Women’s Empowerment [Islam vs. The West]
Muslim Objection: Wow, what a splendid "freedom." Finally, the woman has broken free from centuries of captivity. Now she is truly "empowered," so empowered that she has even liberated herself from the shackles of clothing.
Our Response: It’s astonishing with what audacity Muslims criticize the West. The reason is that this Western woman, even in short clothes, is not as naked as the slave women were made by the Allah of the Muslims—where their right to the hijab was stripped away, and their chests were made naked in public.
For years, this question has been posed to Muslims, but it must be said with regret that, displaying extreme shamelessness, they vanish every time instead of providing an answer.
The West has truly empowered women. Yes, if a woman in the West rejects the shackles of the burqa and wears short clothes, it is her own choice. No one is forcing her, as in Islam, where slave women were compelled to appear in public half naked. And the next empowerment the West has given women is that, despite wearing short clothes, no man can touch her—not even with a finger—without her consent.
But touching aside, Islam established a religious law where slave women were brought to auction markets with bare chests, where lustful Muslim male customers would grope and inspect the delicate body parts of these helpless, powerless slave girls without their consent.
Similarly, touching aside, in Islam, masters would even rape these slave women without their consent. Is it shamelessness for a woman to wear short clothes, or is it shamelessness that a woman to be raped against her will? Actually, Islam allows a slave woman to be raped by different men in a “TEMPORARY” sexual relationships, akin to the Shia practice of "temporary" marriage (mut'ah). When the master grew bored of raping her, he would hand her over to his brother or slave. And when all the brothers and slaves had fulfilled their lust one by one, the slave woman would be sold to a new master, who, after fulfilling his sexual desires, would sell her to a third.
And furthermore, if a master lusted after his slave’s wife, he could separate her from her husband and rape her himself. And after fulfilling his lust, he could return her to her slave husband.
In the same way, two masters, by mutual agreement, could swap their slave women (for the change of taste) and rape them without their consent.
This is the reality of Islam’s modesty and shame.
Hassan Radwan