		

			Feminism, though, if you define it
as equality, equal opportunity, or
		

			equality, and all matters,
financial, etc. Okay. Still,
		

			there's so much room for alternate
definitions. Right, well, equality
		

			defined by whom, on whose
standard? So you can find that on
		

			the subpoena side of blog posts
page, that my position is that you
		

			have to talk about issues. You
have talked about issues. Now the
		

			biggest issue is this thesis or
idea that you find that all men of
		

			the past
		

			were somehow colluding
		

			to conspiring, whether they
realize it or not, to put down
		

			women. All right, now, I have a
problem with generalizations.
		

			Okay, now, there is a general
reality that Sure, there's a lot
		

			of oppression happening in the
past, there's no one's gonna doubt
		

			that. But to generalize over a
large swath of people, and when it
		

			comes to Islamic scholarship, they
often generalize over all scholars
		

			and now all prophets to okay, that
they had slants, that they were
		

			oppressive to women. To me, these
generalizations are pointless to
		

			discuss. All right, rather bring
me a specific case in which a
		

			specific man was oppressive. With
evidence that he was oppressive,
		

			then we could say, yeah, there's a
problem. We have a problem with
		

			that, right. And I'll be the first
one to line up and say, that's a
		

			problem. We can't accept that.
It's just no different than
		

			the concept that even in race,
it's the same thing. Right? This
		

			no one feels comfortable with this
broad generalization about
		

			anyone's race. Right? So how is it
any different in gender, so to
		

			bring a specific point, is far
more conducive to actually
		

			reaching a benefit, right, and a
conclusion in which, that's fair,
		

			then to accept this dialogue? And
this type of dialectic, in which
		

			there are all those people and all
these people. So again, it's my
		

			position on that is
		

			on the on the blog, on the blog
post.
		

			And if it's not there, I'll put it
up I'm pretty sure it's there. So
		

			he decided to org slash blog. So
if it's
		

			if they're if the question or has
any specific way that they've
		

			understood feminism, then then
bring it right, bring it so we can
		

			have
		

			one set of terms and ideas to talk
about. Alright, let's see what we
		

			got here.
		

			All the all the