Islam: The Oppression Of Muslim Women

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According to Quran women are the field of men and they can have sex with them anytime they want. "Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will..."(Yusuf Ali). In Islam women and land is like same thing to men. Men can do anything with them as they can do with their lands. It means that the value of women is just for having sex and similar to lands for males.
Furthermore, the other thing which oppress women in Islam is having domination of men over women. In Islamic laws and Quran women should be control by men and women should obey from men whatever men order them. From the Quran we can find verses and text that claim men should control women and these verses and text cause many other abuses from Quran by men and patriarchal societies. One example is Verse 34 and Surah 4 that claims women should be obedient to their husbands.
“Men are the protectors and maintainers of women because Allah gave more to the one than the other, and because they support them from their …show more content…

Men may justify their violence against women by these verses as the guardians of women and like these by the time they use from these. As well, the question is that why women need guardian? Is there anything in societies that threats women and if the men are the threats for them so why Islam did not bring any verses to prevent and forbid men from threatening or doing bad things to women. In addition, in other part of this verse Quran brought the laws for women when they do some disloyal things but they did not bring for men. It means men are free to do anything and there is no law to forbid them. When they do not share the bed with their husband, husband can hit them till they become obedient. It means in Islam it is ok to beat the wives. These mean that men are the controller over women and women are responsible to

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