First: What is the controversy of the female journalist disagreeing with the practices done in the mosque and generally in Islam? Is it the approach?
The most engaging moment of this film was the moment where the “preacher” (not sure the word) argued that “because women menstruate and men do not, they cannot be treated the same.” If anything, people who menstruate have the capacity to give life…why isn’t that respected or deemed as “above” man or opposite of a menstruating person?
The ways in which the advocacy against domestic violence were misconstrued purposely to suggest discrimination against the speakers (men holding the preaching event) was almost comedic. How is that justified? What is wrong with wanting Islam to adapt to time? Isn’t that one of the values of Islam anyway? There needs to be growth over time.
I am eager to hear the responses of everyone else in class.
