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Questionable Teachings of Islam:

One Billion People Deceived

One only needs to wonder what is really in the hearts and minds of Muslim women who
sense a seeming unfairness from their husbands, their clerics and the Allah that they
serve? Perhaps the following excerpts of one woman's prayer can explain:

"Please, Allah, leave us alone to cry and weep in peace. From behind the veil, beyond
public gaze we want to cry ['til] we cannot cry anymore. This is the only right you have
left us Muslim women, throughout the Islamic world, where your laws are meticulously
followed...we are tied forever to the rigid and immutable shackles of your laws, Allah. No

one ever came forward for our emancipation. Unique is our society!

...What an unbearable existence for us to live and survive among co-wives... the frequent
fights among co-wives, the pulling at one another's hair are so degrading! And then, God

forbid if the miyan, or husband, gets into the fray, then we get beaten like a beast until
we cannot take it anymore. And after the beating, to make it more degrading, the miyan
takes his other wife into the bedroom and shuts the door into our face.

...Islam means peace. To watch silently the persecution of women is perhaps this peace.

Such lack of concern for women has prevented all improvement in our condition. No
blessing or show of kindness from our angels has been bestowed upon us and so, Allah,
we are telling you once again about our sadness.

...And so, there is nothing for a Muslim woman to look forward to. There is a lot of tears

to shed though. A lot of weeping that has no remedy. And so we are crying out to you,
Oh Allah, you have given us one and only one privilege and that is to weep. Please
therefore let us weep in peace and leave us alone."

"The Bitter Lament of a Muslim Woman" by Jahanara Begum

For the complete text of Jahanara Begum's prayer, find it at:

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/isis/islamic_viewpoints/the_bitter_lament_of_a_muslim_woman/

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