But you see thats just it!! in saying there are different interpretations, your implying that the rulings on womens rights are vague and so up for differeing interpretations!!! theyre not!
it has absolutely nothing to do with interpretation and i cant stress this enough. the fact is people are ignorant. youd assume that living in a "muslim country" theyd know any better. but they dont. they are misinformed. theyre treatment of women stems from culture , which often claims that it comes from Quranic teachings. but noone bothers to actually check whether these cultural beliefs actually do agree with the Quran. and thats the problem. misinformation not misinterpretation. Backing up exactly what tangerine speedo just said.
About looking to the past. By looking to the past, i mean interms of moral and ethical systems, the way people treated each other and the way society held up. Society, in terms of ethics etc. was at it's peak during Muhammads time. Yes weve progressed in terms of technology and science, but our societal struicture is still the same. In looking to the past, we want to recreate the same type of society in terms of it's function-not as in riding on camels and living in caves. Muslim Spain and Jerusalem, and the time of the Calipha, were, and many historians agree on this point, were ideal societies , some may say, near perfect. Tolerance, satisfaction, zero poverty, caring for one another, no promiscuity, no civil unrest. Just absolute peace and happiness. The Quran and its teachings are applicable to the rest of time. Society was at it's peak at it's time of revelation and if implemented on Earth today, Utopia would prevail.
