Islam

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Islam gives equal life to everyone ? The Western world is often blamed by Islam about its godless, inhuman behavior. They say we do not respect people who are weaker and different from us, and thereby condemn them to a lower class of life. In this article I do not want to apologize for the fact that more blacks than whites can be found in American prisons or anything else concerning our life style, but I want to give an example that Moslems are no better people than we are: A woman in Islam has practically no rights. When we ask a Muslim about the way a woman is treated in Islam he will answer that women are treated after Islamic belief. He will also say that women are equal to men, but they are just not the same. That a woman is not the same to a man sounds understandable, but so is no human being the same to any other human being. Indirectly, this statement is therefore an admission, that men and women are not equal. Injustice is also shown by the statement, that women are treated after Islamic belief. How can life be equal for both sexes when the Qur an, -written by prophet Muhammad, was only translated by men? After all, those men interpreted it from their point of view. That is not necessarily inhuman but of course it will influence the meaning in a more men-sympathetic direction. When we go back in time and look at the prophet Muhammad we can see that he was said to be a man who swept his room, washed his clothes and supported his family greatly. Today in Islam we ...