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"As converts to Islam in the early ’80′s, we were usually given to understand (both by conservative Muslims, as well as by the wider non-Muslim society) that the teachings on gender, family and sexuality that we received were uniquely Muslim.

Meaning, that if we had a problem with these teachings, we had a problem with God himself, and if they didn’t work out well in our lives, there must be something wrong with us and not with the ideas themselves (from the perspective of conservative Muslims). Or meaning (from the perspective of the wider society) that this only goes to show that Islam and Muslims are innately misogynistic, and choosing to be Muslim inevitably means choosing to be oppressed."

I stumbled across this blog and was shocked at the similarities in these paragraphs and the evangelical Christianity in my childhood. What should be an encompassing faith is a rigid religion not that much different from the Islamic teaching shown above.

Pretty depressing . . .used to be shocked. Back when my hubby and I were looking around at liberal churches, we found a denomination that seemed to fit our thinking . . .only after several months did we find that they were just fundamentalists about a different set of standards . . .