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What Kind of Yemen?

Female share in the Yemeni Assembly of Representatives is at the low-

est level in the world, less than 1%. (3) In an investigation into women's
rights by the World Economic Forum in 2013, Yemen came last on a list
of 136 countries. (4)
But why are women in Yemen in this position? In fact, women in
a wide range of countries throughout the Islamic world, from Morocco
to Afghanistan, live under similar conditions to those in Yemen. This
causes some people to blame Islam for the difficult conditions faced by

women. This is clearly a blatant error, however. Unfortunately, a lack
of knowledge of Islam among many people emerges on the subjects of
women's rights and the importance of women in the Qur'an, as it does
in so many other areas. The false idea that women should be treated as
second-class people in Islam is based, not on the Qur'an, but on various
forms of regional traditions, ignorance, or belief in outright nonsense.

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