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[quote=Anonymous]Recap -next time you see a claim that Islam granted women many rights, forget all the nonsense about clothes and remember this:

Women have significantly restricted rights to initiate divorce (vs. unrestricted right of divorce for men).  One form of woman-initiated divorce requires her to repay the dowry she received before marriage.  Most forms of woman-initiated divorces require consent of husband or consent of court. The only way for a woman to have an unrestricted right of divorce similar to what men enjoy by right is to provision for this in her marriage agreement.

Women automatically lose preferred rights to custody of children from their previous marriage when they remarry.

Islam has no concept of marital property. What each spouse makes during the course of marriage remains in exclusive ownership of that spouse - a provision severely disadvantaging homemaker spouses, which tend to be majority women.

Most schools of shariah, while granting ex-wives custody of minor children, require transfer of custody to the father when children reach a certain age (depending on the school, that can be 7, 10, 11, 14 or puberty).

Never-married women need consent of guardian to contract a valid marriage. [/quote]

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