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CommonGrackle posted...

I can't think of any other place where women need a male guardian to travel a certain distance from home.

and I've read the Qur'an maybe a couple times now. I don't remember seeing any provision in that book to justify what is going on here. even the full body coverings are subject to interpretation. (heck many Kurd women don't do it)

The Quran is only a small piece of the picture. Most of the bad stuff you see done in the name of Islam is based on a hadith. They are quotes and scriptures that occurred after the death of Muhammad that have been declared canonical by various sects within the religion. Sort of like how Christians consider the New testament stories canonical even though they were written long after Jesus died. A significant cause of conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims is based on which Hadith they consider real or fake.

Similarly, a fatwa is a legal ruling made by an Islamic scholar that is considered by some sects and official application of Islamic law to a modern situation in the way that the US Supreme Court interprets law around cases.

Additionally, since Islam is the only one out of the three abrahamic religions to explicitly have guidance on jurisprudence, you see a larger concentration of theocratic nations applying 1400-year-old rules as law. Judaism and Christianity have guidelines that they want individuals to follow, but the Quran specifically has laws and prescribed punishments that leave little room for interpretation.

If you only ever read the quran, that would be sort of like looking at modern-day Catholicism and assuming that it's based purely on just the New testament and not hundreds of years of religious councils and Pope edicts.