In many societies, a woman is still regarded as a second-class citizen and deprived of various basic rights enjoyed by the male population.

However, while some specific verses at face value seems to be promoting male dominance, alternative interpretations are important to consider. For example, there are people who say the Koran is a good book, and it’s a holy book, and it’s the word of God. In fact, the five main schools of thought in Islamic jurisprudence ( Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, Hanbali, and Ja’fari), formally adopted by Muslim countries, agree on four basic principles of Islamic law; it changes with time and place, must serve the public interest, should not cause harm, and may be discarded if its cause has faded. She went up to her father and removed the filth and then stood firmly and angrily before the group of Quraish thugs and lashed out against them.In each there shall be virgins chaste and fair, dark-eyed virgins sheltered in their tents whom neither man nor Jinn have touched before. As a result, the subsequent mainstream interpretations became based on authoritarian patriarchal interests and imposed by nation states. I am particularly grateful to Muhammad Zafrulla Khan for writing a treatise on a subject so misunderstood by the West. As such, a holistic multi-dimensional approach that incorporates all social, legal, and religious foundations of gender discrimination needs to be adopted. The majority of Muslim women are brought up with the conviction that it is Allah’s command for them to be under male dominance and their fates are interwoven with that of men.

Khankan, who has mixed Syrian and Finnish heritage, founded Mariam Mosque, Europe's first mosque for women, in Copenhagen, where she leads prayers and even officiates marriages under her role as an imam. Especially the beginning of the book, the first part that describes my family – I try to show just how stuck in the middle they are. Because when I lived in Kenya, which was a former colony of Britain, I read books that were written by Westerners for Westerners.

For an honour killing the government will say that’s murder and the law will go after the murderer, and the murderer will be put in jail. The popularization of these alternative interpretations as well as alternative religious education in the Middle East can provide Muslim men and women the tools to advocate gender equality in Islam and through Islam. During the last thirty years, hijab has been and continues to be the political and ideological symbol of political Islam, Islamic states and the Islamic movement in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. It is considered haram for both men and women to wear clothing that fails to cover the body properly (which stated in clothing guidance, the term "aurat/awrah") and clothes that are transparent. He then gave her a choice: ‘Either retract from your belief or be prepared to be crushed by a huge boulder.