Back in 2001, Madeleine Bunting of the Guardian came up with this:
Blaming Islam for practices such as female circumcision, they claim, is the equivalent of blaming feminism for domestic violence – it is linking totally unrelated phenomena. Again, the absence of a critical analysis of the tradition is striking, and there is no answer to the question of why, if Islam offers women a bill of rights, it has not liberated more women. The point, they reply, is that male chauvinism and its bid to control women exists the world over; it simply takes different forms, and when women are educated and know what Islam really means, they can fight back.
But what if the religious texts (Qur’an, Sunnah and exegeses) themselves have provided Muslim men with the religious justification for suppressing women.
The video above attempts to identify problematic content from the primary texts which may have done just that.
Muslims claim that the Islam freed the woman and gave her more rights. Many modern Muslims also claim that Islam is often misunderstood by both non-Muslims and by the fundamentalists. This Documentary shows historical facts from Islamic scripture (Qur’an, Sunnah and exegeses) explaining the woman’s role her rights in Islam