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In a quite similar manner, but in Egypt, "the wives and children of Egyptian men are granted Egyptian Citizenship automatically, but Egyptian women cannot pass their nationality on to anyone"(qtd. in Leila). The Islamic-based argument of the authorities here depends on an issue that has nothing to do with citizenship, which is legislation. A Qur'anic verse that states that children must be named after their father is taken by the Government as an Islamic authorization of the establishment of such citizenship law. Hence, not only did the Egyptian authority abuse Islam to relate Islamic nomenclature of children with their citizenship, but also it did not give any justification for the favoring of foreign women over Egyptian women. Some Muslim and secular Egyptian thinkers find that the use of any religious-based law in such a way, is not applicable in cases of non-Muslim minorities for example, who do not believe in Islam. Fortunately the application of this law has been ended in September 2003, after long years of injustice.
The most severe example of supposedly-Islamic-based laws were those of the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Women were obliged to remain inside their houses. Added to the obligatory Niqab, education was forbidden to females, while the prophet of Islam says: "Seeking knowledge is mandatory for every Muslim, male and female"(qtd. in Badawi). The prophet made it a point of duty for every father and mother to make sure that their daughters (and sons also) did not remain ignorant of the teachings of Islam because they would, after the marriage, have to play important roles as housewives and as mothers of children (Doi). These were very few examples of how an image of a religion can be darkened and twisted because of the political, cultural and authoritative motives of policy-makers and societies.
In conclusion, the great gap between the rights that are supposed to be given to women by Islam, and the rights that are given to them now by Muslim states who work on implementing their own agendas, and by Muslim societies who are still under the influence of their pre-Islamic male-dominant cultures, exists and impacts both Muslim and non-Muslim societies.
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My name is Ayman el-Hakea, I am a Construction Engineering graduate from the American University in Cairo. My origins date to an interesting mixture of Yemeni, Moroccan, Albanian, and Egyptian ancestors. I always try to be a moderate Muslim, I like animation, geopolitics, comparative religion, and football. I like to be with "people"...and I hope my writing isn't boring for anyone.
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Ayman El Hakea | Mar 6th, 2005
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