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In a fit of anger, a man divorces his wife, then wants her back. Why should she have to go through the indignity of sleeping with another man to remarry the first husband? A man can pronounce talaq three times in a breath and get rid of his wife; should a woman have to run from pillar to post and pay a price to end a relationship? Is not Mutah (the word meaning pleasure), a temporary marriage, actually a sanctioned form of prostitution? Not having the right to even perform Hajj without a male companion; her dress, moral conduct, level of education, age for marriage-debated, discussed and decided by the men in the community; being punished for the crimes that Eve is said to have committed, and compelled to abide by the laws ordered by a male god, implemented by the earthly men! What has the community really gained by keeping half of its population, backward, ill-educated, confined to homes and chained to the archaic laws?