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[quote=Anonymous]Here's one circumstance, among many, where Islam is incredibly unfair to women.  That circumstance is the non-existence of concept of marital property.

In Islam, both spouses retain their assets and income and they do not become commingled by virtue of marriage. In case of divorce (to which men, not women, have a unilateral right), a husband owes his wife 3 months worth of maintenance. That's it. After that, she's on her own.  There is no alimony, no division of assets, nothing.  The children do remain a financial responsibility of the husband.

That means, theoretically, that a woman can marry, stay at home for thirty years to take care of a guy's house, bear his children, be a homemaker Islam expects her to be, and thirty years later (or whenever, really), her husband can divorce her and send her on her merry way with 3 months of maintenance, and no share of any assets the family has accumulated during marriage.  A case in India where a divorced, elderly Muslim woman wanted her ex husband to pay her a share of marital assets Indian law requires turned into massive protests by Muslims who did not want their marital law contradicted in any way. (Shah Bano).

If you are a woman who has to divorce, the Western law treats you way, way better. [/quote]

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