Do you live a life of delusion Maz. Or are the periodic stories about women that are raped being stoned for allowing themselves to fall to the whims of a sick bastard that takes what he wants even if unwanted? I guess it is a right wing conspiracy about what we are told about some aspects of Sharia Law.
Either western media is telling lies or you have a twisted view of how to respectfully treat women. Me thinks you might be right that all women are treated equally. Except they are basically slaves to the whims of the male Muslim where Sharia Law rules the land. It would appear to those of us in the west.
Your media is doing wrong. I am a Muslim (not a practising one, though) but I do not know what Sharia you are referring to?? There are several sects among Muslims and all of them differ in their outlook about Sharia laws.
I do not follow them and what I say is directly from my own experience as a born Muslim and my experiences with them in Pakistan. I believe in the Scriptures including Quran and is very easy to comprehend what Sharia is.
I admit Muslim's a patriarchal society
but that doesn't mean we treat our women as 'slaves'. That is obnoxious.
A Muslim husband is wholly responsible to maintain his wife or wives....
and family. He must fulfill all his obligations towards women and stipulated in the Quran. Yes, only in case of wayward or loafing women a Muslim man may reprimand them.