While I'd agree that changing 'if she gives you lip, slap her out' to 'if she gives you lip, leave the room' is a positive change to have made, it is the one and only significant revision she made, is it not? Doesn't her version still afford men/fathers generally ultimate authority over the lives and decisions of their women/daughters?
I mean, this bit here:
Not in my view. I find Islam liberating! The question has to do with free will. As it is interpreted in the West, it means the freedom to do whatever you want to do when you want to do it. This is not free will, but pursuing our own desires. When we pursue our own desires, we are following our passions (as opposed to our reason). Our passions are known as “the animal soul” (nafs al-amarah). It contains two aspects: lust and anger—qualities we share with animals. If we choose the Western interpretation of “free will” and the pursuit of our own desires, we are following our animal soul, not reasoning with ourselves but following our instincts which have been programmed by God’s will. If we choose the Islamic interpretation of “free will,” we freely choose to follow God’s guidance and do what God enjoins us to do and prohibit what God asks us to prohibit.
does not sound to me like an empowered woman. In fact, it sounds to me like same-old same-old oppressive religious dogma. I mean, she literally redefines free will as obedience! She essentially states the freedom of women in the west to choose their own path/define their own future is just 'selfish angry sluts being selfish and angry sluts', and while that's certainly one of the options open to women in the west they absolutely don't have access too in Islamic countries, it's just one path in the almost infinitely forking road that comes with the freedom to choose for yourself, and the freedom to choose for yourself is free will. While it's the right of any woman to choose obedience and subservience should she truly prefer it, I know some women who actually enjoy living out their lives as 'slaves' to the man in their life, it's laughable if not ugly to suggest that obedience and subservience is free will itself, and a typical cop-out to suggest western female empowerment is just women being lusty, angry 'animals'.