[ April 18, 2024 ]
The silence form Ilhan Omar, Tlaib, and the pathetic feminist leadership in the West speaks volumes. Under Islamic law, a son gets double the share of a daughter.
Egyptian woman uses Christian doctrine to fight unequal Islamic inheritance laws
By: Caleb Parke | Fox News | November 15, 2019:
A Coptic Christian woman in Egypt is taking on the country’s unequal Islamic inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men.
Story continues below advertisementHuda Nasrallah, a 40-year-old human rights lawyer, has stood before three judges since her father passed away last year, demanding an equal share of the property left to her brothers.
Her brothers are in her corner, testifying on her behalf. But officials have ruled against her twice, citing Islamic laws that favor men.
“It is not really about inheritance, my father did not leave us millions of Egyptian pounds,” she said. “I have the right to ask to be treated equally as my brothers.”
In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 photo, human rights lawyer Huda Nasrallah poses for a portrait at her office in Cairo, Egypt
Nasrallah has formulated her case around Christian doctrine that dictates heirs, regardless of their gender, receive equal shares, but the courts have chosen to use Islamic law as their justification.
In early December 2018, Nasrallah’s father, a former state clerk, died, leaving behind a four-story apartment building in a Cairo low-income neighborhood and a bank deposit. When she and her brothers filed their request for inheritance at a local court, Nasrallah invoked a church-sanctioned Coptic bylaw that calls for equal distribution of inheritance.
A final verdict is expected to be handed down later this month.
She hopes she will have the same outcome of a 2016 ruling from a Cairo court that favored a Coptic woman who also challenged Islamic inheritance laws. But recent cases and the sentiment in the nation don’t bode well for the minority believer.
In this June 15, 2019, photo, a Coptic priest blesses an Egyptian couple during their wedding in St. Samaan’s Church, in the predominantly Christian Manshiyat Nasser area of Cairo
After calls for equal inheritance rights were introduced in the Arab world, Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the highest Sunni religious institution in the Muslim world, vehemently dismissed the proposal as contradictory to Islamic law and destabilizing to Muslim societies, fearing that if the state offers equal property rights to Christian women that Muslim women will soon request the same.
As a lawyer, Nasrallah feels compelled to make her case and hopes to set a precedent for others at Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court.
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13 Comments
4 years ago
I hope nothing happens to Huda Nasrallah at the hands of her muslum overlords because she is directly challenging Sharia law in this.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Prayers for her and so many who continue to undergo abuse in the Islamic world https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/04/25/622/
4 years ago
1. I’m a feminist, and I always speak up about Islamic misogyny. But it’s true though, not enough so-called “feminists” and other human rights supporters do speak up about it. :/
2. Best of luck to you, Ms. Nasrallah, and stay safe! XOXO
PS-Aren’t Egyptian Coptic Christians the closest living direct descendants of the ancient Egyptians (DNA and genetics-wise, LOL)? Just wondering.
4 years ago
Reply to
MTC
Well said! So many women are treated worse than property in the Islamic world https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/04/25/622/
4 years ago
1. I’m a feminist, and I always speak up about Islamic misogyny. But it’s true though, not enough so-called “feminists” and other human rights supporters do speak up about it. :/
2. Best of luck to you, Ms. Nasrallah, and stay safe! XOXO
PS-Aren’t Egyptian Coptic Christians the closest living direct descendants of the ancient Egyptians (DNA and genetics-wise, LOL)? Just wondering.
4 years ago
Indian muslim [f i l t h] ‘gambled his wife away’ after losing a bet and ‘assaulted her when she refused to go with the other man’
– Investigation underway after an Indian man allegedly gambled his wife away
– Binod Kumar Shah reportedly lost a bet he couldn’t afford & offered wife instead
– Shah allegedly assaulted his wife when she refused to go with the other man
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7690225/Indian-man-gambled-wife-away-losing-bet.html
4 years ago
Indian muslim [f i l t h] ‘gambled his wife away’ after losing a bet and ‘assaulted her when she refused to go with the other man’
– Investigation underway after an Indian man allegedly gambled his wife away
– Binod Kumar Shah reportedly lost a bet he couldn’t afford & offered wife instead
– Shah allegedly assaulted his wife when she refused to go with the other man
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7690225/Indian-man-gambled-wife-away-losing-bet.html
4 years ago
Nice, but useless. Muslums in Egypt are killing & persecuting their Christians to the point they are almost gone now.
4 years ago
Thats a great one ” destabilizing to muslim societies ” unable to withstand a little difference in belief – is what it is.
4 years ago
If her brothers agree with her why can’t they just give her part of their inheritance after it’s been received? Why bring the courts into it at all?
4 years ago
Reply to
Alondra
The point isn’t the inheritance as stated in the article. The point is to challenge Islamic law for non-Muslims. Sadly, Islamic law, aka sharia, applies to non-Muslims because Islam is political in nature and secondarily religious.
