They say Islam's holy book,the Koran, states men and women were created as equal parts of a pair.

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Fully half link it to terrorism, and almost 70 percent feel Islam encourages the oppression of women.

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"We suffer,as the rest of the women in the Arab world suffer, political Islam - the interpretation of Islam, which actually, is putting more burden on the women."

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In Islam women have more rights over men and men have more obligations to women.

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They talk about equality, but amazingly fail to see how in Islam women have fewer rights than men and infidels have fewer rights than adherents of Islam.

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Bearing in mind the popular perception that Islam marginalises women, I mentioned the example of Alison and asked Farooq whether he could imagine a woman doing his job.

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