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Ah, so SHE was responsible for my low GPA!
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Does it matter how Muslim women today are treated in,say, Afghanistan, or any Muslim country where women are suppressed, that a Muslim woman founded a university 1000 years ago?
Muslim women world wide are denied entry in universities (not to mention being denied countless of other basic rights), you can't simply wash that away with saying "but a woman for under a Muslim university!", it sounds the same like "but I have a black friend!"
The point is not "Misogyny is Muslim countries now is okay, because Muslim women were once involved in higher education", the point is "The appeal of some Islamic misogynists to a tradition of educational misogyny is extremely dubious even from a very early point in Muslim history."
The appeal of Muslims to literally anything in the Quran is extremely dubious.
You don’t need to be Muslim to have a moral framework.
I mean that the appeal does not hold up even inside the philosophical framework of a 'traditional' Islamic society. Especially as the Quran does not forbid women's education.