Challenging Religious & Patriarchal Structures | Sherin Khankan | TEDxLausanneWomen

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Challenging Religious & Patriarchal Structures | Sherin Khankan | TEDxLausanneWomen


Sherin speaks as she’s a female Imam and shares the stories left untold about psychological violence and religious control, and how to break the circle of shame, loneliness and abuse. She will shed light on how she is conquering what was once set in stone and re-writing history by challenging patriarchal structures.

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  1. This is where feminism has put you, from refusing to obey One loving, protect and caring husband to bowing down for thousands of men who even don't know you.
    The fact that you started quoting ibn arabi and your father and not quoting a woman , shows how patriarchy was the only way of life. don't corrupt the mindset of our little muslims and traditional girls.

  2. This woman called me a teorist for challaensing her belifes, a relegion that can stand no critic and will awnser like this and is not open to everyone is a relegion of no use for the world, sorry for the misunderstanding ❤

  3. Well, I guess this is progress of a sort, injecting the 21st century into the 9th, but I don't think we need to hold on to the ideas of the 9th or even earlier centuries. We invented the gods. We can do better.

  4. So, are you trying to show different faces of Islam for women who can show their hair, speak to men and women, they do not know, in public speeches, and women who could become “Imams,” not in Muslim countries, but, in Non-Islamic countries?
    Why are you, as an intelligent woman, seeking equality with men in a religion that has held you hostage, denied you any rights and at its best has considered you as second degree citizen?
    Do you not see how women are treated in Islamic countries such as Iran, who are being murdered for their hair showing? They are being compared to animals, mainly a donkey?
    Why are you desperately seeking equality and creating a cult within a religion that never recognizes you as human being comparing to a man?
    You, women, are equal to men, perhaps more intelligent than men, as you, women, have the capacity to bring about lasting peace in the world when you, women, yourselves, recognize your power to do so.
    As a man, I believe in equality of men and women.
    This is what my religion has thought me. A religion that believes in science, logic, proofs, evidences, education for all, elimination of all prejudices, a religion that God has gifted again to this world based on our needs of our current world and way of life. So, we do not have to live our lives based on a thousand, two thousands, ten thousand years beliefs that have expired and we we do not have to desperately trying to hang on to straws to justify that our antiquated belief systems work in our modern world,
    We just have to open our eyes, remove all prejudices from our minds and hearts, and “independently” dare to travel into the fields of “investigating” “The Truth.”
    You, too, will find it, as I did.
    🌹🙏🏿

  5. this is part of how they control us…keep us divided from each other so we can't compare notes. What Sherin did was form consciousness raising groups in the good old 2nd Wave tradition. YAY girlfriend!

  6. There are fundamentally different psychological and biological drives between men and women. Women are not less than men, but we both fulfill different roles. Love, affection, and lust are different in men and women. “Wokism” and postmodernism tries to convince us that there’s no objective truth or reality and seeks to tear down everything sacred and foundational. There IS objective truth, and there ARE fundamental differences between men and women; though, once again, this does not mean women have less value than men. Women are integral to society and culture, but fulfill a different role than men

  7. Congratulations, you are now officially out of the fold of islam.
    You are no longer a muslim so you can do what ever you want except trying to change islam.

  8. Take your whole gender. Form a huge alliance with it. Build roads, sewers, railroads, subways, internet lines, electric lines, plumbing, foundations, houses, skyscrapers, and even ancient monolithic structures… Then let me know when you gals are done with all that. Us men will all sit by the fire and tell stories about the "matriarchy".

    Stop spreading this nonsense. Women need men as much as men need women. And no.. I'm not the one here "keeping you down". No one is keeping you women down except yourselves.

  9. Every religion is subjective. Men have dominated the interpretation of the Islamic Holy scripture and hence they have rigged the messages of Islam. Women’s interpretation of Islamic texts is needed so that true balance is achieved in the religion’s messages.
    Islam is not unique in perpetuating misogyny. Every other religion does this. Hint: it’s male subjectiveness that ruins religions, not the text itself.

  10. I don't know what religion she's on but it's not Islam. Anyone with a tiny bit of Islamic knowledge knows error when they see it. If she wants to dream and change things and walk in her own cloud of westernized lovey-dovey fantasy, by all means. But Islam was complete 14 centuries ago and whoever seeks to add anything to it, it'll be rejected from them

  11. Funny that muslim men can marry whoever they want from any other religion but not muslim women!
    Patriarchal, exclusive, politicised religion became: it's men and how they can twist anything to their advantage🥴

  12. 1. Muslim women cannot marry a non muslims because the child of that marriage will be on the religion of the father, which would end up making the kid a non-muslim.

    2. Muslim Women cannot get divorce in islam because divorce in islam is taken very serious. Even if the words of divorce are said out of anger or by mistake, the divorce would happen. Women are often more emotional than men (Proven by science) and it is possible that women say words of divorce (even mistakenly) over small things. There are many researches done that proves that women initiate divorce more often than men. Marriage is considered a very great blessing in islam.

    3. Even though a muslim women cannot ask her husband for divorce she can still get one by going to the local imaam/scholor and telling him why she wants to get separated in her marriage (abuse, her rights not being fulfilled, etc).

    4. Polygamy is not for everyone. A muslim man can only marry another women if his wife agrees and the man can treat both women equally (love, money, etc) and fulfill both of their rights. We see men who are married going out with other women and for some reason that is ok, but getting married to 2 women and treating both of them with respect and honour is not allowed. What a world we live in.

    5. If a women is being abused by her husband, she can go to the imaam and the imaam will try to work it out between the two. If she doesn't feel safe then the imaam will break the marriage.

    Just a simple bit of research will show you that this women is trying to show islam as a religion that is against women rights. Islam shows women more honour and respect than any religion and if you were to look at the life of the prophet muhammed (peace be upon him), you would see that the value of women, especially Mothers are insane.

    Fun Fact: Before islam, women were treated like dirt and girls would be buried alive by the arabs. Islam came and stopped that and gave the women rights and honour.

  13. Hvor er det skønt at se en kvindelig Imam og hvor jeg dog støtter op om mange af De ting ,Du står og siger..Kan ikke forstå nogen kvinder vil lade sig underkue af en mand eller en religion ,Tænk hvis denne religion blev praktiseret modsat for os Mænd,at I Kvinder skulle udpege en Kvinde som vi bare havde at gifte os med og oveni forblive sammen med..Det kan man jo slet ikke forestille Sig…Så stort- Det Du gør og bliv endelig ved og så DU utrolig smuk …
    Gode Hilsner Herfra ihvertfald..fra en som søger en smule indsigt i hvad Islam egentlig er og står for..