Marital consent and the rape charge
Islam has no concept of rape within marriage. A husband may demand sex and his wife is obliged to submit, and the hadith are…
Women in Islam
Polygamy and the condition
A man may take four wives while a woman may take one husband. The inequality is written into the text.
The inheritance shares
A woman inherits half of what a man inherits. Islamic law values her at fifty per cent.
“I was taught that a father or grandfather can marry a girl off to whoever he wants, without asking her.”
The claim is stated with confidence, and it is false. A marriage contracted without the woman's consent is invalid, and the earliest sources say…
“Qur'an 4:34 says a man may beat his wife if she does not do what he wants. That is horrible.”
Take the reaction seriously first. Anyone who reads a popular English rendering of this verse and feels revulsion is reading it the way it…
“I learned that women cannot be witnesses in the Syariah courts, or that a woman's word counts for half of a man's.”
The claim that women cannot testify is not a strong version of the argument. It is simply untrue, and the verse usually cited to…
The head-cover and modesty
Women are forced to cover while men are not, which shows that Islam places the burden of male desire on women.
Marriage requires consent
Islam permits a father or grandfather to marry a girl or woman to whomever he chooses, without her permission.
Qur’an 4:34 in context
Qur'an 4:34 gives a husband permission to beat his wife when she does not do what he wants.
Women as witnesses
Women cannot serve as witnesses in a Shari'ah court, and where they are permitted, a woman's testimony counts for half of a man's.