Friday, September 4, 2009
Freedoms for Women in Islam
I think that Thanawi's guidelines for women in the "Bihishti Zewar" are more restrictive than liberating for women. Yes, Thanawi advocates some freedoms for women, such as getting an education, but they have to trade in other freedoms, like being able to go outside the home, to get this. Women are supposed to be symbols of piety and representatives of what good Islam is, yet they are not given the same liberties as the men they represent. So while it looks like they have freedoms, they really don't have any freedom at all because of the restrictions on them. Women are expected to be a symbol of their country while being supressed at the same time. And using the freedoms they have, like an education and being able to read and think, I think they would be able to rebel against the men who try to control them.
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I definitely agree that with an education the women would begin to rebel against their men. Even though they would not be able to join together because they cannot leave their homes, they would find things within the homes to fight back with against their husbands. I am not saying that this is a bad thing, but that for Thanawi who believes that the women should be educated but remain within the home this would not work. That is unless what the women are taught are censored so that the women could not get ideas of how to act out against the men.
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