| While the battle between dictators and democracy, | | | | society and the church and most of all as equals to |
| modernism and barbarity, the present and the past | | | | men. Check it out. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, |
| rages who among us is listening to the voices of | | | | there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor |
| women? Half the population of the world are women | | | | female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians |
| and now many of them are being heard on Islam as | | | | 3:28 |
| never before. Isn't it about time? | | | | If the rapture of the church (instant removal of |
| One of the most powerful voices among women | | | | Christians from the earth) were to occur today there |
| heard today is that of Syrian native Wafa Sultan. The | | | | would be more motherless children and bereaved |
| Middle East Research Institute produced a video clip of | | | | husbands in America than imaginable. If the rapture |
| Wafa commenting on women and Islam in February | | | | happened on a Sunday morning, millions of husbands |
| that has been viewed by over a million people so far. It | | | | would have seen all the games fallen asleep and |
| was taken from an interview on the Islamic news | | | | would not know until the late evening when they got |
| organization Al-Jazeera. | | | | hungry that their wives were missing. |
| Ms. Sultan who describes herself as a "secular | | | | There is little doubt that the greatest prayer warriors |
| ex-Muslim" is most noted for her lively and vociferous | | | | and most faithful supporters of the church are and |
| effort to show the world that radical Islam is "a clash | | | | have always been women. It is also true that |
| between "civilization and backwardness" She is a | | | | American women have been targeted by the media |
| force to be reckoned with and although she clings | | | | to sell out to the fame and fortune lifestyle by selling |
| close to her secular leanings she is more than just | | | | their attractiveness and their sexuality. It makes many |
| another voice of moderation. In fact all Christian | | | | of us cringe to see women flaunting themselves on |
| women could learn a lot from her about taking a stand | | | | TV and media but that is only one extreme. It is equally |
| instead of cringing behind the dreaded invisible wall of | | | | abhorrent to see them reduced to something a little |
| political correctness. | | | | higher than cattle under Islamic religious tyranny. |
| Ms. Sultan has endured a barrage of death threats on | | | | I once tried to reason with a dear friend about the |
| her life which places her in the category of one of the | | | | Catholic practice of praying to Mary rather than the |
| bravest women of the decade. She also is by her | | | | scriptural admonition to go directly to God through |
| stand against the Muslim mistreatment of women | | | | Jesus Christ. Neither he nor I have since changed our |
| sounding a clarion call to other women to speak up | | | | views about the subject but I will never forget his |
| about the Islamic tyranny women face around the | | | | reasoning about it. He said "If you really wanted to get |
| world today. | | | | someone to do something for you, don't you think |
| It is well known that to the Islamic mind a woman is | | | | you'd have a better chance of getting it done by going |
| little more than a mindless, soul-less object to be used | | | | through his mother. What person wouldn't listen to his |
| by Muslim men at their whim and fancy. If left to itself | | | | mother?" |
| as in Afghanistan under the Taliban, Islamic treatment | | | | I still pray through Jesus only but my friends words still |
| of women denies them education, common rights and | | | | ring in my head. Applying his reasoning to the Islamic |
| requires them to live out their lives in a potato sack | | | | treatment of women could have a great bearing on |
| (berka) with holes punched out so they can see. Other | | | | the outcome of it all. I'm not talking about prayers to |
| Islamic countries are not very far above the Taliban's | | | | Mary but rather the voices of mothers as it regards |
| view of womanhood. | | | | Islamist suppression of women. |
| No document in the world has done more to elevate | | | | America and much of the world would listen to the |
| the status of women than the Bible and specifically the | | | | voices of mothers and women of any kind if they |
| New Testament. Jesus and the apostles saw women | | | | speak out against the mistreatment of their gender. I |
| as prophetesses, beloved mothers, pillars of both | | | | would listen, would you? |