you know what news up next a documentary on women in islam and remember he wasn't able to find much more news and analysis on our web site at st louis i knew it was mckinnon on behalf of everyone thanks so much for watching and i'll buy. home any portion of lunch i'll turn out in a moral climate very different awful story this is my plan to bring home just one week. before it's going to get. we still have time to work i'm doing. this. i said.

we have this thing about covering women's faces because it's either too beautiful and you don't want to get that attention or because. families want to not show their women's faces and that's also comes from ownership of female bodies and patriarchal society is men feel my they have the right to tell the female in their family to cover her fears or to cover her hair or her body. and so i took the odds kind of to the next level and just removed my face so it's became something like let's say like a moderate but are. going to be strong women scream. target to be

a success for the humans and we try so hard but there is a lot of people do try to bury us because they want to think that we are not good enough and they don't want us to be in control they don't want us to be successful and. i'm going to bury myself but when i come in there and wait it beats my chest that every time i breathe i can stream that tracks off the clouds the choice to make creating. a scary. this is how i feel for the a life. in the minor city of some. in a modern city of santa. suited to shine. some sets. i chose this 1st because it means with every hardship come good things and i feel

like. it relates to women struggling with just being with. you while the past the present and the future. they can love like you balance the mass of the world. to them ration and see women stand up and they will not conform to remarks about. the way that they dress women are not just a bag of flesh. but so for years and centuries we've been science our bodies where became the battleground of patricks of racists now we are saying we have enough now we are mobilizing organizing across the countries including in europe you know editors reclaim our voices in your in order to reclaim our authority. the

protest and morocco's capital robot under the law here having sex before or outside marriage can lead to a one year jail term the north african country also has harsh penalties for abortion. 28 year old journalist how he stands accused of both offenses the case has driven many to protest and to demand self-determination for women. they're standing up for their rights young muslim women worldwide expect more from life than their mothers and they put up with yes they want legal equality for women with over that head scarves and at last the freedom to go out without a husband brother or father as guardian all across the muslim world women are fighting for social change. the story of

mohammed's 1st wife the teacher continues to inspire muslim women today. how the child was especially because she was a very successful businesswoman she knew how to choose the right people to work for our prophet muhammad. she turned of a lot of marriages as being a respectable ritual but a lot of men proposed and at that time almost 1500 years she knew how to say no to me and she's the one who asked prophet muhammad to get married so she has the guts of note to say this is the man i see the cult i think is good for me i will see if i detail was empowered she was an empowered woman. cyro marceau is a political scientist she works for the women's n.g.o.s in paris the group fights for equality and justice in muslim families her own family originally came from

morocco as a teenager in france she encountered prejudice against her faith time and again. i was a well spoken child i was very loud i was very proud to be able to memorize so many sweat from the what i and and if any being the elder daughter of an in mom is not easy because the community looks up to you but when i was young i didn't feel this pressure i was actually looking up to my father i liked reading that and outloud in the mosque i wanted to become like him i wanted to be able to preach to lead to prayer and at that time and while growing up i didn't really see the money for stations of i try to keep within my own religion because i was too busy fighting against islamophobia and racism in society in school in looking for a job relation activities and just in the street. in france where gender equality is enshrined in the constitution and religion is strictly separated

from the state many people are critical of conservative islam. since the islamist terrorist attacks of 2015 the number of islamophobia attacks in the country has increased many other directed against muslim women. for all that and muslim feminist. zaineb rar the problem isn't religion or the koran but patriarchy. elma's rar was born in hanover the daughter of moroccan immigrants she argues for an open and critical interpretation of islam and she puts muslim gender cliches under the microscope. this traditionally islam is a predatory arkell religion it has to be sit high at least that doesn't mean and i've explored this in my book emancipation in islam is that the situation solution has it improved not islam. i did it was in fact is the role of the woman in

islam whether she can be emancipated within islam is one of the big questions of our time because we talk a lot about islam around the world not just in germany or europe is emancipation possible islam i'd say yes but it's incredibly dependent on who interprets the religion and what mindset she has licked you guys. to. sense the 2011 revolution the country on the mediterranean coast has been in a state of upheaval. the islamic scholar she charged she was a member of the commission for individual liberties and equal rights its goal was to find solutions to achieve more rights for women. to. islam cannot stand in the way of the emancipation of women need of.

christianity or judaism they. can't in principle but because the position of women was always explicitly inferior in the monotheistic religious traditions. explains all 3 religions. so we have to make a distinction for between the religion itself. and the tradition that stems from religion. in paris the cmon via prizes being awarded it's named after the health minister who fought for abortion rights in france in 1975. 1 of the nominees zain of. the french moroccan worked for many years with the satirical magazine the 2. in 201512 people were killed in an attack on the magazine's office.

since then and recently has been one of france's fiercest critics of islam. their father. the woman is worth less than a man and is subject to head net. the women are dependent on their guardianship their money their will their sexual desires which the woman is not allowed to resist no matter if she has a wife or a lover. as soon as the woman rejects the model prescribed by society she is denigrated as a whore for she is a woman without morals in the eyes of society the city. lebanon has a long christian tradition but muslims make up the majority of the population. 30

years after the civil war their country is divided along demographic lines. grew up in a conservative catholic family the experience made her an atheist the lebanese journalist breaks to boost with her weekly t.v. program the topic today violence against women it happens in my society and in other arab societies women are rigid. as to what's between their legs this is how men conceive honor the honor of the family of their own honor is tied to a what a woman does with her body she is denied the basic right of sexual freedom and even if she is suspected to have done maybe something that is not right by the standards of. the social and religious norms she is killed the

main problem is that this killer this assassin. gets away with it because it is called a crime of honor and. it's a crime of this honor it's a crime point this on this song from birth to death a woman constantly here is the words how schumacher and. how. shame so don't be disgraceful that's what they used to say to us girls shush. mean sin how done so those are the 2 words that accompany a woman all her life between shame and sin sex some of us want to snatch there's a bit of freedom there it's not merely says who could live a buff as susan. to

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islamic feminist discourse operates at 2 levels on the one hand it's a scholarship that critically revisit and pack dominant religious interpretations that are discriminatory against woman on the 2nd hand it also aims to produce new knowledge that makes a case for gender equality but within an islamic but it died the objective of them from his movement in his purity is to challenge these bacteria or reading and to bring in woman lances to bring in feminist answers in the way we understand and we approach islamic textual sources. satirise role at misawa is knowledge building coordinator. in 2009 the n.g.i. began working in kuala lumpur more than 250 activists islamic scholars and lawyers from 47 countries took part in a call for equality and justice in muslim families. and religious values was

central to the appeal of those who believe that islamic feminism is an exam run or that islam and feminism i contradict really in fact they need to check their own assumptions when you believe in feminism you can't exclude other woman and other struggles from this collective struggle but a wise you're not true to your feminist ethics. 3 islamic feminist especially one to empower a practicing muslim women to help them and close their rights as mothers wives and said listen. according to islamic tradition men hold sway over women as guardians they decide on education independence work choice of husband divorce and children.

tunisian fauzia sharf he has been a muslim feminist ever since she was young. she studied physics in paris in the $950.00 s. for a long time she taught at the university of tunis one of the few women to do so. she's concerned that women internees in cities are increasingly wearing head scarves again. i like think back to that time of birth. my marriage my father and mother of it. back then the women were all dressed like europeans. general clean my comment i love to share my grandmother was awful because she didn't always wear headscarves to tiffin that when she was at home she was just herself. just slightly egyptian women to see and women who've been struggling since the start of the 20th century to be different. in 1956 tunisia gained its

independence the 1st president her beeper saw him self as an advocate for women he should inconsiderable improvements like the prohibition of polygamy divorce laws and the introduction of a minimum age for marriage. girls and women gained access to schools universities and the labor market. in place. with independence in 1986 president paul gilbert took the hill on i rationalize that. because he though he was convinced that women should be emancipated thank goodness and women were supported by their fathers and grandfathers very early on that's how it was with me my father thought that academic success was very important.

for us make sure that my educational development was taken as seriously as my brothers cute or minted because the more. the bright oh heck my cademy of sciences is located on the gulf of tunis 5 fake volumes of books originated here titled the quranic text and its variants up them a sheet sharf it worked for years on the contextualization of the qur'an jewish and christian sources were analyzed including aramaic and syrian literature the latest edition sheds new light on the familiar text. book around it sounds as revelation wasn't taxed so. it was not a fixed written text. so the document we have today will be this revelation cynic you know is many the work of people that bad very very last show i

meant it isn't the revelation itself but of the why. little work we do helps muslims and also normal's names to do away with a literal reading of a text in the lift you need to read these 3 d. text. sitting there mark it's an approach that usually leads to greater interest in the spirits of which next year. rather than in the literal meaning to question. nearly all of the qur'an 114 suras contain a lot of ambiguity. so we ask question how do we know what we know how do we know if this interpretation is actually an interpretation of what god had in mind how do we know if this is a source of authority why does male scholars through a dissenter he's had more authority than

a woman today living in one context were understand the stakes for her own experience from a woman's perspective tunisia is the most liberal muslim country in the region even so reforms are needed islamic scholar of for yourself has written extensively on issues like inheritance law polygamy and homosexuality as they relate to the qur'an use of compares the interpretations of male scholars from the middle ages to those of today and critiques their positions because of that she's been threatened by islamists who left her. alone. to a lot of but i don't know if. you knew. but it was a thought that in less sharply at the well a lot of the. people who are you. yeah. a lot

a lot. sot but 24 the light verse 35 this 1st goes very much to my heart because it addresses god as light. evoke good do i see this light as the spark of consciousness that encompasses everything people animals and things do you know it confirms that god is everything and that there is only one day it can exist. new. no one knows the interpretation blackguardly the problem isn't ambiguity on the contrary i think these ambiguous readings are an asset and they allow the text to open up the public school more the problem comes when someone thinks ok this is the meaning. love this is the truth and i'm going to impose it on others the only thing . was that you read the koran you can't just settle for what other people say you

can listen to ask questions if you read books in fact you should and sometimes you must but above all you have to take responsibility for your own interpretation. christianity and islam all 3 religions refer to a common patriarch favor. i believe that there are women who are trying to reconcile their faith with. their own human dignity however they can but personally i believe feminism is either secular or it's not especially if we're talking about the monetary stroller gens they're very patriarchal all 3 of them i mean women is just a right that islamic feminist have found arguments for the equality of man and

woman in the qur'an story of creation in syria for verse one god didn't create the woman from the river of the man he created an original soul enough saying where you detain which is a feminine term in arabic and took muslims from the injustices of their time to do justice of the time it gave women many important right in depart to old post culture of 7th century arabia but at that time the notion of justice didn't include the idea of equality between man and woman because gender equality is a modern concept. how to be learning in a shape or why did. the psni lair here rush marry her while he had only. their own zenith durbin in a lonely lies easy leora lee of the rhythm we were all beneath the old vision eagle aoa be the. larry larry who were elated

mostly of. us i chose this series of half of you giving back because i love forgiveness a similar problem god created forgiveness in my sleep even before he was asked for forgiveness among the puddle. he. doesn't spend much time in france anymore she left the country because of rising islamophobia and now lives in london. she too sees islam as a source of empowerment for women it's said that mohammed gave dignity back to disenfranchised women. in tree islamic society in arabia women had the same status as animals or possessions they didn't have the right to inherit as they were the inheritance girls were killed at birth then islam came along and said no women must also have the right to inherit that change in

women status back then was revolutionary women with no rights who could be killed given away became people with the right to inherit property. simply sirrah for verse 11 states that a woman should inherit about half of what a man gets. the reason for the unequal treatment is that women didn't usually bear responsibility for providing for their family. so it was taken for granted that men should be allocated the larger share of an inheritance. so ringback this is. the verse says that half of a share of inheritance is the guaranteed minimum for women but there's nothing wrong with giving more than that to the priests. these days women work they

participate in family life i split expenses with my husband 55 also i think more money as a whole also i pay my taxes like a man simple like any that it. is is it ethically justifiable through religion that i only get half. as much as my parents' inheritance. when the qur'an doesn't oppose the quality in that situation still force but i think they get to know me oh. the qur'an and laus men to have up to 4 wives critics of islam claim this is no such any an instrument of male domination. there are a few verses that talk about how they can mean the question is what a new set in this what are titled women and you look at the 1st verse it gives you

the 1st step solution you can marry one to 4 wives so you can't now marry 10 and 15 it is restricted then you have a 2nd verse that comes and says you have to treat all of these wives equally so you can't just it's not just the maximum you also have to keep in mind justice and equality but then you have a 3rd verse that comes and these folk various went to versailles it's that actually even if you want to be equal god knows that you can't be male interpreters for patrick to look at this verse and say the qur'an gave me the right to marry 4 wives but they don't look at the 2 order verses do you treat them equally even if you claim that you do god says that you can't. the head scarf for women is one of his lungs most controversial requirements especially in the west 6 that what is the qur'an actually say. and can feminists wear

headscarves. well it often takes the fantasy way here in a french context in an environment that is vehemently opposed to the headscarf i am a rebel a militant feminist it would look i don't want anyone to tell me whether i can wear a headscarf or not. i'm lucky enough not to be pressured by anyone in my family. my mother was against me wearing one in senegal but i told her that i haven't asked for her opinion and you. should want i want to wear it one day and not the next i don't care what people think herself. so in the name of gender equality we are now denying a muslim woman to control their own bodies to appear in the public space we are punishing them by excluding them from the schools and now there are people who talk about banning the double so in university we are excluding them from workplaces were explaining them from nature activities in the minds of right wing movements

and french radical secular is they became an obsession. to the vast most often used to prescribe their so-called islamic hence graphic to separate. good is of us that simply says to leave the covering can be used by the female. let's put 3 in there for me but that has nothing to do with the requirement to cover the head. of the left their. lives in. this melodic minor frame. because. inside them and i look at what a book occurred on the island. so the kilometer.

this is. from the koran actually this is the 1st suitor that prophet mohammed has received and here god is ordering him to read and this shows the importance of reading and how people should learn more every time to become better people in her cheek in the omani capital muskat. e.c. designs what she calls modest fashion that is fashion that embodies islamic values around the world muslim women spend billions on clothing and accessories every year a raise she is a mother of 3 a successful fashion designer and a devout muslim most of her employees are men islam has always respected woman and always treated the woman the right way so i think where i feel so lucky being a muslim because islam gave me all my rights it's not about being a male or a female it's about if you can earn it if you can work hard to get it.

you can say that i'm a superwoman and i can do everything on my own i don't believe that this can happen like for me to have things run properly for me to be a successful interpreter i need the support of my husband because being a mom is very important but there are some days where i'm so busy like today i have a long day of appointments and i woke up this morning my daughter was sick so my husband decided that he will take the day off just making sure that someone is taking care of my daughter and that i can get my important things done. and. this is going to be my autumn winter collection next year and basically it's inspired by

. the patterns of traditional armani dresses like that are by is something that you see everyone wearing now but it's actually not part of our tradition it's something that came in later on and became so trendy that everyone started wearing it but when you go back to traditional dresses then they're so colorful so full of patterns and completely different than about here. since the 970 s. saudi arabia and other oil producing states have gained influence in the islamic world guest workers took their experiences back to other muslim nations. meanwhile rich ruling elites systematically invested in media as well as financing schools and mosques all this led to the exploitation of a highly conservative interpretation of islam.

the iranian people who overthrew the shah in 1979 partly due to an anti capitalist movement that wanted to end the political and economic influence of the united states. left wing liberals and communists including many women played a major role they couldn't foresee how they situation would deteriorate under the islamic regime with its rigid legal system controlled by shiite religious scholars . a sequel russia here said the pasha should really really it's not the koran sharia is a muslim law is a collection of regulations that were written let's say 2 centuries after the revelation that give us your the. defensible thing about it is the position of

women souk like the stoning of women who commit adultery the truth there is no such thing in the text of the koran there shortly from a group they're all sentencing someone to death for turning away from the religion was this is that it doesn't exist in those terms in the text of the koran zuma sitting pisk so today it's very important to explain to people who want to practice islam that there are differences between quranic text and shari'a and if you have also heard riddick school and nick lash out here. perhaps the most controversial passage in the qur'an is sora for 1st 34 does it really call for men to physically abuse their wives if they rebel. well. the shoes are. 501-0101 that's

a model of what they did when. she tries this is the level of their i chose the verse from the sword or. the women because it symbolizes the security already at that allah the god of islam grants to man over all m.m.'s these are only 5. at universities and europe and the united states islamic feminists in particular have questioned this interpretation. i don't want to hear about in terms of you know i think as if he beats her worthless in the book i can read air about this like most arabs raids on the us if the word means. that is what islamic scholars talk about the ones who explain the verses page by page in the qur'an you mums and was discussed say that you should be women say gently. but they're still saying. what is this d.n.a. of muslim

a tradition and we found out that all this is communitarian interpretations could be traced to one verse which is various $434.00 from sort of new stuff you have the words other people will know which was the word that actually raised most of the controversies and i encourage you to look at the studies and the books that have been books written just about the small words you know the true and back it's meaning and again if you look at this word tradition of the it has been interpreted and translated as being as meaning beating and also used to justify the fact that men could beat their wives when you look at the internal oshie and what this word how this word was used in order instances in the quote and it is used for complete order. to finish and purposes for example it's used when moyes is putting his stick you know there to separate. the sea into. the word that is use is and that. it's not it doesn't mean meeting this interpretation for example would highlight

the fact that this is actually a solution given by god whenever you have a conflict don't act aggressively but instead just separate the bed. put there can bet you didn't see him pal disick iteratively exults you don't go so seriously as far as the result of hoodie if going over so a to let his or her know who can lead to the company of their knowledge to not of the ability do it for me sure could have used. in a could you to choose their seduce so what all's survey say explain the effect this verse says that the prophet was there to deliver the divine revelation. misson it had to have was not a political leader. india god alone is the guardian of all things not the prophet that includes religion issues. i think it's

a great shame that in today's world a group of muslims although not all of them belong to a so-called political islam see their cut unfortunately this is spreading them this is an attempt to islam our society as though islam should return an israeli justice to education to the status of women resolve to the. field of religion shouldn't dominate public life really special bleak that's what i'm fighting against on do of jewelry shoe. size i think the public spaces are there for social interactions. we can't allow women to be splitted from certain spaces and this day in age excludes the sense that this person. i.

am across secular activist fiercely because if we don't separate state and religion and our countries we are never going to be a modern civilized were the states never i'm not but just talking about lebanon i'm talking about everywhere you cannot mix religion with. with politics. that's my hope is that many people aren't afraid of emancipation in much the mancipation doesn't take anything from people it's the opposite we give so much like joy like new discovery and the only thing we have to do of course is now and then trade a part i was never taken before to give us my lovelies can't. tunisia's revolution had a lot to do with emancipation. after the overthrow of the dictator the tunisians

adopted a constitution that put women and men on equal footing. women are now allowed to marry non muslims and violence against women is an offense. if you use the resource this virus and i mean that positively it is here today today agents talk about homosexuality and islam that they talk about equality in inheritance law as in islam they discuss the relationship between being muslim and being a citizen in a democratic country and try to overcome the division and the problems. but still some say it's impossible to be a muslim or down to specially a muslim woman and modern or that it's impossible to be muslim and to stand for absolutely equality between men and women. in the struggle for an islamic feminism muslim women are rising up and fighting their way towards

emancipation with bravery and wisdom. if you look even at the one of the most advanced european european mom countries very few have 5050 percent representation between men and women and it's appalling i mean like for example when i look at it sometimes. of the leaders of the prime ministers of europe when they're gathered all together and i see just angela merkel and maybe one other woman and then all men say this is europe what's happening this is 2019 and europe what. then are we supposed to do here if that is europe you know what i mean so you have a lot to do as well don't think that it is over. too

old. or not too well. what about assuring economists. that change in thinking is changing the economy to create something the. economics magazine in germany. even 90 minutes w. vide says to see people in particular that i like to see

myself as the kids find strains grown up her. own. work afraid. to do the book on you to. in many countries education is still a privilege poverty is one of the main causes some young children lucky mine shafts instead of going to call centers can attend classes come late have to be finished looking. millions of children all over the world who can't go to school. when i ask why. because education makes the world more just. make up your own mind. w. me for mines.

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