Reality of Islam Here

Distorted Image of Muslim Women
by a former non-muslim, Sister Naasira bint Ellison    Since the height of the feminist movement in the late 70's there has    been a magnifying glass placed over the status of muslim women.    Unfortunately, the magnifying glass that has been used is an unusual    one. Unusual in the sense that it is very selective about which items    it will magnify; other items it will distort to such a degree that    they will no longer look familiar. I remember once reading in an "in    depth" article about the lives of muslim women. This article    "explained" that at any time a man can divorce his wife by simply    stating "I divorce you, I divorce you, I divorce you". This article    can lead anyone ignorant of the Islamic ruling regarding divorce to    believe that in less than five seconds the woman is left with no    husband and is left to care for herself (and possibly children) by any    means necessary. The question that immediately popped up in my mind    was, "Did the author innocently write that out of sincere ignorance or    was it another of the many attempts to degrade the religion of Islam    and its followers (muslims)?" It may be my own paranoia, but I tend to    believe it was the latter of the two.    

The truth of the matter is that Islam has the most humane and most just system of divorce that exists. Firstly, many options are taken and tried before coming to the decision of the divorce. If the man and woman decide that they can no longer live together successfully as a husband and wife, the husband (in most cases,