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they do!!!

man i hate that stuff! and loads of sisters agree with me!
yeah why not? why dont u ask all the islamic universities that dont allow women in? aswell as that, ask those that do allow women in that have less than half the faculties for women than they do for men.
its real bad that islam is not accessable to the sisters in the same way as it is to brothers its a problem, i seriously believe that many brothers have this crazy idea that they have mental supremacy over the faith than sisters do or assume sisters are just too stupid to learn the deen at the same level, take al-azhar for example; 6 different faculties for theology for bothers but not a single one for the sisters.
seriously brother, the Quran can be applied for all times cant it? the verses of the Quran are just as valid as they were 1400+ years ago as they are now, so this ayah:
And when the female infant buried alive is questioned, for what crime she was killed?
- Al Qur'an 81:8-9
i see it different, there are more than one way of 'burying' sisters alive nowadays and sadly it is done intellectually, i reckon that the brothers are afraid of sisters being better than them in religious studies and stuff, but the facts speak for themselves, one of the greatest scholars of islam was Aisha (ra) and she never, not once mistakenly related a hadith and there were numerous men from the Sahaba who did.
yeah its sick, but its sick at both extremes of the spectrum, theres exploitation like uve described ^ and thats one extreme i agree, but there is another extreme wich comes from applying islam 50% and then improvising the rest in order to maintain this man made psychological hegemony over the faith.
sorry off topic. i dont know bout polygamy, but i think the sunnah doesnt just stop at taking the second wife, the sunnah is also in how shes treated and if u cant implement the full sunnah, then dont attempt at half or a third of it cos otherwise its distorted islam which...is not islam! lol i dont know
wassalam