Question about female worth in islam.

[WesOlsen]

I'm a former Muslim and was raised in a very conservative Salafi household, so let's must boil it down to two things:

1. Women gen 1/2 of what a man gets in inheritance.
2. The testimony of 2 women equal of that of one man.

But you forgot that men are obligated to pay all expenses for women so the 1/2 inheritance that they get is a bonus

This particular hadeeth was actually one of the first to make me become skeptic because of the very obvious injustice.

There is no injustice here, it is just a fact
It is like saying the crime rate in African American is higher than others; it is just a fact nothing more!

Well it's good news indeed that men are obliged to pay all of the women's expenses, like when they go out to buy shoes and makeup and pink furniture, they can at least rest easy knowing that you'll allocate them some spending money (equally presumably between one, two, three of four wives?). And if the shit does hit the fan, at least they can relax knowing that they'll receive their -50% BONUS. Boom, if that isn't fair then I don't know wha.............oh wait.

This just emphasises the tribal small-mindedness and lack of real foresight and philosophy prevalent at the time of these writings. The men (and they are always men) that wrote this guff are simply obsessed with the functionality of the woman. You talk about them as if they are property, all this 'allowing' and 'permitting' and 'beating when disobedient'. The proof really is in the sandy pudding, the quran gives women their 'place' before god, and indeed before men. They must modify their behaviour and dress sense for the benefit of men, because if a man wants to have sex or get a throbbing boner it's the woman's fault, not the man's.

This was all explained to me by my (male) muslim colleague, whilst my female muslim colleagues sat in uncomfortable silence knowing that they had no theological backing that would permit them to counter, despite being visibly uncomfortable with it all. The truth hurts I suppose.