What is the one religion that seems to offer women the most power?

Question

please explain your answers.

Answer 1

Obviously Islam. We've been championing for Women's rights for the past 1400 years. Islam gave women and wives property rights 1400 years ago and Western countries only gave this right to women just 100 years ago. We have the right to earn our own money and keep it for ourselves, no one has the right to touch it, and at the same time the husband, and only the husband is responsible for the maintenance of his wife and kids. Muslim women also keep their family name, adopting the husband's surname would be disrespectful to her family...why throw away your family name, the identity that links you to the parents and the father who raised you? There are too many other reasons to state, but in Islamic states, you don't get women suffering from eating disorders and starving themselves to death just so that they can look good in a bikini.
Even a divorced woman in Islam has the upper hand in child custody. Muslim women have been leaders, doctors, scholars, war aides in the last 1400 years and the US to this very day has never even had a female president.

'Paradise is beneath the feet of your mothers'
- Prophet Muhamad (pbuh)

PS. An interesting and rather amusing tidbit, the Bible blames Eve, The Quran blames Adam. It's true.

Answer 2

Islam. The rights of Muslim women were given to us by Allah (SWT), who is All-Compassionate, All-Merciful, All-Just, All-Unbiased, All-Knowing and Most Wise. These rights, which were granted to women more than 1400 years ago. The most basic right of a woman in Islam is the knowledge and recognition that she never has to ask or demand or fight for her rights which are guaranteed to her by Allah (SWT) Himself. Islam does not blame Eve alone for the First Sin.

In the West, women may be doing the same job that men do, but their wages are often less. The rights of Western women in modern times were not created voluntarily, or out of kindness to the female. The modern Western woman reached her present position by force, and not through natural processes or mutual consent of Divine teachings. The fact remains that whatever rights modern Western women have, they fall short of those of her Muslim counterpart! Islam has given woman what duties her female nature. It gives her full security and protects her against becoming what Western modern women themselves complain against: a "mere sex object."






The Quran makes it very clear that both Adam and Eve were tempted, that they both sinned and were both forgiven after their repentance. A Muslim woman is always known by her father’s name, as a mark of her own identity. In choosing a marriage partner, her consent to accept or reject any prospective suitor for marriage must be respected. A Muslim woman has the right to seek divorce, if necessary within the laws of Islam.


Women in Iraq, after US invasion;
This is the new Iraq, where women were going to be free and equal - no more "rape rooms", no more psychopathic Uday Hussein summoning young virgins to the palace for his pleasure. In the early days of the occupation, we heard a lot about building schools, starting women's health programmes and funding women's micro-enterprises. At the 2005 State of the Union address, Laura Bush sat with Safia Taleb al-Suhai, leader of the Iraqi Women's Political Council, telegraphing the message that women's rights and democracy went together and that both were part of the big plan for Iraq. Well, scratch that.

The status of women was never as high under Saddam as opponents of the war sometimes asserted, and it was already declining throughout the 1990s, as Saddam embraced Islam to distract the populace from the effects of the Gulf war, UN sanctions, and his own depredations. But Iraq today is even worse for women: more repressive, more violent, more lawless. "I haven't seen the United States offering any protection for women," Mahmoud told me. Indeed, America is part of the problem. Think of Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, the 14-year-old girl raped and then murdered with her family by US soldiers in Mahmoudiya in March last year. For more, goto;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2082705,00.html

Answer 3

In Kami-no-michi (Shinto), women are held in the highest esteem. Many Native American religions and aboriginal religions of Africa, Central and South America, and Australia women are in power.

Answer 4

Dianic Wicca

Answer 5

From what I can gather Wicca treats 'women' more as equals that any other 'religion'.

Xianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism ALL treat their women as second class citizens.
Most even insist on separate worshiping chambers in the churches, temples, synagogues and mosques.

Answer 6

In many Native American philosophies, the woman holds the power, and can actually divorce her husband by placing his shoes outside. Nice!

Answer 7

Islam..Islam consider woman to be human with real human soul. mothehood is considered as blessing not punishment unlike christianity.

Answer 8

Feminism, it explains itself.

Answer 9

N.O.W