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What are women’s rights in Islam?

In a truely Islamicsociety women have the following rights in Islam:

1. The right and duty to obtain education.

2. The right to have their own independent property.

3. The right to work to earn money if they need it or want it.

4. Equality of reward for equal deeds.

5. The right to express their opinion and be heard.

6. The right to provisions from the husband for all her needs and more.

7. The right to negotiate marriage terms of her choice.

8. The right to obtain divorce from her husband, even on the grounds that she simply can’t stand him. (pls note that God deeply frowns upon divorce as a solution unless there is hardly any other
alternative but it does not mean that men have more right to divorce their wives than women do.)

9. The right to keep all her own money (she is not responsible to maintain any relations).

10. The right to get sexual satisfaction from her husband.

11. custody of their children after divorce.

12. to refuse any marriage that does not please them

and more…

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Women in Islam Versus Women in Christianity and Judaism: The Myth & The Reality Part One 1.Introduction / 2.Eve’s fault / 3.Eve’s legacy / 4.Shameful daughters / 5.Female education / 6.Unclean or impure women / 7.Bearing witness / 8.Adultery / 9.Vows / 10.Wife’s property / 11.Divorce Part two 12.Mothers / 13.Inheritance / 14.Plight of widows  / 15.Polygamy  / 16.The veil  / 17.Epilogue  / Notes

Rights

• Islam, Irigaray, and the retrieval of gender 
• Boys will be Boys 
• The Harsh Reality of Women’s Rights
• The 12 Basic Rights of Women in Islam
• The Rights, Ideals and Roles of Women in Islam
• Women and True Education
• Advice to Husbands, From a Husband
• Marriage in Islam: Considered from a Legal Point of View
• The Unhappy Wife
• I am a Muslim Woman
• Elevation of Women’s Status
• A World Where Womanhood Reigns Supreme
• Status of Women in Islam
• More Rights of Women in Islam – Liberation
• 117 reasons for The High Status of Women in Islam
• Setting the record straight – Muslim Women HAVE RIGHTS!
• Women & Islam: Separating Fact from Fiction
• The Voice of Women in Islam
• The Distorted Image of Muslim Women
• Do we want Gold or Glitter?
• Islam & The Feminist Movement
• Enough Already!!
• During Menstruation
• Abortion
• Gender Equity
• Taliban’s policy on education of women
• October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Women’s Rights: The American Disappointment
• Role
• Aishah…The Mother of the Faithful
• The life of Aishah – a role model for all women 
• Women in a Qur’anic Society
• Qaradawi on Free-Mixing of Men and Women
• Women in Dawah
• In Recognition of Women
• Muslim Women and Community Life
• Man and Woman – A Comparative Study
• Sexism and Islam
• Online Book: Power Sharing Islam
• The Rights, Ideals and Roles of Women in Islam
• Obedience in The Taming of the Shrew: An Islamic Perspective
• Islam on Role Differentiation
• A Tribute to Mothers
• Women and Economics
• Advice to Husbands from a Husband
• Women & Work
• Can a Woman Hold a Position of Convicting Males?
• A Case for Home-Schooling
• Women and Sports
• An Islamic Perspective on Women and Sports
• Motherhood
• Role of a Muslim Woman as a Mother
• Home, Sweet Home
• Hijaab
• Quranic Verses about Hijab
• Basic FAQ on Hijaab
• Hijaab – An Effective form of Dawah
• The Veil as a Political Metaphor
• A lesson to be learned
• The Veil Is Not Oppression, It’s Chic, Say Muslim Women 
• Unveiling Afghanistan: The Bush Administration cares about women’s rights (as long as there aren’t any pesky women around)
• British Consulate rejects Passport Photo with Hijaab
•    A Muslim Woman’s Victory over UK Home Office: Guidelines changed
• Hijab Activism – Every Public Moment becomes Dawah
• In Defence of Non-Hijaabi Sisters
• Hijab Battles Around the World
• Anti-Hijab Discrimination: Some Legal Advice
• 10 Tips for Muslim Activists to Deal with Hijab
• The Question of Hijab and Choice
• Banning Hijab in Canada: It can Happen Anywhere
• You Don’t Have to Wear That in Canada
• The Fear of Hijab
• The Face Veil is not Obligatory
• The War of the Women
• Tug of War: Decisions By A Muslim Hijabi Woman
• The woman who can get by without her looks
• A Chinese American Non Muslim Woman Experiments with Hijaab
• Agonies Of Muslims In Veils
• Object of Despair
• Hey Barbie DOLL!!
• Cover your head, not your brains (by 4 Danish women)
• My Body is my Own Business
• “When I Covered my Head – I opened my mind”
• The Hijab is an ATTITUDE – not Fashion!
• Sumayyah’s Road to the Hijab
• Wearing the Hijab for the First Time
• The Dress of a Muslim Woman
• A HILARIOUS article about Various Types of Hijab
• Lowering our Gaze
• The Modest Clothing Site: For modest women of all religions
• Christian HeadVeiling Resource Page

Polygamy

• Polygamy – Definition and Guidelines 
• The Prophet’s Plural Marriages
• Who Practises Polygamy?
• Polygamy when Financially Insecure
• Polygamy: Degradation of Womanhood?
• The First Wife and The Second Wife
• Never say Never: A Story of Polygyny
• Awakening: A Story of Polygyny
• What Polygyny has done for me: Letter from a Daughter

Liberation?

• Date Rape
• Not Without Her Make-Up 
• When a Woman looks in the Mirror 
• For ever After…Really?
• Fair Ladies for the Altar
• Do you want freedumb or freedom?
• Good Advice On Rape Prevention
• Is Looking Pretty the New Taboo?
• Sex sells. As usual – have the woman sell it
• Little Justice for Rape Victims in South African Judicial System
• Why is Ally McBeal perpetually unhappy?
• Women’s Rights: The American Disappointment
• Life and Society without Hijaab
• Oppression faced by American Working Women
• American Mommys, could you adopt these babies? 
• Domestic Violence in America “People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.”

Injustice & Distortions

• Domestic Violence 
• Authority and the abuse of power in Muslim marriages 
• Forced Marriages
• Are there more women than men in hell?
• The Excellence of Raising Daughters
• American Mothers…could you adopt these babies?
• Black, Female and Muslim – stuggling as a triple minority
• The Media and its Representation of Islam and Muslim Women
• Muslim Women: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
• Female Circumcision: 2 articles
• Shattering Illusions: Western Conceptions of Muslim Women
• The Taliban and Women
• The Women of Afghanistan: Whose Concern Is It, Anyway? 
• In strong defence of the Taliban 
• Comments on the Petition for Women in Afghanistan
• An Agenda of Disdain: Cultural Imperialism and the Western Media View of Afghanistan
• Women In Pakistan are Falling Behind!
• Reviews of “Nine Parts of Desire” by Geraldine Brooks
• Women are ABUSED, even mutilated – in the name of Islam

Conversion

• Why are SO many Women Converting to Islam?
• Why more Women are converting to Islam
• Why British Women are Embracing Islam
• Former US model finds Hajj an Overwhelming Experience
• A new spiritual path for two women
• Muslim Women in Japan
• Marriage Leads Many Japanese Women to Islam