Here is my response
to a Christian-Basher:
You have mistakenly charged that Islam’s teachings about
wives and women are similar to the Bible’s teachings. So bear with me as I make
some comparisons between the Koran and the New Testament. I’ll cite the Koran
first and follow it with NT teachings:
[Surah 2.223] Your wives are a tilth
[cultivated field] for you, so go into your tilth when you like, and do
good beforehand for yourselves…
In the Koran, the male’s needs are
supreme. The wife must service her husband on demand. Instead, the NT teaches
equality and mutuality:
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Cor. 7:3-5: The husband should fulfill
his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife's
body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the
husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. Do not
deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may
devote yourselves to prayer.
[Surah 2.228] And the divorced women
should keep themselves in waiting for three courses; and it is not lawful for
them that they should conceal what Allah has created in their wombs, if they
believe in Allah and the last day; and their husbands have a better right to
take them back in the meanwhile if they wish for reconciliation; and they have
rights similar to those against them in a just manner, and the men are a
degree above them, and Allah is Mighty, Wise.
In the Koran, men have more value
and rights than women. However, in the NT, both are of equal value:
·
Galatians 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek,
slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
o Ephes.
5:31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united
to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
[Surah 2.282] …call in to witness from
among your men two witnesses; but if there are not two men, then one man and
two women from among those whom you choose to be witnesses…
The court testimony of a man is
equal to two women. In the NT, there is no distinction:
·
1 Cor. 11:11: In the Lord, however, woman is not
independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
[Surah 4:34]
Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to
excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of
women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah
hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and
banish them to beds apart, and scourge them…
The Bible never counsels a husband
to beat or physically abuse his wife. Instead:
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Peter 3:7: Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your
wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you
of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
·
Col. 3:19: Husbands, love your wives and do not
be harsh with them.
·
Ephes. 5:28-33: In this same way, husbands ought
to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After
all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as
Christ does the church… However, each one of you also must love his wife as he
loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Here is a video of a Muslim cleric teaching wife beating: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/01/islam_beating_w.html
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