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Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World, Newly updated By Jan Goodwin ( Plume )
Release Date: 2002-12-31
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A look at the treatment of Muslim women in the Islamic world describes the increasing repressive politics that govern their personal lives and how they are confined, isolated, and even killed to protect ""male honor."" 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.
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Putting our own house in order ( dh61 )
Muslim women pay a high price for their (and their male family members') honor. This book details the trials and tribulations of women in the Muslim world.
The prejudice, discrimination and crimes it describes can all be found here in the west. I suggest that the problem is patriarchy, not Islam. Focusing on a particular religion lets all the rest of us off the hook.
This book is helpful if it makes me think about how often I have discriminated against women and how I justify my actions; and less helpful if I continue to see the problem as being somebody else's problem somewhere else.
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 The book has never been more relevant ( williampauljones )
I highly recommend this book. Jan Goodwin
provides in an engaging, superbly reported look
at the present-day treatment of women in
countries still bound by the strictures of
medieval Islamic law. Though the book was written
in 1995, and updated after 9/11, its relevance
has never been greater than it is today as we
struggle to understand the increasingly dangerous
world we live in. Above all, "Price of Honor"
gave me renewed appreciation for the Western
world I live in and the freedoms that we - men
and women alike - so easily take for granted.
This book is a must read!
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 Interesting book but with a bit of whitewashing.. ( proudinfidel )
In 1989 I lived in Cairo, Egypt for several months. Being female I experienced (and witnessed) a good deal of the typical misogynistic behavior one would expect from a Muslim male. I could never understand how the Islamic communities I visited could be so mistrustful and even outwardly angry with women just for the sake of being women. I have been fascinated with learning more every since.
Goodwin writes very interesting and detailed accounts of various Muslim women in ten different locations throughout the Middle East. One thing in common with all women is the cruel,oppressive and immoral treatment by men in general but more specifically her own family be it father, brother or husband. Women in these countries have no rights and assume a subserviant, second class role upon birth. Lack of knowledge, lack of support and fear of punishment keep these women from seeking help or challenging authority. Goodwin also discusses the shocking phenomenon of honor killing that while not versed in the Holy Koran it is exclusively Islamic and is both endorsed and encouraged by Imams, clerics etc..as the only way to restore honor to a family.
I didn't give Goodwin a 4 or 5 star review because I believe that Goodwin (like most journalists/media) has whitewashed, for the sake of political correctness, the true history of Islam and the role women play. So much of what we hear or read on the news has been manipulated because the western world has allowed itself to become handicapped by political correctness.
While it is true that the Prophet Mohammed was loving and monogamous to his first wife Khadija (an independant and wealthy woman in her own right) we know that changed after her death. Supposedly through Mohammed, Allah advised Muslims to marry no more than 4 women and to care for each equally. However Mohammed said Allah's rule didn't apply to him and with at least 11 wives and numerous concubines(sex slaves) Mohammed doesn't really win any sensitivity votes! The most famous wife was Aisha who was 6 yrs old when the marriage contract was made (she was 9 yrs old when consummated)She was also known as the favorite wife. She herself said Mohammed struck her and once proclaimed "I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing woman." This should say volumes about the treatment of woman during Mohammeds life. Islamic history shows that the more adherents to Islam Mohammed acquired and the more powerful and feared he became as a political leader the more the revelations began to change. Allah began advising Mohammed to be more restrictive with his people and less tolerant to unbelievers. These new revelations were to cancel out the existing peaceful ones through the process of abrogation.
Mohammed did not hold women in high regard and is proven over and over in several sura's or hadiths regarding women such as: Men are protectors and maintainers of women; women must be devoutly obedient, if not then beat them...4:34; Women witness is half of men...2:282; Majority of women are in hell...( Shahih Bukhari 1.6.301); Menstruation is a disease...2:222; Women, house and horses are evil omens..( Shahih Bukhari;7.62.30); Sex with captive women and slave women is permitted-23:1-6; Allah gets displeased with the woman who does not respond when her husband demands sex from her-(Shahih Muslim 8.3367) These are just a few.
We must remember the Prophet is believed to have been a perfect man who led a perfect life and therefore an example that all Muslims must follow.
A good portion of this book was written in the mid nineties and updated after the events of 9/11. Since that time NO progress has been made in the advancement of equal rights for women despite all the apologists assertions that Islam is peaceful and equal regarding women. This makes any talks of reform by so called "moderate" Muslims disingenuous as well.
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Price of Honor
Difficult reading, but definitely worth the effort. A great deal of info about the subject on virtually every Middle Eastern country. Every woman in this country should know what is happening to women elsewhere.
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Fascinating and informative ( sugarplum10 )
I appreciate Ms. Goodwin's meticulous research, risking her own safety in order to present a picture of what is really going on in these countries, and it does help explain the alarming growth of Islamic extremism.
This book opens a window onto lives that people in the United States have always wondered about. Ms. Goodwin did an excellent job of interviewing men and women from all facets of society; poor, middle-class, and wealthy. It was a fascinating and informative read, and an essential book if one wishes to understand the daily life of women surviving under the iron fist of Islamic extremism.
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