What happened to women's rights in the muslim world?

Sorry to say but actually women and men can never be entirely equal in this world. But we are equal I believe in front of God when it comes to judgment/deeds etc.

Then you agree that the (hijab niqab burkha) Afghan people in the OP are intelligent because they did a great job in challenging the ideas which were enforced upon them and their families by communist regime.

You could but we aren't debating whether God exists or not. You're attempting to conflate other issues into the discussion because you can't defend that you have low standards of what it means to be intelligent. I applaud you for the attempted red herring non the less though

We can certainly prove that the Prophet (pbuh) and his companions took certain verses to mean that they should cover up. Since we're talking about Muslim countries and what Islam requires of them, that should be sufficient a conversation with a fellow muslim such as serine soul.

Show me where I've called other people to help me to debate you?
Do you see any tags or ...?

I'm implying that your implication that Muslims can't be intelligent is wrong because I know several Muslims who are very intelligent and probably more intelligent than you.

I am intelligent but I know Muslims who are more intelligent, some of them have over 5 A*s in very demanding A levels. I'd rather use them in my comparison because they're better than me and therefore the likelihood of my statement being wrong is lower.

I just remember the pathetic attempts that you people made to steal users from TSR. It was quite amusing how it seemed to be full of people whose heads were up their own behind.

Why can't they be equal?

I bet that one of Iran is *******s. Most Muslim girls there seem to don a hijab which shows their hair slightly, it's more of a fashion statement.

As for Afghanistan, everything went sour after the Saur Revolution and the ensuing civil war, where the Soviets invaded on behalf of the communists, and the US backed the Afghan-Mujahiden (which would become the Taliban), of course the US could afford to give more aid to the Islamists and with the help of the governments in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the Soviets were forced to retreat, which meant the extremists won.

Why can't they be equal?

Of course I made it up but being a Muslim my whole life and living in the two densent Muslim populations in the UK ... I think I can provide a pretty good estimate. Islamic fundamentals prevent someone being forced to do something. God loves piety and piety cannot be forced; it must be attained.

So your saying a woman will be able to do everything a man does and vice versa.

But then again a lot of people feel as though women are more or less equal here in the west, and that we should be looking towards the east/middle-east if we're really serious about feminism/equal rights.

You've quite a few gems so you've been here long. You know how the deal works. Something immigrant/muslim/brown people related gets posted. Few decent people reply defending something. Islamophobes jump in from all corners. 7 pages later and a war has escalated.

Posting something like this is obviously gonna lead to spreading hatred of Islam. Anyone who's been on TSR for long enough knows this for a fact.

Also, that picture is incredibly misleading propaganda. Fact. Hijabi and non hijabi women exist in "islamic" and "non islamic" countries in all time periods because not everyone is religious. Taking pics of some non hijabis from the past and comparing them to hijabis now and asking "what happened?" is a great way to start one of these wars.

I've seen this thread posted before, with the same pictures. It always focuses on Islam bashing and not about how to possibly enhance these women's rights, or a serious discussion into why this change happened. (Granted this time, this thread has been more constructive in parts thankfully)

And I'm sure some women who choose to dress islamically would feel insulted to have their choice of dressing to be called "uncivilised" and "extreme"

I see...

Awful!

What's even more sad is that muslim women think this way too, but I guess this is what happens when you've been indoctrinated from the second you're born and on top of that you live in fear of consequences from your family and community . It's disheartening reading all these threads on here with kids wanting to leave islam but being petrified to do it. They live in the UK but at the same time they are stuck in their parallel universe which is quite surreal in a 21st century modern democracy.

As I stated above, I personally wouldn't try to attack islam and be disrespectful purposefully. It is extreme, it is. How can you say it isn't? not all the women in the pictures chose that. I'm aware even the present day middle-east there are parts where women dress normally and are not pressed into dressing in a certain way, but in those pictures it is extreme. It's not an insult, it's an observation.

So your saying a woman will be able to do everything a man does and vice versa.

What does a man do.

Apart from the difference in genitals, I don't see how men and women are different.