This plea is not merely heartbreaking. It is theologically indicting.
Every religion that elevates a historical figure invites an obvious objection: you have imported the limitations of his century along with his wisdom.
Christianity is not immune to this on its surface. But the question is not which century your prophet came from. The question is whether the man you elevated transcended his century or merely inhabited it.
Jesus touched lepers in a world that quarantined them. He held public theology with women when the rabbinical tradition refused them. He stood inside Roman imperial power and refused every offer of it. He told his disciples that greatness looked like a servant and that the meek, not the militarily dominant, would inherit the earth. He did not import 1st century Rome. He confronted it at every structural point.
Muhammad worked within the gender architecture of 7th century Arabia. He occasionally softened it. He did not dismantle it, he codified it. Surah 33:59 does not emerge from divine aesthetics. It emerges from a situation where his men were harassing women in Medina’s streets, and the solution offered was not to discipline the men but to mark the women.
Distinguish your wives so we know which ones we can abuse.
That is the textual sociology behind the hijab. You can argue across fourteen centuries about jurisprudence and interpretation but you cannot erase the situation that produced the verse.
When a founding figure does not confront the power structures of his world but works within them, those power structures become sacred. The 7th century gender architecture does not stay in the 7th century. It travels forward dressed as revelation.
This is why the Taliban are not an aberration. They are the answer to a sincere question: what does serious, uncompromising application of the external enforcement paradigm look like when you remove the moderating pressure of Western political shame? Afghanistan is the answer. Those men are not distorting Islam. They are implementing it without apology.
Christianity is structurally different. Not because Christians are morally superior but because the architecture is different by design.
The compliance mechanism is inward. The law written on the heart, not enforced at the school gate. This means God chose that the most devout believer and the most flagrant sinner face each other in the same invisible courtroom, and He alone presides. He gave us the mandate to preach and persuade. He did not give us the authority to coerce. When men try to, they are not being more Christian. They are being less. The architecture resists them.
Islam’s architecture does not resist them. It licenses them. And men who want power will always find a religion that licenses them and call it devotion.
So that girl’s cry is a theodicy in one sentence. She is right. Whatever god demands this cannot be the creator of women.
The left refuses this conversation because it forces a choice between feminist commitments and the reflexive defence of Islamic exceptionalism. They will choose the latter, dress it in the language of anti-colonialism, and leave Afghan girls crying in the dark.
Christ is Lord, there's no rehabilitation for these fools, you can't do something as inhumane as torturing children and think there's a way back from it, the children need to be rescued and those fools transitioned.
Keep demanding the release of these children. Don’t be tired
Put their faces everywhere. Make it impossible for those in power to keep ignoring the nightmare these children are living through.
46 children being flogged every single day.
No one deserves to grow up like this.
@femmejola I totally understand, but I believe in rotating out of political leaders and the people having fresh names on the ballot every 2 election cycle to choose from, for example, Atiku shouldn’t be concerning himself with wanting the presidency.
I understand that bar absent periods of their principal, both the deputy gov and VP are often inactive but I think that once you’re elected to those position, you shouldn’t be able to contest for either gov or presidency again.
I need to report Maltina to @fccpcnigeria cos their plastic malt cover is sealed in a way that can be easily opened and fixed without breaking the seal. That's dangerous and presents an opportunity for untraceable mischief, especially for women and girls. @fccpcnigeria please 🙏