Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "TED" channel.

  1. Lovely speech, but Malala's father is wrong about patriarchal societies. It is ISLAMIC societies that codify inequality for women for all time, and this is what Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan follow!!! It is written in The Qur'an, and seen in the role-modelling of Prophet Muhammed, who is deemed to be 'the perfect man'. Patriarchal societies are evolving, but Islamic societies can never evolve unless they reject some of Allah's guidance in The Qur'an and deny that their Prophet is the perfect moral guide. Under Islam we will continue to see Muslim girls honour-killed ("Men are in charge of women" - Qur'an 4:34), beaten if they don't obey their husbands ("As to those women on whose part you fear disloyalty and ill-conduct... beat them" - Qur'an 4:34), have their genitals mutilated because Muhammed deemed it honourable (the four main Sunni law schools, Shafai’i, Hanbali, Maliki and Hanafi, recommended FGM on religious grounds though it is not yet practised in Pakistan), and equal rights denied to women under Islamic law/sharia ("And if there are not two men [available], then a man and two women from those whom you accept as witnesses, so that if one of the women errs, then the other can remind her" - Qur'an 2:282; "Allah instructs you concerning your children: for the male, what is equal to the share of two females" - Qur'an 4:11). I hope Malala wakes up soon. Islam is not compatible with the liberal human rights that the majority of the world now follows. Thankfully Muslims in the west can choose to follow their own inner moral guidance instead of Islamic law, though they may be deemed hypocrites and no longer 'pure' Muslims.
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