Misunderstood Muslim Women

The Misunderstood Muslimah

For centuries, women in Islam have been the victims of wrongful misconceptions for either personal or mutual gain to usually denigrate and slander Muslims and the religion of Islam. Although some do have underlying intention, others purely do it out of sheer ignorance, as simply because they do not understand something they hastily deem it as wrong or preposterous. These misconceptions usually focus on the woman’s rights of equality and opportunity, as well as their position and status in Islam. Their modesty and strong sense of dignity is often misunderstood as oppression by the public and by the media who are also responsible for affirming these delusions. Women as mothers, wives and daughters as taught by Islam and shown by the Prophet Mohammed (saw) is something far greater than what is generally understood by the public.

A rarely known fact about Islam is that it came at a time that actually liberated women whom were deprived of humanity to a point where the father of a new born baby would be disappointed if it was a girl and would actually resort to burying her alive. In Pre-Islamic times, the Arabs believed that daughters were a disgrace and futile as they might bring shame upon a family once they reached adulthood and if
Muslim women guard their chastity and their modesty unlike the accepted social ideas of women at the present time, which is to dress up in order to be attractive. This is unlike Muslim women, whose beauty is internal and not external, it is their actions and their minds what make them beautiful and that is what Islam teaches should happen. Women are not to be treated as sexual objects or as something just to satisfy ones needs, they are to be kept forever in your