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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, besides inheritance one has to consider guardianship of minor children.  Needless to say, only men can be guardians.

So for the seven-eighths of the estate going to the children (assuming one is male; otherwise it would be less), why is it just in today's world to a woman who maybe has an MBA or a law degree that she cannot serve as guardian for these funds, and instead has to suffer some male guardian with perhaps less education and perhaps less than honorable intentions?

Sorry Sweetie, no educated woman in America would find this a good or just deal.
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Within the Muslim community and Islamic traditions, conservatives and Islamic feminists have used Islamic doctrine as the basis for discussion of women's rights, drawing on the Quran, the hadith, and the lives of prominent women in the early period of Muslim history as evidence.  Where conservatives have seen evidence that existing gender asymmetries are divinely ordained, feminists have seen more egalitarian ideals in early Islam. Still others have argued that this discourse is essentialist and historical, and have urged that Islamic doctrine not be the only framework within which discussion occurs.

In 1967, Iran adopted a set of progressive family laws, the Family Protection Act, which granted women more rights in the family; those rights were expanded in the Family Protection Law of 1975. Though the act was annulled in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution when Sharia law was re-introduced, the Family Protection Acts still stand out today for having been ahead of their time, particularly in a Muslim-majority country.

In September 1979, a modified version of the Family Protection Law's divorce provisions were introduced and adopted in Iran. The minimum age of marriage was moved from 9 to the onset of puberty. Child custody, no longer an inalienable right of fathers, is now up to the decision of Special Civil Courts. A 1992 law amended regulations on divorce, extending a wife’s access to divorce granting women more grounds for requesting a divorce.

In Islamic tradition, a women does not have to give her pre-marriage possessions to her husband and receives a dower which she then owns. Any earnings that a woman receives through employment or business, after marriage, is hers to keep and need not contribute towards family expenses. This is because, once the marriage is consummated, the financial responsibility for reasonable housing, food and other household expenses for the family, including the spouse, falls entirely on the husband. In traditional Islamic law, a woman is also not responsible for the upkeep of the home and may demand payment for any work she does in the domestic sphere.

I offer this information lest you forget Islami law is different from religion. The whole of the Muslim world does not live in Saudi Arabia. Muslims in the Middle East who are working to improve human rights and the laws they are governed by and  should be supported. Denouncing the religion they want to keep is counterproductive to resolving the terrorist threat they live with. A threat the kills far more Muslims than any other ethnic/religions group.
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