Deoband fatwa: It’s illegal for women to work, support family
12th May 2010
LUCKNOW: Darul Uloom Deoband, the self-appointed guardian for Indian Muslims, in a Talibanesque fatwa that reeked of tribal patriarchy, has decreed that it is “haram” and illegal according to the Sharia for a family to accept a woman’s earnings. Clerics at the largest Sunni Muslim seminary after Cairo’s Al-Azhar said the decree flowed from the fact that the Sharia prohibited proximity of men and women in the workplace.
Your future under Islam. Don’t say that you weren’t warned.
Of course, if a Christian had said this, there would be a media firestorm.