Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
A "Muslim" (can also be spelled/pronounced "Moslem") is a follower of the Islamic faith. A person cannot be an Islamic. "Islamic" is an adjective. You talk about Islamic culture, the Islamic calendar, Islamic scripture, etc. but you don't call people Islamics. That's bad grammar.


There is no one official Muslim policy on these things. Just like Christianity, there are lots of different sects and sub-sects, with their own interpretations of what the scripture means. This is especially true of what "jihad" is supposed to mean. There is a lot of debate on that issue going on, but (according to Wikipedia), "although some Islamic scholars have differered on the implementation of Jihad, there is consensus amongst them that the concept of jihad will always include armed struggle against persecution and oppression".

As for women, there is no way to doubt that the Qur'an considers them inferior to men, and that this belief is widely practiced throughout Islamic culture. It's really quite an abomination. Here is a thorough collection of the anti-woman verses in the Qur'an, if you're interested, but this one really says it all:

"And they (women) have rights similar to those (of men) over them in kindness, and men are a degree above them." â??Surah 2:228
all those verses on that website have been changed and are not correct as for the one above the correct one is men have a degree of RESPONSIBILITY above them. Men are told to be care takers and providers for their families and that is why is it said like that. Why dont you do alittle more ACCURATE research before you go around posting links to inaccurate sites.