Women & Sharia Law

By the 1960s women began to get the right to vote in a lot of countries, the feminist movement had reached its boiling point, but the Islamic societies, along with others, have stayed behind. Their views on how women should be treated are primitive, and although it can be argued that men still have a position of power when it comes to the working environment in most parts of the world, it is particularly notorious that Muslim women and men are not being treated as equals. Actually, it is difficult, maybe not even possible for women to be treated the same way as men, but at least they should be given the same opportunities to grow and develop and have a right to make their life what they want it to be.

I discussed in previous posts the fact that they were obliged to wear a specific type of clothing, the controversial burqa, but this is not the only thing that Muslim women have to live with, they have to live under the shadows of their husbands and some of them are even sold for marriage. The problem might be the fact that a lot of roots of this religion and Sharia Law are sexist, and the fact that the culture is so embedded into them from the time that they are born, they ought to never question their beliefs and those of their ancestors, and those who dare to question them are either stoned to death or exiled from their country.

If they took a moment to think about it, maybe they could see that there are far more people in disagreement with this aspects of their religion than those who endorse them, and maybe, united, they could begin to change things.