Do Muslim reformers really believe they are the first to notice that gender disparities exist in Islam? When it comes to marriage, eyewitness testimony, inheritance, and so on, were Muslims of the past simply unaware of these disparities, or were they too ignorant to understand, as modern reformers do, that gender disparity amounts to injustice, oppression, and abuse? And were they too incompetent to do anything about it? There are only a couple of options here: either past people really were that stupid and/or unethical, or modern reformers are projecting non-existent injustices onto the past.

Do Muslim reformers really believe they are the first to notice that gender disparities exist in Islam? When it comes to marriage, eye witness testimony, inheritance, etc., were Muslims of the past just unaware of these disparities, or were they too ignorant to understand — as the modern reformers do — that gender disparity is tantamount to injustice, oppression, and abuse? And were they too incompetent to do anything about it? Only a couple of options. Either past people really were that stupid and/or unethical. Or modern reformers are projecting non-existent injustices onto the past.