Western media, fashion magazines and beauty contests out forward the image of an ideal woman which deeply contrasts with the ideal Muslim Woman.
Muslim women are often portrait in these same media as oppressed and submissive. However; there is a growing movement within women of European Muslim communities that defend that the true oppression comes from the ideal imposed by western values.
Western media, fashion magazines and beauty contests out forward the image of an ideal woman which deeply contrasts with the ideal Muslim Woman. Muslim women are often portrait in these same media as oppressed and submissive.
However, there is a growing movement within women of European Muslim communities that defend that the true oppression comes from the ideal imposed by western values that focus only on the external image of women.
Also there has been a rise in academic interest in the relationship between Islam and the idea of femininity with many research books being published about this topic. However, this notion of femininity is substantially different from western feminism.
Here, femininity or Islamic feminism is based on principles of equality and respect towards women drawn from the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet.
In this edition of the show we ask the following question: What is the ideal image of women in the eyes of Islam?
