I'm a grad student and I completely understand how a largely sedentary lifestyle plus lots of mental stress can leave you feeling out of sorts and unhappy with yourself. As a lot of the other commentators have said, exercise can be a huge help.

You mean the hundred lashes that can only be given if there are three eye witnesses in the room with you while you're fornicating? And that are given equally to men and women? I'm not sure where that curveball came from, but it doesn't have anything to do with your original point nor does it support your assertion…

I don't think you understand how translation works. Translating any language can be done in myriad ways, classical languages open the possibilities up even further.

I have read the Koran. In Arabic, which is my mother tongue and that is precisely why I know that there exist a variety of interpretations of the text. The Koran is written in poetic language in order to force you to think it through, to contemplate what is written, and to continuously grow in your understanding of…

Actually, there is a great deal of debate on her age at the time of their marriage. Many respected scholars believe that she was 19 not 9. There are no Koranic free passes for marriage to a child. And as a Muslim Jordanian woman, I think you have some (or, really, all) of your facts confused about life in Muslim…