Not true about Islam - to Donvan

Submitted by Amira (United States), Jan 18, 2007 at 20:49

You are wrong about the Muslim religion. Our prophet Muhammed never said that its ok to treat women as property - infact the status of women have been raised to this level after the spread of Islam. You should study the Koran to know what is written there, how women should be treated if the husband divorced them etc.

Muslim women are protected in Islam - the way I see it, it is not about Islam or how a muslim man behaves - it is about how people or men behave towards their wives or their families.

Islam puts women to a very high level. We have to protect ourselves so that we can be protected. In Islam women wears "Hijab" to cover themselves so that they don't look beautiful to other men but can only beautify themselves at home and in front of their husbands , they cannot go out alone of fear of being rape and victimized. In certain Islamic countries these are still being observed strictly, unfortunately people came to their home to rape them - like many reports.

In Islam, men are allowed to marry 4 wives within what they can afford and will not do it if they cannot behave fairly to all their wives, therefore it is not true that they are being ill treated. They are now many Bill being passed to protect women, as in Singapore, man cannot marry more than a wife unless they can show proof that the wife is not capable of carrying out her duties as a wife or show proof that he can afford. No "talak" can be falled unless the wife agree to it and it is a long divorced process. If divorce should happen then there is the question of inheritance and children and so on and so forth.

Beatings and insults happened in households regardless of whether you are married to a muslim man or non muslim man. This should be treated separately and not putting muslims or islam as the reason for violence.

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