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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

I think I understand your confusion. Islamic principles are a careful balancing act protecting the right of the individual but also considering what is best for society as a whole. Islamic principles are deemed timeless. Any girl over the age of puberty may marry with the consent of her father or guardian. This was true in 600 AD and holds true in Islam today. It is not subject to the culture or morality of society of the time.

That Aisha got engaged at 9 and married at age 14 is defensible to Muslims simply because Islam permits it. However, this defense is not acceptable to you since you clearly reject Islam. As such I tried to show you that Aisha's marriage was really not unusual at all in those times. Many girls from well to do families, important families, or from royalty married that early.

Muhammad condemned people in his society at the time because their actions, such as burying female children alive, committing usury, depriving women of rights, etc..were not simply a reflection of those times, but instead acts that were abominable because they impinged on the rights of individuals and were very harmful to society.

[b]Muhammad forbade the killing of female children,[/b] made it acceptable to marry widows, prohibited usury, gave women inheritance rights, etc...and these rulings hold today.  
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Different PP here from the one you're talking to.

I'm so tired of hearing that ending female infanticide (burial) is why Islam is so wonderful. To non-Muslims, there's a sharp incongruity between patting ourselves on the back for ending a barbarous practice 1400 years ago, and the inequalities that continue to apply to women today: lesser value of a woman's testimony, women's restricted ability to divorce, women's lesser inheritance rights, custody rights, and let's not even go into the relative roles of men and women in a marriage.

BTW, you also mention inheritance rights but, typically, you don't bother to explain this. To be clear for those who don't already know: Mohammed/Quran gives female heirs 1/2 the inheritance portion received by male heirs.

[b]I'm sorry, but every time you represent things like "inheritance rights for women!" in a way that implies actual equality, other posters and I will feel compelled to come on and set the record straight[/b]. [/quote]

And I, as a Muslim woman feel compelled to come and tell you stop speaking for me. You really think that you as an outsider care more about my rights than I do? You really think you can defend my rights better than I do? Who made you the voice of records for Muslim women? In Islam, the male inherits double the female(this is in the case of brothers & sisters), because the man is [b]legally [/b]responsible for  financially 100% taking care of his parents, wife, children, divorcee (for a period of time), sisters (single or widowed), and his aunts.  He can be sued in court by any of these people if he neglects them, and the court would enforce payments upon him to them. As women in Islamic law are not required to maintain themselves or others, they are given half of what men receive in inheritance in observation that they are not responsible for the maintenance of anyone and to replenish men’s wealth who alone are responsible to work and provide maintenance. In this, Islam opposed the ignorant un-Islamic practice that forbade women to inherit under any circumstance because she does not maintain anyone Muslim women are free to do whatever they please with their money, while the men are NOT, they are obligated to fully maintain the women. Without doubt those who claim that Islam is unjust toward women because it gives her half of what men receive in inheritance are ignorant of the distribution of rights and obligations in the pure, just Islamic law.

Being a Muslim woman is a joyful thing, really we enjoy it and we love our rights and can not think of anything that honors women the way Islam has honored us. Of course you will never comprehend this... Muslim women have been heads of state more than 5 times in Muslim-majority countries, elected democratically by popular vote , how many times has a woman been president of the United States? But hey, we need to be liberated, talk about messed up priorities  :idea: [/quote]

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