Western Views of Women in Islam

It is important to recognize some of the prejudices that Westerners often incorporate into Islam before digging down the ideals and movements of Islamic feminism. As the Arab world depicts women through mass culture and media, some Westerners may think that Islam created a society that needs modernity. The concept of religious government is also new to Western European countries. As a law aimed at minimizing the importance of women as citizens, feminists tend to focus on the practice of covering women in Islamic traditions.

Academic Differences When analyzing the theme of Islam, especially Muslim women, the views of scholars and critics are deeply influenced by a specific cultural point of view. People with a Western background such as the Swiss born writer Charles Le Gayton tend to compare Muslims and Christianity; Eaton said that Islam with certain important qualifications " It is a system of conclusion. On the contrary, those from the East Asian background tend to emphasize the similarity between Islam and Taoism, highlighting the complementarity between the two sexes: According to Japanese scholar Murata Tomoko, her Means that we should use Beijing as a kind of means "Islamic doctrine on women's principles is not contrary to the original text."

Philip W. Sutton and Stephen Vertigans express the view of Islam as "sword religion" based on "stereotypes as violent religion". They said that the image of Islam in the Western world was "led by conflict, aggression, fundamentalism, and violent terrorism on a global scale." Juan Eduardo Campo wrote as follows. "People in Europe are seeing Islam in various ways," The core of Muslim's general concept as a violent religion is imposed by the regime that wants to strengthen their national and international Islamic beliefs It is a punishment, "Robert Gleave wrote.

According to Mazrui, most Westerners tend to believe that the belief in the Islamic society is a bit late. Normally Westerners think that this is due to Muslim suppressed religious beliefs. They also believe that Islamic society is inhumane compared to liberalization of Western European countries and comprehensive democracy. However, the measurement of the difference between Western and Islamic cultures is somewhat complicated and the difference between them is narrower than most of Western beliefs. Islam is not only regarded as religion, but most of it is not mere fundamental political movement, civilization and lifestyle, from Muslim country to country. Westerners do not seem to understand how their society can not realize their free myths. Westerners believe that many aspects of medieval Islamic culture may become dominant even in their own culture until recently