Originally Posted by
LaBelleThatcher
You know the Prophet Mohammed was a radical feminist for his time?
Giving each wife a right to a private place sacrosanct even from her husband and limited inheritance rights to girls, automatic custody of girls for good and boys under 7 in case of divorce...I don't think Europe caught up until the 18th century. (The Ottoman Empire demanded the veils to discourage bedouin women from riding into battle with their men and thereby halve the opposition).
The Prophet married, and was bankrolled, by his boss (they had cougars then too).