They DO NOT HAVE TO because their husbands do not ALLOW them to work by simply reminding them of the Islamic commandments making only MEN responsible for care and provision.
Never heard of that happening.
Women can work if they want to. Islam doesn’t allow men to tyrannize their wives, sheesh.
Yet that very verse in your beloved Koran asks a man to beat his wife in order to show her the severity of her behavior! Isn’t this a means of punishment too? Your Mohammad considered all Muslim women as children who were to be reprimanded, abandoned, and beaten by their husbands whenever they attempted to do something naughty. I know many parents who choose to abandon their children in a dark room while punishing them. You will never be able to understand that a man’s abandoning his wife in bed is a means of punishment (and sexual sadism) unless you look at this issue from the wife’s perspective.
I am a woman, and I always look at things from the wife’s perspective first, because that is MY perspective. Islam does NOT consider women to be like children to be punished. And the procedure is not a means of punishment, as I have explained about half a dozen times already.
I wonder when you will desist putting into my mouth things I have never stated or even assumed. You should read my post again and again to see that Khadijah was the most outstanding and wealthiest Muslim woman before Mohammad obstructed the way to a woman’s financial hegemony through verses regulating inheritance.
This is nothing but your own opinion. There were many wealthy women AFTER Khadijah, and they had the potential to become wealthy by working and earning money which they never had to spend. Whereas men can inhereit and work but they must spend. Muhammad did not in any way impede women’s financial independence, in fact only encouraged it.
You are making up statements that contradict the certain verse in the Koran:
Surah 2:282 And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if **two men **be not (at hand) then a man and two women, of such as ye approve as witnesses, so that **if the one erreth (through forgetfulness) the other will remember. **And the witnesses must not refuse when they are summoned.
Mohammad’s Allah does not primarily need female witnesses! He only condescends to call women IF TWO MEN cannot be present. However, it stipulates that TWO WOMEN be accompanied by A MAN!!! The Koran apparently does not trust women when it says that TWO WOMEN will be present in addition to ONE MAN to represent the SECOND MAN. To put it into mathematics:
1) Call TWO men (no need for even one single woman!)
2) If you fail to find TWO men (which means that only ONE of them will be present)
3) Call that ONE man AND TWO women. Those TWO women will substitute for the OTHER MISSING MAN.
TWO WOMEN MAKE ONE MAN: 2=1
Where is equality?
I have already responded, at length, to AgnosTheist making a similar claim.
Please read carefully–the Qur’an in that passage is referring to financial transactions–if you read the whole verse, you’d see that. Women weren’t typically familiar with the business of commercial transactions, because it was the business of men. So the Qur’an says that when a financial contract is made, call two men to witness it. And if two men aren’t available, then call a man and two women to witness it.
Now, if some time passes and a dispute arises regarding the contract, and the male witness and one female witness have died or aren’t available to testify, the remaining woman can testify and her testimony will be accepted as the most valid authority regarding the contract, because she actually witnessed it.
In some cases, only the testimony of a woman will be accepted, like matters dealing with birth and other women’s issues. The Qur’an is not saying that the testimony of a woman is insufficient. It just calls two men to witness to transactions, as it was typically the business of men. Women weren’t insufficient witnesses, as their testimony is valid in courts, women are capable of serving as judges, women have transmitted hadith. In fact, of all the narrators of hadith, no woman has EVER been accused of fabricating ahadith, while some men have been. And one of the most authoritative narrators of hadith was a woman.
