Thread by @MoTheAtheist

How to be an #IntersectionalFeminist by following the example of Muhammed the (1st) feminist! h/t @muslimgirl
1. Reduce women to vehicles for breeding, comparing them to a 'place of cultivation' (Quran 2:223)
muslimgirl.com/46965/ramadan-… /1

2. Celebrate that same view of women as merely defined by the role of motherhood NOT as individual women regardless of their reproductive choices as something to be lauded /2

3. Try very hard to ignore that in the pre-Islamic period many cultures gave women a variety of rights including mothers & unmarried daughters equal rights of inheritance with married daughters treated unequally (half that) /3

4. Make the Sassanian laws that deprived women based on marital status universal - ALL women get 1/2 that of men and claim that as a great victory for women. /4

5. Celebrate the great emancipatory effect of Mohammed's feminism, the political roles afforded women including the 1st Caliph Aisha, 2nd Caliph Hafsa, and so on... /5 (For those not following closely no, the caliphs were actually men)

6. Celebrate the 'vote' granted to women wherein voting didn't exist to begin with. How could one be a greater feminist then to grant women a right that they didn't even know or were able to exercise for another 1400 years? /6

7. He couldn't merely focus on male vs female rights, that is why in the Quran where he grants men the right to beat his wife (Q4:34) he grants women that right too (hint: he doesn't) - particularly accounting for size/muscle mass disparity between them.

8. That incidentally is also why when he said women would be 'cursed for saying no' to sex when their husband was horny it couldn't possibly have any implication regarding marital rape.

9. Of course as a feminist that believed in equality, his condemnation of women saying no to their husbands was ALSO followed by condemnation of men saying no to their wives! (No, it didn't)

10. Remember his intersectionality since he was first held by a black woman, but please please do not dwell on the insignificant fact that she was a SLAVE, owned by Mohammed's father & grandfather, heck it was so insignificant that it shouldn't even be mentioned!

11. Of course that alone wouldn't be bizarre enough, his parental slave MUST have influenced (citation needed?) him to adopt a slave Zaid and marry him to Zaynab bint Jahsh! But that's not all ...

12. Through the MAGIC of Muhammed's intersectional feminism and the influence of his black family slave , his son/former slave Zaid bin Harith became BLACK even though Zaid's family / ancestors were Arab!

13. Could it be that the author at @muslimgirl was malicious and deliberately dishonest, or is it more probable that she was merely ignorant and thought that slave and black were synonymous?

14. But wait, it gets even better!! Zaid the black (formerly Arab) slave divorced Zaynab! Why you may wonder? It turns out 'Mohammed the feminist' walked into her house, saw her naked & was overcome with lust. What else could a poor son do but divorce his wife for his dad's cock?

15. Now of course this black/former arab Zayd's marriage to Zaynab, divorce and Zaynab's marriage to Mohammed, adding to his harem of dozen odd wives and sex slaves has to be a means of promoting feminism, what else could it be?

16. Of course Mohammed's interracial / intersectional feminism is even more irrefutable when we examine the diversity of his wives (all Arab). His sex slaves were also diverse and even included his favorite Maria Qibtiyah, the white skinned Egyptian Copt 'gifted' to him!

Mohammed can be considered nothing if not a model to follow today. Men, women, #feminists & allies learn from this wonderful 7th century warlord if you want a 'better world'......

I'll leave you with @muslimgirl's irrefutable and eloquent conclusion!

PS Looking forward to the follow-up article which will explore how marrying a 6 year old, having sex with her at 9, raping prisoners of war & pulling the more liberated Medinan women down to the more misogynist Meccan level was revolutionary,proving his credentials as a feminist!