A woman is not half of a man in Islam, please stop repeating it–you can’t make it true by doing so, and it only demonstrates your inability to progress in understanding.
I certainly have a choice about my husband–to marry him or not.
In many ways a woman’s attributes exceed a man’s, and in some the reverse. Spiritually both are equal.
You might be right - they are more like 1/4 that of a man since a man can have 4 wives and a woman only one.
Even Aisha, Muhammad’s beloved child bride, once complained to him: “I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women” (Bukhari 7.72.715).
From Aayan Hirsi Ali, “Muslim religion is many things but it’s certainly not friendly to women,” she said at the European Parliament, warning the West that it "shouldn’t indulge in and buy fallacies from Muslims.
Hirsi Ali said violence is the most important obstacle to liberating women and must be eradicated through policies such as positive discrimination and education campaigns.
She also warned domestic violence is on the rise in Europe and proposed setting up a European court and an attorney general to deal with domestic violence cases.
(and while sister amy keeps defending the indefensible - she offers nothing to help other women who suffer under islam in countries under sharia law - where she stated that she wants to move to
), Hirsi Ali has this to say:
“Women conceive and give birth to sons, but they don’t commit them to the noble cause of defending gender equality,” she told a seminar on combating violence against women. “The problem is the inability of women to draw up a plan on how to help women.”
some things from the koran:
Muhammad refers to it in a hadith that suggests that while men and women may have the same “innate character,” that doesn’t mean they are equal in dignity, for women are…crooked: “Woman has been created from a rib and will in no way be straightened for you; so if you wish to benefit by her, benefit by her while crookedness remains in her. And if you attempt to straighten her, you will break her, and breaking her is divorcing her.”
Ibn Kathir says this the requirement to deal justly with one’s wives is no big deal, since treating them justly isn’t the same as treating them equally: “it is not obligatory to treat them equally, rather it is recommended. So if one does so, that is good, and if not, there is no harm on him.”
Verses 15-16 lay down penalties for sexual immorality. V. 15 prescribes home imprisonment until death (unless “Allah ordain for them some (other) way”) for women found guilty of “lewdness” on the testimony of four witnesses. According to Islamic law, these four witnesses must be male Muslims; women’s testimony is inadmissible in cases of a sexual nature, even in rape cases in which she is the victim. If a woman is found guilty of adultery, she is to be stoned to death; if she is found guilty of fornication, she gets 100 lashes (cf. Qur’an 24:2). The penalty of stoning does not appear in the Qur’an, but Umar, one of Muhammad’s early companions and the second caliph, or successor of Muhammad as leader of the Muslims, said that it was nevertheless the will of Allah: “I am afraid,” he said, “that after a long time has passed, people may say, ‘We do not find the Verses of the Rajam (stoning to death) in the Holy Book,’ and consequently they may go astray by leaving an obligation that Allah has revealed.” Umar affirmed: “Lo! I confirm that the penalty of Rajam be inflicted on him who commits illegal sexual intercourse, if he is already married and the crime is proved by witnesses or pregnancy or confession.” And he added that Muhammad “carried out the penalty of Rajam, and so did we after him.”
I could go on, but it is just more of the same - denials from muslim women and the facts of what is true.
