Thanks for posting.

I want to respect cultural difference, but seriously, when their Prophet, their founder, their supposed direct connection with God, had several wives, including a child, I see patriarchy at the heart of their faith--a reduction of females to their bodily value to men, which means jealously preventing them from living according to the same sexual standards you apply to yourself and valuing them according to their youth instead of their soul and life experience. It's not some incidental cultural practice when their founder did it. He's essentially claiming that God sees women the way he saw them, which is inherently patriarchal.

Whether you believe there was a historical Jesus or not, the male privilege inherent in polygamy and child marriage is inherent in Islam's founder, whereas at least Jesus (not Paul) was pretty gender-neutral, and at most had one (adult) wife whom he respected. The collective texts and Roman/Eastern cult practices that informed early underground Christianity had an innate appeal to women, until Constantine et al got ahold of it.

I'm still glad Karamah is doing this work.

of the Muslim faith it will be the women who drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. It worked for me.

A retelling of Lysistrata in gangland Chicago.