Is Islam Misogynistic? (Muslim woman answers and provides sources)

[the cac mamba]

Lets talk about hijabs...the headscarf Muslim women wear. A lot of ppl equate Muslim women to be oppressed and looked down upon in Islam, but that statement is a misconception on it's own. Women wear it so they are not judged by their external appearance but rather by their own intellect and character. Also, they wear it to guard their beauty from unfamiliar eyes and to save everything for the one guy who will love, cherish and protect them, and I think that is just a beautiful thing and frankly it should make a guy feel good knowing his wife is saving everything for his eyes only; I can never understand why some guys are into having their girls put everything out for the whole world to see.
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[88m3]

You're a smart guy. Why do you think they do this?

As a guy to have something to show off or something nice to look at coming from a mans prospective.

Whats going thought a woman's mind I'm not sure. It depends where her heads at.

If I see a classy well dressed model esque physic woman while I'm about I'll have her bent over a balcony before the weeks though.

 

[Gallo]

Women wear it so they are not judged by their external appearance but rather by their own intellect and character. Also, they wear it to guard their beauty from unfamiliar eyes and to save everything for the one guy who will love, cherish and protect them

You should weave a thread between 1st and 2nd sentence because the 1st can't exist without the 2nd. The 2nd sentence is really about man being the protector of his woman not wanting another man to take his place and woman not wanting her protector to choose another woman to protect. This invariably leads to women being "closed off" so to speak - but, as is seen with muslim women, even they tend to agree with it, (because it works both ways, being veiled theoretically prevents the man from choosing another woman to protect - of course that doesn't hold up in practice).

It boils down to an individual's actions always being geared toward ascertaining the requirements of their perception of their survival. But what happens when the evolution of society yields a very successful society in that the basic needs for survival are available, but not "freely" per se. That's where your 1st sentence comes in as women's intellect and individualism were irrelevant when the hijab rule was created. People are social creatures and rationalize whatever to sustain their core beliefs. The core beliefs are founded on traditionalism so to speak, in that they are the cultural leftovers of the past. Basically, it can be seen as respect at the individual level, depending upon the individual psychology. However, the overall phenomenon is really a case of people justifying their presumption. They use the excuse of "respect for a woman's intellect etc" because it has an affirming affect upon the invididual egos involved.

Your 1st sentence is more abstract as compared to your 2nd. So the survival instinct is stretched throughout an individual's psyche throughout their perception of their circumstance. This leaves us with an abstract base for surviving, rather than the tangible. This leads to a lot of interesting results, but the pertinent one for this is the justification of the "rules of the tribe" in whatever way a particular individual can manage to rationalize it.

 

[NaiSim]

Its interesting that people are willing to plant seeds in these womens heads to revolt and shed their blood but not actually help them in liberating themselves. How are women, going to liberate themselves in a nation where they could easily round up 1000 of them and squash them into dust just to make an example and all the men be ok with it?

Because outside interference will destroy all credibility of equality movements. It always has, it always will.