A Rejoinder to Pope's Allegations Against Islam — Page 28
"WOMEN RIGHTS Now let us see how the Bible and the Holy Quran deal with the women rights, because in the whole world Christianity is beating the drum that Islam is not giving the proper rights to the women. According to the Bible, from the very beginning, it was decided that man is going to rule the woman; "To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall befor your husband, and he shall rule over you. " (GENESIS 3:16) Then in the New Testament a very clear-cut message is given, that women are created for men, that is it. "Indeed, man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man createdfor the sake of woman, but womanfor the sake of man" (1 CORINTHIANS 11:8-9) Not only that, but the freedom of speech and conscience is also taken away from women, She cannot even speak in Public: but still they say it is not inhuman; 28