Religion & Spiritual

Women's rights in Islam acknowledged by a Western politician: "Fourteen centuries ago, Islam beat the West by setting the pillars of women's social, economic and political rights. These are historic facts that cannot be denied. Indeed, Islam has given women the right of ownership, inheritance and the choice of the spouse. She was also allowed to participate in public and political activities all through the Islamic history. So here we are today, trying to reapply what Islam did 14 centuries ago, preceding the West and the Human Rights Organizations." (Extract of the British Ambassador in Cairo) Polygamy: "In my opinion, polygamy, as set by Islam, provides ultimate justice to women before men. In the Western and even Japanese and Eastern societies, there are publicly acknowledged relationships between men and women and there are the concealed ones. Indeed, most of the time, men do not content themselves with a single woman, which is their legal wife. They secretly acquire girlfriends. Polygamy is an ideal way of providing harmony and natural balance among people for many reasons. With time, the marital relationship might deteriorate, the wife's eventual sickness might keep her man at a distance, her sterility might create problems.. in addition, of course, there are many other reasons that make polygamy a grace for women before men." (Extracted from an interview with the Japanese writer "Soi Aora," The Arab Magazine, Issue 242, 1997)