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Dowry is her right because she's unable to work to support herself. Allow women financial indepence and you not only eliminate the need for dowry, you eliminate arguments like the one PP just made, that divorce is harder for a woman because the man has invested in her dowry.[/quote]
What makes you think she's unable to work to support herself?? You know women in Muslim-majority countries work, right? The purpose of the dowry is not to make her financially independent.  It's to demonstrate that the man has serious intentions. [/quote]

2:26 said the wife "may not be able to work" or earn equal wages." If 2:26 is the same midnight poster who's been here all along, s/he's emphasized repeatedly that men and women have very different but equal roles. S/he's articulated several times her argument that that inheritance, and now divorce, rules are not "linearly equal" (which is a vague and poor use of English IMO) precisely because the man bears all the financial responsibility.

I realize 2:26/the OP of those other threads doesn't speak for all Islam. But dowries (whoever pays them), together with other so-called "linearly unequal" financial laws like inheritance and her testimony being worth 1/2 that of the man's in financial cases, IMO feed into a view where these "different but equal roles" are based on a presumption that the man bears all the financial burden.

Just putting dowries on the same context.[/quote]

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