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.

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