Is Islam patriarchal or egalitarian? Please elaborate!
Things always get hairy when a descriptive term acquires prescriptive meanings. In western society, many people vehemently disagree about the exact meaning of "patriarchy", "sexism", "bigotry" etc. but agree that it is bad, so the terms get adapted to what each group dislikes.
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And while we might agree on the definition, we challenge that it is bad.
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The question when using the word "patriarchy" descriptively is whether we have a possibly way of using the word to mean a neutral state of affairs. The question is not if Islam is bad, but if Islam assigns more power over political, economic and administrative decisions to men.
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