They say the XXI century will become the historical reference for women’s rights claims. It is obvious that Muslim women are not immune to this change, joining the full commitment of resistance to gender inequities.
In the 70′s are beginning to produce the turn of feminist consciousness through immanent readings of speeches so far and developed by a critique of systems of power promoted by the “traditional feminism.” Universalist and totalizing vision of the concept of “woman” did not address those other peripheral women who did not feel identified with the principles upheld.
The ideological assumptions that European secular feminism maintains assume that Islam is the cause of the oppression of women, so the only way to salvation female will abandon their faith.
From a Eurocentric view, remains the universalization of the concept feminist reading of which way is secularization. Postures colonial past, proclaims itself as the model for values of equality advanced and, therefore, reference to follow.
In this context, Islamic Feminism emerges as the movement that claims the possibility of equality between women and men in the context of Islam, in an attempt to validate and recognize the possibility of achieving full gender equality from the essence coranic .
As rational beings, we have the absolute ability to make decisions that affect our lives, without paternalistic criteria that direct our actions.
Several decades have passed and Muslim women we have become a benchmark of struggle and change in our own societies and communities. Our status as Muslims denounce the patriarchy as a system of oppression of one part of humanity on the other. Clearly, in the name of Islam are committing all kinds of injustice on women and it is our duty and right to proclaim what we consider fair.
We demand the recovery of Koranic ethics to eliminate all forms of gender discrimination. Thus, we maintain that any form of violence against women is a violation of the precepts of Islam, a distortion of sacred texts and a degradation of the original sources.
We claim the mantle of political authorities, intellectuals and religious leaders to combat all forms of injustice against women, without forgetting our framework. Islamic ethics contains the tools to combat gender violence, and from there from where we maintain a strong commitment to proclaim our legitimate right to develop psychologically, socially and spiritually http://www.feminismeislamic.org
