Beating women in Islam

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Arab women before Islam were prohibited from inheriting the father or the husband.

4:11 Allah chargeth you concerning (the provision for) your children: to the male the equivalent of the portion of two females,

And now they get half. Lots of improvement. Praise Allah.

Islam demolished all of that and restructured the image of women in the minds of ancient Arabs, from treating them as weak burdens that need to be buried alive to equal human beings.

2:228 Women who are divorced shall wait, keeping themselves apart, three (monthly) courses. And it is not lawful for them that they should conceal that which Allah hath created in their wombs if they are believers in Allah and the Last Day. And their husbands would do better to take them back in that case if they desire a reconciliation. And they (women) have rights similar to those (of men) over them in kindness, and men are a degree above them. Allah is Mighty, Wise.

2:222 They question thee (O Muhammad) concerning menstruation. Say: It is an illness, so let women alone at such times and go not in unto them till they are cleansed. And when they have purified themselves, then go in unto them as Allah hath enjoined upon you. Truly Allah loveth those who turn unto Him, and loveth those who have a care for cleanness.

2:282 And call two witness from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not at hand, then a man and two women,

4:34 Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.

Equal.....my ass.