{"id":37669,"date":"2017-03-22T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37669"},"modified":"2017-03-12T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T15:47:18","slug":"qotd-sharia-and-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/qotd-sharia-and-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Sharia and women&#8217;s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As a moral and legal code, Sharia law is demeaning and degrading to women. It requires women to be placed under the care of male guardians; it views a woman\u2019s testimony in court as worth half that of a man\u2019s; and it permits a husband to beat his wife. It\u2019s not only women\u2019s legal and sexual freedoms that are curtailed under Sharia but their economic freedoms as well. Women generally inherit half of the amount that men inherit, and their male guardian must consent to their choosing education, work, or travel.<\/p>\n<p>In Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, and parts of Nigeria, where Sharia law underpins the judicial system, women\u2019s rights suffer greatly.<\/p>\n<p>There is a growing trend among some feminists to make excuses for Sharia law and claim it is nothing more than a personal moral guide, and therefore consistent with American constitutional liberties. Yet the rules that such \u201cSharia-lite feminists\u201d voluntarily choose to follow are also invoked to oppress women \u2014 to marry them off, to constrain their economic and human rights, and to limit their freedom of expression \u2014 who have not consented to them. The moral conflict between Sharia and universal human rights should not be dismissed as a misunderstanding, but openly discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Many Western feminists struggle to embrace universal women\u2019s rights. Decades ago, Germaine Greer argued that attempts to outlaw female genital mutilation amounted to \u201can attack on cultural identity.\u201d That type of deference to traditional practices, in the name of cultural sensitivity, hurts vulnerable women. These days, relativism remains strong. Too many feminists in the West are reluctant to condemn cultural practices that clearly harm women \u2014 female genital mutilation, polygamy, child marriage, marital rape, and honor violence, particularly in non-Western societies. Women\u2019s rights are universal, and such practices cannot be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Ayaan Hirsi Ali, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/08\/on-this-day-without-a-woman-don-t-leave-women-oppressed-by-sharia-law-behind.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;On This \u2018Day Without a Woman,\u2019 Don\u2019t Leave Women Oppressed by Sharia Law Behind&#8221;, <em>The Daily Beast<\/em><\/a>, 2017-03-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a moral and legal code, Sharia law is demeaning and degrading to women. It requires women to be placed under the care of male guardians; it views a woman\u2019s testimony in court as worth half that of a man\u2019s; and it permits a husband to beat his wife. It\u2019s not only women\u2019s legal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,370,41,11],"tags":[198,987,47,48,43],"class_list":["post-37669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-middle-east","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-equalrights","tag-feminism","tag-islam","tag-sharia","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Nz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37670,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37669\/revisions\/37670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}