In the region where Arab peoples currently reside, women have previously ruled, becoming queens in their own lands, military leaders, and have achieved prosperity for their land, revitalisation for their countries, success, advancement, growth, development, renaissance, and progress!
In the 14th century BCE, Queen "Nefertiti" was one of the most powerful women in ancient Egypt, the wife of one of Egypt's kings, and she supported her husband during religious and social reforms!
Around 1.000 BCE, Queen "Bilqis" ruled Yemen (Saba), as she repelled enemies after breaking their power, secured the country from their evils, strengthened her kingdom with justice, governed her people with wisdom, restored the "Marib Dam", and laid the foundations of democracy and a state of institutions!
Around 800 BCE, Queen "Sammuramat/Semiramis" of Assyria ruled, possessing a strong personality, sharp intelligence, and captivating beauty, allowing her to impose her authority and maintain rule over the state of Mesopotamia!
In the 8th century BCE, Queen "Elissa/Dido" was crowned, the founder of Carthage and Her first kingdom. Renowned for her cleverness and astute management, she established and ruled Carthage in North Africa, known for its extensive trade and domination of the Mediterranean Sea!
Around 50 BCE, "Cleopatra VII", the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, was crowned, becoming governor of Egypt at the age of 22. She was highly intelligent, strong-willed, a savvy politician, and a brilliant military strategist! She spoke Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Berber, Ethiopian, and Arabic languages!
In 270 CE, Queen "Septimia Zenobia" ruled the Kingdom of Palmyra, one of the greatest queens in history, making Palmyra a great power in the Near East. She minted coins, focused on construction and architecture! She also spoke 4 languages!
Queen "Lamis bint Nouf" ruled Yemen (Marib), the oldest and first crowned woman in the era of the kings of Saba and the Himyarites. She co-ruled with her husband, "Dhu-al-Manar", and governed the country during his military campaigns that reached the Levant and North Africa.
In 680 CE, Queen "Dihya/Al-Kahina" was crowned, the queen of the Amazigh, who ruled North Africa. Dihya defended her kingdom and land with honour and pride against Romans and Arabs, becoming a symbol of courage and intelligence, respected by enemies before friends!
Thus were the women, queens and leaders, minds governing and managing countries, ideas establishing, developing, and constructing, plans solidifying, building, and erecting!
But after the savages of the desert, the nomads, and thugs invaded these lands, women became seen as deficient in intelligence and religion..
A few examples where Hadiths degrade women and instigate misogyny:
- Women are virtual slaves to their husbands. A & B
- Women are not allowed to refuse if their men call them to bed.
- Angels curse any woman who refuses her husband’s invite for sex.
- Wife’s salvation is contingent on her husband’s happiness.
- A woman’s prayer or worship is not accepted if she upsets her husband.
- Women’s lower status is portrayable only in a derogatory way.
- Women are created from a crooked rib.
- A good woman is very rare like a white crow.
- Most of the dwellers of Hell are women.
- Woman advances and retires in the shape of a devil.
- Women are a source of seduction and evil.
- Women are the worst form of fitnah.
- A nation fails if its ruler is a woman.
- Women are one of the bad omens.
- Women are inferior in intellect and religion.
- The whole of a woman is a private part.
- Women are degraded and lined up with animals.
- Women are treatable like inferiors and objects.
- Wives have no right over their husbands other than food and clothing.
- Women are like captives and domestic animals.
- Women should be beaten when required. A
- Men are not only allowed to beat their wives but also they are not accountable to God for this.
- Men are incited to polygyny and macho sexual activity with multiple women.
- Men are allowed to take child brides.
- The silence of a bride is always to be interpreted as her consent for marriage.
- Muslim men must marry only ‘religious’ women, thus precluding interfaith marriages.
- Women are so cheap that a man can marry a woman by paying her a bridal-due as little as an iron ring.
- A woman is not allowed to seek divorce except in extreme cases.
- Men, however, can instantaneously divorce their wives simply by three utterances of divorce.
- A wife, after this instantaneous divorce, cannot remarry her former husband unless she marries another person.
- Men are allowed to rape war captives or slave girls.
- Women’s honour is preserved through female genital mutilation (FGM).
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