Should the rest of the world adopt Islam's view of the inequ

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Should the rest of the world adopt Islam's view of the inequality of women?

Pickthall4:34
"Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other,

Every moral legal system I know of in the West and most of the non-Islamic world begins with equality for all.

Should the rest of the world adopt Islam's view of the inequality of women?

Check the value of a Muslim woman, according to some Muslim men, at the 8 min. mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbTATkLntBU

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DL

I don't think that anyone should be made to accept anyone's views.

Folks in Finland speak Finnish. Therefore the whole world should adopt the Finnish language.

Is that your logic?

You're saying that "Islam dictates X", and then you ask "should the rest of the World adopt X?"

But you skipped over the part where you explain what the fact that Islam dictates X has to do with whether, or not we adopt X.

So Muslims practice X. So what?

Islam was actually very unusually liberal in the rights of women, for its time. Compare it to Judaism for instance.... Judaism said a woman can not get an inheritance if she has brothers, whereas Islam says a woman gets the half inheritance but does not have to share a single penny, whereas a man has to share it equally among his family members. Sure, a woman's testimony was half of a man's, but that is FAR better than no testimony.... Woman also have the right to divorce in Islam, and the right to be active in the community... contrary to popular belief, in the early history of Islam, including in the Prophet (AS)'s time, women were active in the community, and the veil was a pre-Islamic custom which was only enforced later..... But the headscarf, yes, that was always required. Woman also have the right to choose their marriage partners, to drive (contrary to what the saudis think, women rode camels back in Muhammad's day, as shown by stories of his wife A'isha riding a camel), to work, etc.

and until the 1920s, women did not even have the right to vote in the USA, and were withheld many other rights for much longer, so I'd hardly say the Western legal system "starts" with "freedom and equality for all"

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