This story should be sent to every feminist in the country.

One of the guests, Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, the Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., explained that, "There is nothing in Islam that does not accord women equal rights and respect. Islam encourages women to participate and be a productive member of society."

Another guest, Professor Akbar Ahmed, who served as the Pakistani Ambassador to Great Britain and is now the Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington D.C., stated that there was a "commonality" between Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the "emphasis" on "family life."

Oprah didn’t challenge these statements.

After the program, I was very traumatized. I tried to synthesize Oprah’s show with everything I have read in the Qur’an – and in other Islamic texts. I failed miserably.

I’m very confused.

In the Qur’an, Surah 2:28 tells us that men are superior to women. Surah 4:34 commands a man to beat his wife as soon as she shows any sign of disobedience to his orders. The verse reads, "As for these women, fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart and scourge them."

The Prophet Mohammed was kind enough to leave no misunderstanding on this matter in the hadiths, which are his Sunnah (sayings and doings) as recorded meticulously by his companions. They are considered to have the same authenticity as the Qur’an by the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world.

In his hadith in volume 3:826 of the Sahih Al-Bukhari, Imam Al-Bukhari quotes Mohammed’s order to the husband regarding his wife: "Hang up your scourge where your wife can see it."

The Prophet, however, was loving enough to command that, according to Imam Kitab al-Nikah’s hadith No. 1850 in The Book of Marriage, "you shall not slap her on the face, nor revile her, nor desert her except within the house."

It’s a good thing that some contemporary Islamic teachers are a little more liberal on this issue. Abdul-latif Mushtahiri is a prime example. In his book, You Ask and Islam Answers, he instructs on page 94 that, while he is all up for a good wife-beating, it is a good idea to stop short of any broken bones or shedding of blood. He patiently explains that, "Many a wife belongs to this querulous type and requires this sort of punishment to bring her to her senses!"

I’m confused.

Is this the "family life" that Professor Ahmed was referring to on Oprah in regard to the "commonality" between Islam, Christianity and Judaism? Or was he referring, perhaps, to Prophet Mohammed’s instruction to husbands, quoted in Imam Kitab al-Nikah’s hadith No. 1850, that, "It is that you shall give her food when you have taken your food, that you shall clothe her when you have clothed yourself"?

I wonder what comment Oprah’s guests would make about Al-Bukhari’s hadith, in volume 3:826 of the Sahih Al-Bukhari, that quotes Mohammed saying that women are deficient in mind and religion? Is this why Surah 4:3 allows a man to marry up to four wives at the same time, so that the other three can make up for the deficiency of the individual retarded one?

When the Pakistani ambassador told Oprah that "Islam encourages women to participate and be a productive member of society," was she referring to Surah 2:223, which states that a wife is a sex object for her husband? It’s quite a poetic verse: "Your wives are as a tilth unto you, so approach your tilth when or how ye will."

Aside from having more than nine wives, the Prophet Mohammed married six-year old Aisha and consummated his marriage with her when she was nine. Al-Bukhari’s Sahih Al-Bukhari is filled with references (i.e. vols. 5:236, 7:64, 7:65, 7:88) to this inspiring ingredient of Islam that all Muslims must accept.

I’m very confused.

Is Oprah planning to have an "Islam 202"? Is that when she will ask her guests about six-year old Aisha? Or is it when she will recommend the book Rage Against the Veil – the heartbreaking account about how Islam mutilates the lives and souls of women and children? The book tells the story of Homa Darabi, an Iranian female doctor and human rights activist, who committed suicide, by self-immolation, in a crowded public square in Tehran in 1994 to bring awareness to the nightmarish realities that, for some reason, were forced into invisibility on Oprah’s "Islam 101."

I think you should contact Oprah and her folks with this information. In all fairness this should be proclaimed. What stark contradiction to what was depicted on O's show.

The Media, Left and Academia have never been against religion, they are simply against Jesus. Any religion other than Chrsitianity is OK with them, no matter how evil it is, because it's opposed to Christianity.

Notice how the Left groups rail against using the word "Christmas" in schools to describe the Holidays, but could care less about Halloween, a religious, Satanic holiday.

sheesh!!!

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Here is the Rod Dreher piece from last week on this same Oprah show:

Islam According to Oprah

I hope these shallow minds realize the truth soon. This is a war and reality is totally different.

Yawn...

Non-Muslims thinking they understand Islam better than Muslims.

Femenazi in this country:

"See no evil, hear no evil"

Oprah, like other leftist/communists is against the sort of people who built this country.

Anyone who would standup against real injustice, anyone who would resist despotism, anyone resisting draconion measures by a government that only wants to 'help', these are the people Oprah and her ilk hate.

It seems to be the mission of persons like her to isolate, belittle, discredit and demonize anyone who disagrees with the lib/communist elites and their agenda.

Well, we're here to find out the truth. Please explain to us why these verses, taken from their holy book, can be disregarded or are false. Were they taken out of context? Were they given as examples of how NOT to behave? Were the sarcastically made? Back up your posts with more that a childish yawn.

Well the Left created this movement of the "oppressed" and now a few Neo-conservatives think it can be shut down in a short amount of time, they're wrong.

'Understanding' islam is not a priority for most people.

But,
1)given the behavior of certain maniacs of that ilk and...
2)the by and large lukewarm denounciations by persons of that belief system in this country to any reactions against terrorists seem to...
3) indicate that defending against the possibility of another attack, from without or WITHIN to be reasonable and prudent.

Yawn. .......Why don't you wake up and start splainin then!

Well, well, well...

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Authored: The KORAN and the KAFIR - by A. Ghosh

CHAPTER 1 OF KAFIRS AND ZIMMIS

All non-Moslems are infidels. However, there are gradations. The people of the Book (meaning the Bible, both the old and the new testaments) are the Jews, the Christians and the Moslems. According to Islam, Mohammed was the last prophet and there would be no other future prophet or prophets.

The Jews and Christians are considered as people of little faith by the followers of Islam. On the other hand, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Jains, the Sikhs, the Zoroastrians, the Taoists, in fact, all other religions are considered as the religions of the kafirs. They are the worst of all and do not have the right to exist in this world unless of course they accept Islam unconditionally.

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...peaceful and gentle religion???

family life???sheesh!!

Bump for a great article.

Actually, Islam is loaded with anti-women statements. However, the Jewish Talmud has just as much vile statements against women. In real life, most Jewish people don't pay attention to the Talmud, except the fanatics. I wish it was the same thing in Islam. Typically, more than 70% of moslems are fanatics, and have NO RIGHT TO IGNOR their books for fear of GOVERNMENTAL punishment. I wonder if reformed progressive Jews typically don't believe and reject the Talmud?

Asking "What Is Islam" is a completely pointless exercise. Just like Christianity has hundreds of different sects, each of which interprets the Bible differently, Islam has all sorts of different divisons. We can sit and try to analyze the Koran all day long, but it doesn't matter. All that matters is how the majority of Muslims WANT TO INTERPRET IT, and HOW THEY ACT as a result. If they're helping to carry out mass murder, or even just giving aid and comfort to the enemy because they're "fellow Muslims," then they are the enemy and must be dealt with accordingly.