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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]
I don't respond to Pete but for Allah's sake  :lol: since you don't trust all the "obscure" Muslim sources  :shock: Here's PBS for you :
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[b]The Quran explicitly states that men and women are equal [/b]in the eyes of God. Furthermore, the Quran:

forbids female infanticide (practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia and other parts of the world)
instructs Muslims to educate daughters as well as sons
insists that women have the right to refuse a prospective husband
[b]gives women rights if they are divorced by their husband
gives women the right to divorce in certain cases[/b]
gives women the right to own and inherit property (though in Sunni Islam they get only half of what men inherit. Men are expected to care for their mothers and any unmarried female relatives, and would, it is reasoned, need greater resources for this purpose.)
While polygyny is permissible, it is discouraged and on the whole practiced less frequently than imagined by Westerners. It is more frequent in the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia. Many Muslims cite the Quranic phrase "But treat them equally... and if you cannot, then one [wife] is better" and argue that monogamy is preferable, or even mandatory.[/quote]

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Muslima, do you really, really want to start all this again? Don't you remember what happened last time?  Can't you see what's coming next?

- Muslim men can divorce women by saying the phrase "Talak, talak, talak." That's it. Women have to sue for divorce in court and may lose their children.
- Women get half the inheritance of men because they are dependent on men
- Women's testimony is worth 1/2 that of a man in financial courts
- Muslim warriors can take female captives as concubines
- Husbands may discipline their wives by striking in some translations, tapping in other translations. Wives have no similar recourse against husbands.
- The polygamy stuff you mentioned, except you called it polygyny which refers to women having multiple husbands.

By your reasoning, the fact that Jesus said nothing about inheritance or property rights could be interpreted to mean that Christianity granted these rights to women 600 years before Islam did.
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