After 30 years of marriage Modou passes away due to heart failure. ... It Islamic community woman are often treated as property. ... Ramatoulaye because infuriated and tells him "you forgot I have a heart, a mind, I am not an object to be passed from one hand to another....
Islam does say that a man must present his wife with a dowry at the time her marries her, in order to acknowledge her status as an independent owner of property, and to make financial arrangements for her in the event of a divorce. ... The horrors faced by Hindu women were mainly the cause of ancient laws and customs passed down from one generation to the next, in much the same way some Islamic cultures have functioned. ... Women would then have to pass through a fire to determine guilt, and any sign of burns whatsoever was an indication of her infraction. ...
She maintained that women were born free and equal to men, and so being each one the "natural and inalienable" rights of liberty, property, security, must be granted to everyone, without discrimination of sex. ... They proceeded to take over the National Legislature, demanding a guaranteed supply of affordable bread, and passed mock legislation. ...
