Greetings to all of you who say that women in Islam are not liberated, why don't you take a look at the statistics of the women who you think are liberated.... The more I read this, I thank Allah for being a Muslim woman, Alhumde'lilah(Thanks to Allah for the most precious, gracious, &cherishable gift of Islam.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Findings by the U.S. Surgeon General C. Everette Koop revealed that domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between ages 15 to 44, more common than automobile accidents, muggings and rapes combined.
Official estimates of domestic violence rely largely on FBI, police, and emergency room medical reports. Although many women also report domestic violence to friends, family, relatives, churches, synagogues, physicians, and nurses, these sources of information are not included in national crime surveys. In addition, most reports do not show the number of violent incidents experienced by individual battered women and their children. Hence, statistics do not accurately reflect the amount of violence experienced in intimate relationships and in the home.
However, what the statistics do reveal about domestic violence is alarming. For example:
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There are at least 4 million reported incidents of domestic violence against women every year. Almost 20 percent of these are aggravated assaults in the home. (Angela Brown, Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, December 1990.)
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In 1991, more then 90 women were murdered every week. Nine out of ten were murdered by men. (Senate Judiciary Committee Report, "Violence Against Women: A Week In the Life of America," October 1992.)
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Weapons are used in 30 percent of domestic violence incidents. (P. Claus & M. Ranel, "Special Report: Family Violence," Bureau of Justice Statistics, undated)
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15 to 25 percent of pregnant women are battered. (Evan Stark & Anne Flitcraft, 1992.)
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In 95 percent of all domestic violence assaults, crimes are committed by men against women. ("Report to the Nation on Crime and Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics," 1983.)
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22 to 35 percent of women who visit emergency rooms are there for injuries related to on-going abuse. (Journal of American Medical Association, 1990.)
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Medical expenses from domestic violence total at least $3 to $5 billion annually. Businesses forfeit another $100 million in lost wages, sick leave, absenteeism and non-productivity. ("Domestic Violence For Health Care Providers," 3rd Edition, Colorado Domestic Violence Coalition, 1991.)
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Abusive husbands and lovers harass 74 percent of employed battered women at work, either in person or over the telephone (Caroline Wolf Harlow, "Female Victims of Crime" Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1991), causing 20 percent to lose their jobs (Schecter & Gray, "A Framework for Understanding and Empowering Battered Women," 1998.)
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As violence against women becomes more severe and more frequent in the home, children experience a 300 percent increase in physical violence by the male batterer. (M. Strauss and R. Gelles, "Physical Violence in American Families," 1990.)
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Approximately 1 out of every 25 elderly persons are victimized annually (Candace Heisler, "Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect" 1991). Of those who experience domestic elder abuse, 37 percent are neglected and 26 percent are physically abused. Of those who perpetrate domestic elder abuse, 30 percent are the adult children of an abused person. ( National Aging Resource Center on Elder Abuse, 1990.)
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In 1991, only 17 states kept data on reported domestic violence offenses. These reports were limited to murder, rape, robbery, and serious bodily injury and no other form of domestic violence. (Senate Judiciary Committee Report, October 1992.)
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Injuries that battered women receive are at least as serious as injuries suffered in 90 percent of violent felony crimes, yet under state laws, they are almost always classified as misdemeanors. (Joan Zorza, "The Gender Bias Committee's Domestic Violence Study," 1989.)
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In nearly 31 of the states, under many circumstances, it is legal for a husband to rape his wife (National Clearinghouse on marital and Date Rape, 1993). In one study, 37 percent of the women who had been physically battered by their husbands were also raped by the husbands. (Diane E. Russell, "Rape in Marriage," Revised ED., 1990.)
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Women are 10 times more likely then men to be victims of violent crime in intimate relationships. (U.S. Dept. of Justice, "Violence Against Women," January 1994.)
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Until recently, few states collected enough information to indicate how many crimes reported to the police were committed against women and how many were committed against men. Crimes reported as aggravated assault by husband against wife were not distinguished from crimes reported as aggravated assault by an unknown assailant. (Domestic Crimes in the U.S. Survey, Senate Judiciary Committee, 1991.)
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Although more than one million women seek medical treatment each year for injuries caused by their husbands, ex-husbands, or boyfriends, doctors correctly identify the injuries as resulting from battering only 4 percent of the time. (E. Stark & A. Flitcraft, "Medical Therapy as Repression: The Case of the Battered Woman," 1982.)
Source: "Research & Statistics On Domestic Violence," National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
2 hours ago maybe you forgot to give the statistics of U.K
i will give:
UNITED KINGDOM
Violence against women causes more deaths and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer malaria, traffic accidents or war.
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The British Crime Survey reported in 1996 that domestic violence accounted for one quarter of all the violent crimes reported in the survey.
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Domestic violence accounted for the largest increase in violent crime since 1981.
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In 1996, the British Medical Association stated that one in four women experience domestic violence at some stage during their lives. This was unchanged in 1998.
Between 1996 and 1997 the number of women reporting rape increased by over 500%. Yet convictions remained almost static, meaning that whilst in 1977, 1 in 3 women reporting rape saw their rapists convicted, in 1996 less than 1 in 10 did.
This gives rise to a lack of confidence, reflected in the failure of women to report abuse: on average, a woman will suffer serious abuse and assault around 35 times before she reports it to the police.
In 1998, it was estimated that between one in eight and one in ten women had experienced domestic violence in the past year.
In 1999, Women鈥檚 Aid took 20,000 calls on its help-line
Every week, two women are killed by their current or former partners.
A National Children鈥檚 Homes (NCH) study found 75% of mothers said their children had witnessed domestic violence, 33% had seen their mothers beaten up, 10% had witnessed sexual violence.
Child Line found that 38% of a sample of 116 children who talked about domestic violence also talked about themselves or their siblings being physically abused.
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1 in 2 boys and 1 in 3 girls thought that there were some circumstances when it was acceptable to hit a woman or force her to have sex.
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Over a third of the boys (36%) thought that they might personally force a woman to have sex.
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30% had suffered physical violence "more severe" than being grabbed, pushed or shaken from a current or former partner or boyfriend at some time during their adult lives.
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27% had been injured (i.e. about 90% of those who had been attacked)
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27% had been threatened with violence
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23% had been raped
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37% had suffered some form of mental cruelty
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12% had suffered physical violence during the previous twelve months and 30% of these women had experienced six or more attacks during this time.
The cost of domestic violence to health and social services in the UK is estimated to be over 拢1billion per year. In 1997-8, an estimated 19,910 women and 28,520 children stayed in refuges in England.
In a survey in Islington in 1993, 63% of men said they would be violent towards their female partners in certain circumstances. 19% said they had been violent in the past twelve months.
Source at the http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolen...
It is estimated that only 1 among 10 cases of domestic violence is reported. And which fool will deny that alcohol is not a contributing factor? The above statistics show that violence against women is a wide social problem. Americans, Canadians and British in the above statistics are not reading the Quran and being influenced by it as Mr Sina is suggesting Muslims are! Compared to hundreds of years ago, yes. Compared to the majority of women living in Asia, South America and Africa, yes. Stop using statistics without a comparison. Let's see the statistics for Middle Eastern nations too. oooooooooooo bottom contributor is right of course it looks bad compared to nothing. thats nothing compared to the number of people (not just women) that die or are beaten at the hands of the men in your country ...muslim women are less liberated than american women... well that is just well dumb....i dont see any american/european/south american canadian etc... that are demanded to walk around covered from head to toe with just their eyes showing
the only reason you can feel the slightest way like youre liberated is
1.the dum-*** liberals who care more about meaningless religions than christianity
2.because you are an immigrant on american soil and we dont do crap like that here
3. thanks to our soldiers that are risking their butts over in your country to give you freedom
---and dont get me started on this allah you worship I used to feel that women of Islam faith were repressed, and must be so unhappy with the way they must live. I then took some university courses about religions and Islam, was invited to a mosque, made Muslim friends, and realized that you of course are not. You are happy to be following your traditions and it is your choice to do so. I have since then become much less ignorant towards the rest of the world thank God, I appreciate people's differences, and wish nothing but peace to the world.
In regards to your question, very few of us western women are truly liberated. Sure we have freedom of choice, speech, etc...but the propaganda we are fed from school, society, media, family, etc...is actually causing us to be more narrow minded and hateful than the rest of the world. The only women here truly liberated are the ones who choose to learn, learn, learn, and educate other girls, and hope all women everywhere will do the same. Statistics such as the one's you have shown are sure to be true, however are just numbers. Anyone who wants can show you statistics stating otherwise I am sure. What matters is knowledge and the way you feel and present yourself to the world around you, live peacefully and be patient with others, we are all one but all very different. I thank GOD I live in a country that cares about it's citizens enough to keep track of statistics and recognizes violence against women as a PROBLEM - therefore, working on a solution. At least we CARE about our women enough to notice these things and try to do something about it.
Bless you for feeling secure and proud in your culture and religion. Be happy you believe what you do and you live in a nice, loving family. Don't use statistics to make yourself feel better about your religion. That's just dirty pool. America has many problems, but it is a wonderful country and I'm really happy I live here. Isn't it wonderful we can openly express the problems in America without fear of retribution? Try doing that in other countries and we'll see if we can find you in the next week. Sorry you were boring me to death so haven't read the full thing however I read enough to see that it is talking about all women. How did you manage to make up that muslim women are not included in these statistics which of course they are. Muslim women experience as much domestic violence as any other women. I am not a muslim women and have never experienced violence of any kind domestic or otherwise. well if you look at that alone, sure, it looks bad. but consider the fact that women are murdered every day in the name of "honor" in that culture and nobody thinks a thing of it. i wonder what the real statistics would say, item for item, in an honest and fair accounting. sounds like someone is out to make herself feel better by looking at one sided arguments. my husband beat me once and i tossed him out. i'd call that freedom! i own my home. i wear what i want. i own my own car. i have custody of my four sons. i pay my bills. i am studying psychology in the college of my choice. i vote for those i feel are representing my views, not who i'm told to vote for. i go where i want, do what i want, say what i want and nobody tells me what i can and cannot do other than the law of our land. yeah, i'd call that liberated, free and damn happy!
******edited to add this disturbing little news brief:
Mentally Retarded Women Used As Bombers
Iraqi Official: 2 Women With Down Syndrome Used In Deadly Strike In Baghdad; At Least 73 Dead
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/0...
a news article presented by cbs news online.
at least our families would never dream of offering us up as weapons against our own people, believing us to be less worthy of life. pretty sick mentality if you ask me. using helpless people, with childlike mentalities to bomb your own kind. explain how that follows the teachings of the koran, i dare you. True enough, we have some horrible statistics, but at the risk of sounding ignorant, what would happen if we applied those same statistical equations to you're culture? No insult intended, but I believe that would be an interesting point to ponder. BEST ANSWER....YEA WELL OUR LIBERATED WOMEN DON'T HAVE TO FEAR GETTING THERE HEAD CUT OFF FOR TELLING THE POLICE THEY HAD THERE TAIL BEAT BY THERE HUSBANDS LIKE MUSLIM WOMEN DO,,,OH AND THEY CAN SHOW THERE BEAUTIFUL BODIES IN PUBLIC....AND CAN DRIVE CARS.....CAN VOTE....THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT AND DON'T HAVE TO AS THE MAN OF THE HOUSE FOR PERMISSION TO DO ANYTHING...I HAVE LIVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST I HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE I LOVE IT THERE BUT I FEEL SORRY FOR THE MUSLIM WOMEN WHO ARE HELD DOWN TO A LOW STANDARD OF LIFE. |
