Shariah: Is it "barbaric"?

[Thor]

The Shariah is social and communal in practice, and the society revolves around the strong base which is the family, and it tries to uphold and strengthen the society with this base in mind.

How does killing your daughter for being a rape victim "strengthen the society"?

Relationships between males and females at the intimate level is only permitted between the husband and wife, the marriage contract is a legal entity in the form of contractual obligations which are upheld and maintained under the Islamic law.

Well, it's an incredibly pathetic contract, isn't it? The husband can simply ditch his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times. The wife can do no such thing. Pretty much a one way street, isn't it?

This means that intimate relations between couples who are not married are illegal and are not acceptable by the law. A marriage may have turned into just a pointless piece of paper in the west, but in many eastern nations, it still is what it's supposed to be - a legal contract - and this means that there will indeed be legal repercussions for not abiding by the terms of the contract. Nobody should enter into a contract while not intending to commit to the terms of the agreement.

And how many Muslim women (or, more accurately, young girls) are forced into a marriage they don't want because their father orders it? And we're talking 13 year old girls being forced to marry 60 year old men. How can you possibly say they "entered into a contract"? They didn't! They were forced!

Yes, men and women do not have equal rights in respect to their married lives (according to shariah),

Glad to see you admit it.

but women are allowed to work, get educated, become teachers, leaders, and do many other things that men are allowed to.

Why aren't they allowed to do everything a man can do?

The main differences between them are in respect to certain relationship matters. In Islam, equality is a religious and spiritual equality which means that when we do good deeds, whether a male or a female, we are both rewarded equally.

You mean both sexes are "rewarded equally" by your fictitious deity after death? Gee... that's helpful.