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Islam, Women and Feminism

Islam, Faith and Feminism: Women find equality in religious traditions

By Anna Pratt

Dr. Fatma Reda, a physician who has a graduate degree in religious philosophy, said her feminism is supported by her reading of the Islamic Koran, which she said treats men and women equally. It doesn't condone oppression against women or other minorities. "I've found feminism in Islam. Feminism wasn't new to me. I grew up as a feminist," she said. For starters, the Koran doesn't imply that Eve seduced Adam in the Garden of Eden, like the Bible does. The couple sinned together. Jointly, they asked for forgiveness. That means that there's "no such thing as original sin or women having to pay for [Eve's sin] ... Young women don't grow up feeling that they're tainted," she said.

In the Koran, Reda said, men weren't given authority over women. No one was assigned to comfort the other, she said. They married for the purpose of propagation. And in practice, Muslim women don't change their last names when they get married, as [many] do in Christian circles. A wife is able to retain control of her money.

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