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They tell women sweet words, and show them the ugliest crimes

Women are the sisters of men

Women are honoured and cherished

Woman is protected, lives in luxury and wealth and lacks for nothing

Woman lives like a princess at home

Islam honoured woman

It is all empty talk, and women see none of it.

On the contrary: she is forbidden to work, forbidden to finish her education, forbidden to love, forbidden to live her life freely, forbidden to choose her clothes, forbidden freedom of opinion in her society.

And in the comments they say: who told you they are forbidden? We have university graduates, doctors, presenters and actresses…. etc.

But sadly, those on the scene are very rare, and most of them went through a series of insults, torment and suffering before they stood on their own feet and managed to achieve a small part of their dreams.

And some of them may have lost their families, and been disowned by the whole tribe, because they want to be part of society.

But the great majority live in darkness, oppression, injustice, tyranny and violence all their lives.

And although it is women who give birth to society and raise it

she is supposed to raise her sons and daughters to be great and strong, to face the injustice that girls will live through in the future.

But sadly what happens is exactly the opposite.

The mother who was raised in ignorance — and when I say ignorance here, I do not mean only a lack of information, but belief in destructive ideas, superstitions, myths, customs and traditions, oppression and injustice — reflects all of her upbringing onto her children in the same way, and plants in her daughter, by every means, the culture of slavery to men.

Perhaps the real reason that led most women in the world to accept staying at home is the mistaken concept and theory which claimed that if a woman goes out to work and leaves her children, she will cause them serious psychological harm.

And likewise those theories that persuaded woman that she can fulfil herself as a female only through childbearing and raising children.

New scientific research has proved all these concepts wrong, and has even revealed that men and society used children to tie women to them at home.

Much research has shown that children's development is not affected by the mother's absence at work, whether that absence happens in the child's first three years or even later.

One result of this deception was that the mother came to believe that raising the children is her responsibility alone, and when she begins to think of working she feels guilty, because she feels she will cause harm to her children.

And when she has some ambition to work, she finds society and her husband confronting her with the question: and the children?

So you find her falling completely silent, unable to answer

The mature, aware woman can now settle this question by saying that a mother devoting herself entirely to her children is harmful to her and to the children, and that the responsibility of fatherhood is exactly like that of motherhood, in no way less.

That is why, when society or a man tries to ask the mother about the children, he must ask himself the same: a child does not need only a mother's care and tenderness but needs the same care from the father, and the responsibility must not be placed on the woman's shoulders alone so that it becomes a reason to keep her from working and confine her to cleaning and caring for children.

And if there are wonderful mothers who understand their rights and want to plant freedom and strength in their daughters, they and their daughters are punished by society in different ways.

All this persecution and injustice is practised on children and women so that traditional societies emerge as exact copies of previous generations, creativity, excellence and freedom of thought are destroyed, and human beings are stripped of their humanity and their rights, to submit to the slavery of men alone.

Then we complain about women being killed for very trivial reasons, we complain about senseless wars that devour everything, green and dry, we complain about ignorance and backwardness in society, the decline of development and the economy, and the rise of poverty, famine and disease.

Don't ask me what one has to do with the other?

These are natural results ,,, these phenomena are caused by your injustice and oppression of girls, women and children under the names of customs and traditions

which make society grow up unable to think or express its opinion, and unable to develop its life and its community.

It is raised afraid to do anything, because it believes society will punish it, hold it to account and destroy it.

Imagine: 70% of society are women, and yet they are stopped from working and taking part in society and forced to sit at home

This huge share has become a consumer of the economy without contributing any production in reality.

It has become a social force, but one paralysed from moving and barred from working.

It is as if you sent your son to a teacher who has never learned anything: what do you expect him to teach him, with 0 experience?

Scientifically, women are better than men at governing and at running political and economic affairs

because men have a vengeful and violent tendency towards situations they dislike or that annoy them.

While women prefer dialogue, discussion and peace, and aspire to a better life for the coming generations, because she feels the importance of society — especially as she is the one who gave birth to society and felt its existence and the importance of its life.

I remind you of Queen Bilqis and her exchange with King Solomon.

King Solomon's message was aggressive; he said: I will come to you with an army whose front is with me and whose rear is with you — although she had committed no wrong, did not know him and had not heard of him, thousands of kilometres lay between her and King Solomon, and she posed no threat to his kingdom.

And yet her reply was (Kings, when they enter a town, ruin it and make the most honourable of its people the most humbled), and she preferred peace and coexistence and was able to save her country from war and destruction.

Queen Elizabeth, Queen of Britain: after she came to the throne following the Second World War, international wars, the occupation of countries and the seizure of peoples' wealth stopped, and the world became better.

Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, wife of the Messenger of God, had great commercial influence in Quraysh, and Muhammad worked under her management and command; she was one of the greatest women in wealth and business, and the Prophet did not stop her and make her sit at home.

Likewise, Christine Lagarde, the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund, the organisation that brings together the economies of 188 countries around the world, and the greatest global economic institution.

Indira Gandhi

An Indian politician who served as Prime Minister of India for 3 consecutive terms; a woman of standing in the world, under whose leadership India became a strong country that made progress in many fields

Queen Victoria

She was Queen of the United Kingdom and ruled the vast British Empire, which stretched across six continents, for 36 years,

and under her rule slavery ended throughout all the British colonies and most men were given the right to vote.

 Empress Maria Theresa of Austria

who ruled half of Europe for 40 years, and the decisions she took were the first cornerstone of Europe's renaissance and progress.

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