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WALLACE TOM Jr. (2015) Refuting Islam, The Christian Patriots Guide to Exposing the Evils of Islam, Bellingham, Fundamental Publishers.
Chapter Seven: Borrow Credibility
Mr. Wallace writes that 'Islam is designed to keep the adherent ignorant.' (57). The author then further reasons that people of knowledge ask too many questions. (57). He opines that 80% of Muslims cannot understand the language of the Qur'an. (57). Most who follow Islam cannot read or write Arabic. Mr. Wallace explains that many Muslims parrot sounds heard in Arabic without knowing the actual meaning. (57).
Further, in many Islamic nations, females and women are not allowed to read and write. (57). The educated woman is a threat to 'an oppressive father or husband.' (57). Rather, ignorance is favoured as this means the female and woman will have a lifelong dependence on the Islamic system in power. (57).
I can agree with Mr. Wallace, that at least many orthodox forms of Islam in the world, because they follow a religion/state model through assumed divine sanction, provide power to male religious and government leaders. This power remains significantly unchallenged politically, as the Islam/state model is assumed the correct divine model, and religiously, for the same reason.
An educated female and woman, not only offers a potential critique, politically, religiously, socially and other that is not of the assumed divine paradigm, but also by ontological nature, as the opposite sex, also offers potential views and critiques that will significantly differ from those males in power.
I am certainly not on my websites promoting feminism or chauvinism, or any type of religious worldview which I reason should be free from intellectual critique. However, the beginning of the Hebrew Scripture with Genesis 1: 26-27 documents that ontologically (existence, nature) male and female are both made in the image and likeness of God. Therefore, although equality does not equal sameness, the view of females and women should be acknowledged like males and men as being fully human and a significant aspect of political and religious life and existence.
Genesis 1:26-27 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the [a]sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
