Now I'm not much of a theist **Pulls on the suspenders**. But to attribute this to Islam as a whole is wrong. Like any religion there are moderate liberal thinkers and hardlined fundamentalist sh1theads. I'd say this law is solely to appease the hardline Taliban types in that country. Theres an election approaching and he's trying to garner support from these fringe hardliners. Unfortunately part of being a hardliner (wahhabi muslim) involves treating your wife as property rather than as a person. If you actually read the Quran theres nothing in there that justifies these types of laws. This is cultural crap that has been fabricated over the last 1400 years as a means of controlling women.
Sharia law which comes from the Quran and has been expanded by people doesnt place women below men. Infact it treats women equally when talking about family law and divorce. It states that when women and men get divorced all property (dowry) must divided equally. Infact some scholars argue that modern law in the western world originates from Sharia law.
Obviously this kind of law and opinion needs to change. But to attribute this to any religion is wrong. Personally I think most of this fundamental islamification of the middle east comes from the creation of Israel by the UN. After the war most of the liberal thinkers in the islamic world were freeing women from veils and treating them as equals. The hardliners only gained traction when the west started treating muslims as second class citizens. It also doesnt help that the center for spreading Wahhabism is Saudi Arabia, Americas best friend in the gulf.
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