Muslim society over the centuries has treated women as
second class citizens. It's been this way since the beginning of
time. Women are treated in this manor for a number of reasons,
but all leading back to the Quran. Women are considered inferior to
men, are treated unfairly in marriage, and even are oppressed
legally, but all are approved of in the Quran. It describes in detail
the way that a women is to be treated and the way a women
should treat her husband.
The Quran expresses the equality of the sexes in the
following. 'And their Lord answereth them, `I will not suffer the
work of him among you that worketh, whether of male or female, to
be lost. the one of you is the issue of the other.'(Q 3:195) So while
the Qur`an holds the works of men and women in equal regard and
acknowledges that they are completely interdependent to their very
existence, They are not regarded as having equal worth as people.
The fact that men are a step above the women and superior to
them is evident in the following verses. 'And it is for the women to
act as they (the husbands) act by them, in all fairness; but the men
are a step above them.'(Q 2:228) 'Men have authority over women
because Allah has made the one superior to the other.'(Q4:34)
Women are thought of as being lower in intellect and spirituals in
comparison to men. In the Quran it states, 'And of His signs is that
He created for you, of yourselves, spouses, that you may repose in
them.'(Q 30'21) This causes many Muslims to look at women as
creations like the animals and plants and other useful things created
by Allah. Muslims believe that women are lacking many of the...