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@ Keyplus
Thanks for providing the link. I presume, since you provided the link, that you would agree with and endorse the opinion of the Imam? Because the explanation given by the Imam of why a muslim woman cannot marry outside of her faith is because she is too weak willed - such a marriage would "jeopardise her faith". The answer, incidentally, reaffirms the insularity of the abrahamic religions. The advice is clear that muslim males should only exceptionally marry outside the faith, and only then to women of other abrahmic religions.
So your faith dictates marriage practice, and demeans women by assuming they are not as strong willed as men, and reinforces that by saying it is allahs will that women are prohibited in this fashion.
Plainly mysogynistic, plainly sexist- and if you believe this and endorse it, that makes you sexist too, Keyplus.
You made an attempt to answer v_es questions, but sort of fell at the first hurdle really. You response to the question about why the opinion of someone 1400 years ago in matters of dress is relevant now was just garbled and unintelligible, to me at least. I mean, why is it forbidden by allah for men to wear gold and/or silk? So it would not be right for a bloke to wear a gold silk tie? It is plainly nonsense.
You seem to take as an article of faith ( no surprise there really) that the fact that some western women will marry muslim men, convert to islam even, offers some sort of proof that Islam cannot be sexist or mysogynistic. That simply is not true. The truth about the religion is to be found in the teachings of the Koran and the advice doled out by the Imams, and this is crystal clear - women are to be considered subordinate and subservient to men. And whilst cultural interpretations may vary somewhat when it comes to modesty dress codes, the salient fact remains that the authority for the cultural practice is derived from tradition and the faith itself.