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Women status before Islam.
by rafiuddin farooqui on Mar 15, 2007 10:48 PM

Facts



Indeed, women suffered immensely; they were the victims of every regiment, and the regret of all times, represented by many pages of deprivation, springs of sadness, they were deeply wronged, profoundly exploited in an unprecedented manner.



Chapters of Shame:



It is shameful that humanity was not treating women as human beings. All past civilizations exercised various types of torture, injustice, defeat and oppression unto her.



Greeks described her as the poisoning tree, and that she is filth made of from the Satan's work, and that she is sold as a commodity.



Romans said she has no soul and, as a sort of torture they poured hot oil over her, and she was dragged down to death by horses.



Chinese described her as the painful water which takes away happiness, and that a Chinese has the right to bury his wife alive and, if he dies his family will be entitled to inherit her.



Indians described her as worse than death, hell, poison, snakes, and fire. The woman has no right to live after her husband's death and that she should be burned with him.



Persians permitted the marriage of the unmarriageable with no exception), and it became allowed for a Persian to sentence his wife to death!



Jews described her as a curse because she is the reason of seduction, and that she is dirty when in menstruation, and they permitted her father to sell her.



In Christianity: The French held a conference in 586 AD to determine if the woman can be considered as a human or not, does she have a soul or not? If yes, is it a human or an animal soul? If it is a human soul, is it on the same level or on a lower level to that of the man? They finally decided that she is a human, but she is created only to service the man. The English parliament issued a decree during Henry the 8th rein, the English King, which banned women from reading the new testament (the falsified Bible) because they are sullied (dirty ) .



Before Islam, Arabs used to hate her like death. She used to be buried alive, or thrown into a well in a very brutal manner.



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