Misconceptions About Islam Disscussion

Misconception Two "In Islam, denial of human rights is okay because; Islam is against pure democracy and Islam tolerates slavery." Islam isn't denying human rights by being against a total democracy. It's felt that the Islmaic state must get it's laws from the Qur'ran and Sunnah and a pure deomocracy would put the people above the Qur'ran and Sunnah and the Qur'ran states that no one is above it. So the concept of pure democracy wouldn't work out for what they believe. Also, it could be argued that the United States and other countries where Islam is not the dominant religon are also against pure demorcracy because, even though we have a democracy it's not a pure democracy so if people were to believe in and follow this misconception then almost every religion would denying human rights. As for the slavery, in the Sunnah it says that everyone is slaves to their lord, and their lord is the higher power that they believe in. Many people were freed from slavery in the Muslim world because of the teachings of Islam. It's also unfair to make a assumptions based on how they view democracy

Misconception Three: "In Islam women are inferior to men because; A man can marry up to four wives, a woman can only marry one man, A man's share of inheritance is bigger than a womans, A man can marry a non-muslim a woman cannot, Women must wear the veil." In the Quran it states that men and women are in fact equal and that Allah favors the people based upon their actions and not upon their gender. To Islams it makes sense that the mans inheirtance is bigger than that of a womans because men are expected to work and support their families while women are not expected to work.