Government Oppression and Corruption: Women In Islam

In todays society muslim women are given the same opportunities as men. Yet society still labels them as oppressed. Abdulla has said “the quran differentiates between male and female. It says men and women were created of a single soul and are moral equals in the sight of god.” Muslim women are not forced to wear the hijab, burqa, niqab or any other religious head piece they have a choice. And it is not up to others to label them as oppressed. If anything Muslim women feel more liberated wearing the hijab, burqa and niqab.

This research will demonstrate the concept of Quebec majority versus the ones that are considered "other" or minority, specifically Muslim women. The methodologies and surrounding utilized by the print media along with the specific scope of specific issues created polarization amongst minority and greater part gathers. This research will summon an Orientalist focal point to show how racializing talks are portrayed in a monitored subtext over and the news print to support the protection of Quebec character. The strategy that is utilized is the basic analysis of two newspaper articles that are reflected from Gazette and Lap Presse. This examination aims to identify the importance of the representations of Muslim women in the specific recorded understanding of Quebecois in their particular dialect and culture. This essay will reveal that portion of the media procedures within the Quebec context. This will exhibit that Muslim women are minimized and victimized on the premise of their race, sexual orientation and social character. Revealing that the news print media makes harming depictions of Muslim women. The end goal is to counter these negative depictions. Individuals must be instructed how to think fundamentally about the media and build up the fitting media education ways so that they can comprehend what social value are implied.

In the Middle East women have always been inferior to men. With the introduction of Islam with the revelation of the Quran in 610 CE; women are considered equal to men in the eyes of Allah but in society they remain inferior. This can be attributed to local cultural practices that have been ingrained into society. As of recent years, there has been a feminist push in the Middle East to gain more power in society. From the golden age of the Middle East during the Umayyad Caliphate to present with the many nations in the region today, the women have impacted the social, political, economical, and culture of Middle Eastern society.

The Taliban emerged through promising of peace for the people following the decade long war with the Soviet Union (McNamara). This group gradually spread throughout Afghanistan, as militias readily surrendered the areas they were controlling (Rashid). As an Islamic Fundamentalist group, the Taliban formed the Islamic Empire of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 (“Taliban”). While in power, the Taliban imposed strict Sharia law (Islamic Law) on its people, which included: public executions, the violation of fundamental human rights, forbidding girls from attending school and forbidding women from working outside the home (“The Taliban’s War Against Women”). Further, the Taliban refused to extradite Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, who was accused of organizing terrorist attacks against Western interests (“Taliban”). As a result, following the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon in September 2001, the Taliban was driven from power due to an American led invasion of Afghanistan (“Taliban”).

In the US, we think that women are oppressed in the middle east. Some of the stereotypes that we use against the women who live in the middle east are that they are not given fair treatment from all men. Some men are do not think the same way.The men (in the middle east) treat them like slaves.For example, women should just stay at home and take of their children. This would be an accurate statement for some of the women ,but the women think that there is nothing wrong with staying at home. Another statement that we misinterpret is that women are not educated because they stay at home with their children. I found from CNN that two-thirds of women make up the majority population of Middle Eastern Countries when enrolling in college . Next statement,

After 20 years of civil war, the Taliban, an extremist militia, took over and plunged Afghanistan into gender apartheid. The Taliban is a group composed of all men; they initially started to take over in 1994, but they didn’t overthrow the capital, Kabul, until 1996. Many people originally thought they would help stabilize the country; however, its oppressive laws threw women into destitution. Shortly after the Taliban came to power, women’s right for healthcare, education, and other lifestyle constraints drastically changed placing women into a state of virtual house arrest.

When the Taliban was running the government, women encountered more problems in the field of health. Health care statistics for Afghan women are among the lowest in the world, the Taliban also imposed rules attaching to how women achieve medical attention in 1997, hospitals were closed to women, and Women could only go to a clinic. Taliban regime started systematically enforcing a previously ignored policy segregating male and female medical patients into different hospital in September 1997. All female hospital is personnel including physicians’ nurses, pharmacies, and technicians were prohibited from working in 22 hospital in Kabul. Then men and women must remain segregated in hospitals. This is a discrimination against women

upon the woman to cover her face in front of such man. However, this is not the place to quote all those authorities. And Allah knows best said by Sheikh Ibn Uthaimin. (Manderola, 2013)

Throughout Islamic history and development, many great women were part of key contributions to the development and evolution of society and the world at large. From sahabieen, to women who helped contribute to education and medicine, and women today who are helping in making progress for the rights of Muslim. The imprint that women have left and continue to leave is notable and important.

During the 1960s, Afghanistan used one of the most forward thinking countries when it came to women’s rights. Women were allowed to wear whatever they want, they could go out in public alone without the fear of being attacked, education was a right not a struggle but most importantly they were treated equally to men.Since the Taliban involved in 1994 and became the government in 1996 women have been treated worse the vermin. Now women are forced to cover themselves head to toe, woman are banned from going outside and when they do a man, their husband has to go with them are else they will be publicly shamed, now they have to fight for a right to an education and are considered half of a man.

In the Sambia women are perceived as healthy and men worn down. This is because women are seen as being gifted with the production of blood, which in this culture is associated with vitality and longevity for this gender. If these female fluids are present in males it is believed that their development will be inhibited (Herdt, 1987:76-77). Through this it is made clear that women are somewhat powerful figures with the potential to impact masculinity substantially. This is further enforced through the notion that female consumption of semen- the fluid responsible for masculine development- would be perceived as strong like males and not vulnerable (Herdt, 1987:34). Overall it seems as though women are at a (biological) advantage to males: they are healthier than males, have the potential to inhibit male development and benefit from inducing male fluids. This in turn suggests that women are important in this culture which I found particularly interesting considering the expanse of oppression faced by women over the years in western societies.

Growing up I saw two kinds of women in my life: those who were housewives and those who were waiting to become housewives. It was not something that was forced; however, it was not contested either. Women in my world see getting married and having children as an accomplishment. If you have achieved these pillars, then you can say you have succeeded. In my culture, it is a man’s job to be the breadwinner and the woman's job to rear the children. I did not see anything wrong with this, until I understood the culture that I came from. If women had made this choice because it was what they wanted then there would nothing wrong with that choice, but it was a cultural obligation for these women not a choice.

In the New York Times article, “Jihad and Girl Power: How ISIS Lured 3 London Girls,” Katrin Benhold composed how 16-year-old Khadiza Sultana and 15-year-old Amira Abase and Shamima Begum left their home, Bethnal Green, East London to Syria, join the terrorist organization ISIS. It all began when Khadiza had not returned home one evening, and her older sister, Hamlima Khanom, was worried about where she had been. After filing a complaint for her sister, the Metropolitan Police, had reported that she had been last seen in Turkey for her flight to Istanbul, along with her two friends. The trio became known as the, “troubling phenomenon: young women attracted to…jihadi, girl-power subculture” (Benhold). The troubled trio slowly started to show

In other verse brings that men have domination on women bodies as they have domination on their lands. "Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will... Qur'an (2:223)"(Yusuf Ali). So in Quran, anyway women are responsible to obey and men can use them as their lands. These mean when Islam claims that human are equal, in other verse and cases they completely reject them and there are many paradoxes in Islam and these mean Islam is not complete religion. A complete religion when mention something, it believes in it but Islam is not like that. These are the reason that Islamic countries are more violent, poor, in fight with each other and the most corrupted counties.

Documentaries concerning sexual harassment in Egypt are getting more serious each day. The problem is age-old, however not till lately the government and the media started taking actions against this striking crime. Sexual harassment is present in every society around the world, in every place in Egypt – and it cost women an immeasurable damage emotionally and physically. It terrorizes women holding them back from their lives, work and duties, forcing them to measure the value of opportunities against the risk to their safety. The way sexual harassment has created fear in every basic life demand, women always trying to find a more secure path in their lives by avoiding sexual harassment, which sometimes manipulate their actions and decisions.