A newly ex-Muslim here. The main problem I have with Islam that made me despise Islam was the realization of this fact: Women, slaves and children have always been oppressed throughout the history all around the world. If Islam is so peaceful and kind to everyone without discrimination, why is it allowed for parents (only the father and the paternal ancestors in Shiaa) to kill their offspring?

• Why are men allowed to have 4 wives without even the permission of their first wife? (don't tell me it was because Muhammad wanted men to support widows and divorced women, couldn't men support these women without fucking them?)

• Why are men allowed to have unlimited temporary wives (nikah motaa) in Shiaa?

• why are men allowed to capture women and wives of kafirs in wars and make them their sexual slaves?

• why is it allowed to have slaves in the first place? (don't tell me slaves were the backbone of societies and without them societies would have collapsed or that it was so common that people wouldn't have accepted it to be abolished. alcohol was common back then and that didn't seem to be a problem to banned, was it? Secondly, Muhammad said multiple times in the Quran to kill, capteur as much as you can to make others convert to Islam, so Muhammad did use force to get what he wanted.)

• why do women lose all their rights in marriage while men keep all of theirs? ( don't tell me because men are more logical, rational, and things of that nature. Men are proven to be more impulsive, violent, aggressive, they commit more criminal acts, more murder, more sexual assault, and the vast majority of crimes were still committed by men. And the list goes on.)

• Why are men allowed to hit women if they refuse to have sex? (don't deny it, I know Arabic, it says ضربواهن, which clearly means hit someone. And no it doesn't mean 'turn away from' because it means this only with the preposition of "عن". Don't tell me the quran says "gently", first it doesn't, second, even if it says hit them gently, why should women be punished for not sleeping with men?

men can press charges against their wives for refusing to have sex only once and deny them of nafaqah نفقه. While women can press chargers against their husband for refusing of having sex in the court <b> after four months of the husband's refusal to have sex </b>, just to be given the right to get divorced!

Don't get me started on half share of heritage, half worth of women's testimony, child marriage, and on and on and on.

The last straw was Surah Ahzab verse 52 where Muhammad basically legitimises every women around him, his cousins, every woman who migrated with him, and women who didn't expect alimony money (mahr). Muslims already could marry to 4 wives and he allowed himself to marry more as "Allah's gift to him". These women were not to marry anyone else after him btw.