Yesterday Jihad Watch reported that Muslim hardliners had attacked Women’s Day marchers in Pakistan. It is not surprising that this has happened in other Muslim countries as well: “While the world…celebrated International Women’s Day with joyful events and colourful initiatives, women’s marches were attacked in Muslim-majority Asian countries, namely Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Turkey. In some […]
Pakistan: Provincial parliament adopts resolution denouncing women’s marches as “shameless and un-Islamic act”
Linda Sarsour, call your office. “Pakistani lawmakers claim women’s march was anti-Islam,” Associated Press, March 21, 2019: Provincial lawmakers in northwestern Pakistan have assailed as anti-Islamic women’s marches held earlier this month across the country to mark the International Women’s Day. Lawmakers in the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa provincial parliament unanimously adopted a resolution on Wednesday denouncing […]
Qur’an quote for International Women’s Day: “As for those from whom you fear disobedience…beat them” (4:34)
It’s International Women’s Day, an excellent time for a Qur’an study. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women […]