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You?? The Equality Poster again???? Muslim women and Men are Equal, let me repeat again, we are Equal. I've said it again more than twice, maybe we need 20 more pages to get you to understand what Equality means . While men and women have equal rights  in Islam,  the specific rights and responsibilities granted to them are not identical, nobody ever said they were. Men and women have complementary rights and responsibilities.And don't you dare telling me you have the monopoly on what equality is :roll: Western equality you say??? Do I need to remind you that it is the very lack of equality in the WEST, of women's Rights that birthed the feminist movement? Just a few years ago , yeh years, not centuries, Women did not have the right to vote in the US. They got that right in 1920 after fighting tooth and nails, a right that was granted to Muslim women like 1400 years ago. Women in the West did not have the right to own property, only their husbands could  :roll: The women had to struggle, a lot in the West for acquiring these rights, which Islam had given to them centuries ago.  Oh and women still struggle for equal pay So don't tell me about western equality as the de facto notion of women's equality. Puh-Leezzzz
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It is quite true that Islam provided women *some* rights (like property ownership) that the West did not until recently. Actually, not all of the West, since independently wealthy women existed in the West for quite some time. It varied greatly by country: for instance, Spain and Aquitania protected female property rights since as early as the 12th century.

It is not true that the right to vote is Quranically prescribed for anyone, male or female.

It is also true that when women in the West fought for equal rights, they obtained rights far in excess of what Islam grants women.  Islam was a step in the right direction for its time.  But the world has moved on beyond that benchmark. We can appreciate it for what it did for its time, but it is incorrect to say nothing better exists. [/quote]

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