Women in Islam: Through Western Eyes This lecture serves as a tool to help in this great challenge as Dr. Lisa Killinger, an Amercian convert to Islam, shares her experiences with non-Muslims both before and after September 11th. She opens by telling her story of how she discovered Islam on the Iowa State University campus. She then continues by echoing the question asked by her own mother upon her conversion, What kind of woman would want to be a Muslim, after all they are oppressed! So Dr. Killinger debunks this myth by outling the status of women in pre-Islamic Arabia and how Islam liberated and dignified them by giving them rights which are still upheld to this day…. books.google.ca/books?id=qGvZiHefz0UC&pg=PT213&lpg=PT213&dq=Women+In+Islam:+Through+Western+Eyes&source=bl&ots=mlxmWlkAZe&sig=pGvC06RNqSS4Ouk7jAbXSQAGToU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KgqZUqLCKofUoASLpoCIBQ&ved=0CGsQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Women%20In%20Islam%3A%20Through%20Western%20Eyes&f=false
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:47:16 +0000
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