{"id":78112,"date":"2013-03-20T23:56:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T23:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=78112"},"modified":"2013-03-20T23:56:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T23:56:16","slug":"where-are-the-healthy-gender-relations-in-the-muslim-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/where-are-the-healthy-gender-relations-in-the-muslim-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are The Healthy Gender Relations In The Muslim Community?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have failed in engendering healthy gender relations in our community.\u00a0Face it.\u00a0I travel throughout the United States, and I see troubling signs of Muslim women unable to get married, primarily because Muslim men have abdicated their social responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Muslim men can marry non-Muslims\u2013 so they oblige \u2014 and Muslim women are stuck.\u00a0 There are usually few young men around in Muslim community events.\u00a0You attend any Muslim gathering and find young Muslim women outnumbering young Muslim men usually by a 3:1 ratio.\u00a0 The young men are non-existent, coping with their own psychosis passed down from our community in their dysfunctional practices.\u00a0Nothing wrong in integrating within the larger society, as long as it\u2019s not at the expense of fleeing your own community.<\/p>\n<p>read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2013\/01\/where-are-the-healthy-gender-relations-in-the-muslim-community\/\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":78113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where Are The Healthy Gender Relations In The Muslim Community? 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