"Inspired by Muhammad" Campaign

by leavingwt 61 Replies latest social current

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  leavingwt

  In London, the Exploring Islam Founation has launched a new ad campaign.

  The Inspired by Muhammad campaign is designed to improve the public understanding of Islam and Muslims. It showcases Britons demonstrating how Muhammad inspires them to contribute to society, with a focus on women’s rights, social justice and the environment. The campaign coincides with a national poll conducted by YouGov which shows that 69% of people believe that Islam encourages the oppression of women, that just 6% of people associate Islam with justice and that a mere 6% believe that Islam promotes active measures to protect the environment. Overall, nearly half of all people in the UK believe that Islam does not have a positive impact on British society.

  

  What do you think of this?
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  chickpea

  pbuh
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  snowbird

  Shalom aleichem/asalaam alaikum.

  Syl
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  bohm

  Obligatory:

  (this one should be worn by a creepy looking white fellow)

  I believe in having sex with children so did Mohammed.

  (this one should be worn by a saudi prince)

  I believe in stoning people for adulteryso did Mohammed.

  (should be worn by a skinhead)

  I believe in exterminating jewsso did Mohammed.
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  leavingwt

  From the Atheist Foundation of Australia's website:

  . . .

  Turkey's women are the most liberated in the Muslim world. This was achieved not through Islamic reformation but through secularisation established by the founder of the modern Turkish republic Kemal Ataturk. Kemal was the product of secular education and had always admired Western culture. He pursued a program of westernisation that affected all aspects of Turkish life - women were granted the vote and veiling was prohibited. If the Turkish system were to collapse and replaced by an Islamic theocracy we can be certain that women's progress will be reversed and women will be at the mercy of the mullahs. In countries where there has been a raise in fundamentalism and reversal to strict religious law such as Pakistan, Sudan and Afghanistan women are targeted with vengeance and brutality.

  Some Muslim scholars agree that Mohammed did proclaim some rights for Muslim women. For example he abolished the pre-Islamic Arabian custom of burying alive unwanted female infants. He also decreed that women could own and inherit property, and that women have the right to enjoy sex!

  However, he did enshrine women's inequality and inferior status in immutable Quranic law accepted by Muslims as the infallible word of God.

  "Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because men spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those among you who fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them." Sura 4:34

  "...Women shall with justice have rights similar to those exercised against them, although men have a status above women. God is mighty and wise." Sura 2:228

  . . .

  http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/articles/islam-and-womens-rights
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  PSacramento

  The problem with Islam is that they forgot that, just as Mohammed progressed certain things, things still need to be progressed even further.

  Women's roles need to be revised as do punishments and many other things and one wonders if Mohammed, if he was alive today, wouldn't have been the first to do so.

  Of course this is conjecture becasue we really don't know that much about Mohammed but we do know that he did modify many things, of course the funny part is that IF Mohammed was alive and tried to chaneg things he'd probably be stoned by those very people !!
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  Justitia Themis

  I believe in
  having sex with children
  so did Mohammed.

  You mean...like King David and other good Bible characters?

  I believe in
  stoning people for adultery
  so did Mohammed.

  You mean like the Israelites...right?

  I believe in exterminating jewsso did Mohammed.

  You mean like the Jews tried to exterminate the Canaanites...right?

  Yes...the Christian holy book is soooooooooo much better...
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  Robdar

  We're talking about Muslims here. Stop trying to distract the issue.

  Support Islam? How about this from the above link?

  The Taliban, a product of the Madrasah - fundamentalist religious school where boys spend hours every day reciting and memorizing the Qur'an - has taken the subjugation of women to new heights. Women were barred from employment and girls are forbidden to attend school. Women were also denied medical care because it was illegal for women to be examined by a male doctor. Any woman caught in the company of a male not related to her was sentenced to death and women were not permitted to leave the house without being accompanied by a male relative. Some women earned a small income by baking bread, when discovered by the Taliban they were burned alive in their own ovens.

  In Muslim societies religion governs all aspects of life and has priority over secular laws and local customs, therefore, the excuse that tradition alone is responsible for women's oppression is untenable. Unless Muslim apologists are prepared to back their claims by a campaign to reform their religion and improve the situation of women, their assertions that Islam is blameless in oppressing women, are null and void.

  Survivor of honor killing

  Survivor of honor killing

  Think what you want about the Jews, bring up whatever you want about their past conduct (which they do not lie about or try to hide) but you will never find a Jewish man doing the above to his Jewish woman.
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  snowbird

  I believe in
  having sex with children
  so did Mohammed.

  You mean...like King David and other good Bible characters?

  Now, King David may have liked his women, but there is absolutely no indication that he was a pedophile.

  Syl
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  PSacramento

  Islam has A LOT to answer for, no one is denying that.