Is the Quran against women's rights?

When Middle East correspondent Carla Power began studying the Koran with a conservative Islamic scholar, she wasn't expecting to learn that it nowhere .... read more

No, the Holy Quran is not against the women’s rights. To clarify the point let me explain more. Firstly, according to the Islamic thought, the origin of mankind is his/her soul. Man and woman, based on this fact, are exactly the same and there is no deference between them. So the issue of sex is minor and inconsiderable. read more

At best, Islam "elevates" the status of a woman to somewhere between that of a camel and a man. Muhammad captured women in war and treated them as a tradable commodity. The "immutable, ever-relevant" Quran explicitly permits women to be kept as sex slaves. read more