4. “If God is male, then the male is God.”

“When God is pictured as male in a community that understands ‘man’ to have been created in God’s image, it only makes sense that maleness functions as the norm of Jewish humanity.”

-Plaskow 1991, 127.

There is a “repudiation of the patriarchal imaginary of God-the-Father” in the Qur’an. Therefore, it is “unconscionable to read Islam as a theological patriarchy” because it is unacceptable for men to represent their rule as replicating the model of divine patriarchy

-Barlas 2002, 94.