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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (272529)	1/7/2010 1:32:53 PM
From: Sun Tzu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>> Women apparently had fair amount of power.. Mohammed remedied that Not really. So long as his first wife was around, Islam was very pro-women. That began to change somewhat once she died and he started marrying as much as he could. Just the same, it did not go too badly. It also helped that Mohamed only had girls. Some Arabs at the time engaged in infanticide of their new born girls. Islam, put a stop to that. Strictly speaking, Islam gives women many rights beyond what existed in Europe till recently. In theory, the man only has the right to sex and to limit her associations (but there is an out). He cannot even ask his wife to breast feed the baby. The woman may ask for monetary compensation for breastfeeding the baby and if that charge is equal or less than what it would cost to someone else to do it, the man is obligated to oblige. Nor is the woman required to cook, clean, etc. The man is however obligated to fully take care of the woman. Most importantly, the Islamic view of marriage is a contractual obligation. The man and woman engage in a prenuptial agreement and the woman can ask anything she wants in it, including for example, disallowing the man to ever marry again if he divorces her. That is of course the theory. In reality, it sucks to be a woman in a conservative Islamic society...then again, it sucks to be living in any conservative religious society...but that is just my opinion ;) ST