Muslim Women In The Middle East

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The term ‘Muslim culture’ is commonly used to represent many diverse Muslim cultural groups: the Asian Muslims, the Middle Eastern, the African, the European and the American Muslims, each with their own variations on customs and traditions. Some customs and traditions may be more motivated by culture than by religion. The Muslim cultural group where literally women have not rights is in the Middle Eastern. According of the Qur`an (Islamic bible), Allah grants the equality to the man and to the woman, the same rights, virtues and obligations. Nevertheless, the truth of the role of woman is different, in the majority of Muslim countries, woman suffers a strong discrimination and oppression. Allah dictates a few procedure in the Qur‘an, but …show more content…

In this stronger and strange religion woman have many discriminations such as: woman have dressed with the Hijab, the daughters receive a part of the inheritance, though only the half of the assigned to the children, woman are prohibited to meet in public groups. Always women are controlled by their husband, and must accept all that they said. Woman can not contradict or repudiate their husband, on the other hand man can do it without it turns out to be a disgrace for his family. The wives must accept other wives of his husband in house, since the Islamic marriage is polygamous. The men can marry even 4 women.
From the first menstruation, the girls are considered adult women, for what a husband looks for them. The family of the girl will not be able to choose he husband, on the other hand the family of the men will be the one who chooses the woman. The women will accept the decision and the husband, although she does not agree. The conjugal domicile turns instead of imprisonment and obedience to the husband. The Muslim woman must marry a Muslim man. The matrimonial relations are not allowed between members of another …show more content…

They must dress with the Hijab, is a veil that covers the hair, face, neck and in occasions hands also. This garment is imposed on the women by their husbands. In case of the girls this garment is imposed by their parents. According to Allah the women must conceal his beauty, to avoid to excite the men and that these do not attack. For what if a woman is attacked sexually while does not take the hijab, she is guilty, for showing his beauty and provoking the men. When the women are in her menstrual cycle they cannot enter the mosques, pray or support sexual relations. In addition they can neither read the Qur‘an nor touch it. The clothes spotted of women with menstruation are impure. Maintaining eye contact when talking might make Muslim women and the elderly uncomfortable. A better way is to look into their eyes briefly every so often and then look away (perhaps at the collar, or an imaginary spot on the side) at the same time tilting the head and/or nodding now and then to show interest in the

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