Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, or WISE has come into being, aim of which would be to construe Koran in the feminist point of view and to shed the conventional belief about their religion, which states that Muslims are terrorists and Islam, oppresses women.
Many asserted that strict sharia law was not divine because it was created by men and should be changed to incorporate women’s rights.
Zainab Anwar, executive director of Sisters in Islam, a Malaysian organization working on women’s rights within the Islamic framework asserted,
In our societies men hold power and they decide what Islam should mean and how we can obey that particular understanding of Islam. I can’t live with a God that is unjust. The law is progressive, but those men controlling the law aren’t.
Hmm... sounds great, now let’s hope women in the Muslim countries too get this opportunity of ‘reformation’.
