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Women’s Rights

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Islam suppresses women and strips away their rights.

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Islamic Response:

Islam elevated women's status in the 7th century— ending female infanticide and granting inheritance, property, education, and marriage consent rights long before other civilizations.

  • Qur'ān 4:7 – daughters receive a share of inheritance.
  • Qur'ān 33:35 – spiritual equality of men & women.
  • Ḥadith: "The best of you are those best to their wives."
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Biblical / Talmudic comparison:

  1. New Testament: 1 Timothy 2:12 forbids women to teach or hold authority; 1 Corinthians 14:34 commands them to remain silent in church.
  2. Old Testament: Exodus 21:7 allows a father to sell his daughter; Numbers 30 states a woman's vows are nullified if overruled by her father or husband.
  3. Talmud: The daily blessing «She-lo 'asani ishah» (Berakhot 60b) thanks God for not making the speaker a woman; Kiddushin 80b places women in the same legal class as slaves and minors.
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Which scripture truly oppresses women—the one that first granted them legal personhood, or the one that thanks God for "not making me a woman"?