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Is it possible that Muslim women don’t want to be free?

Muslim holy books and culture seem to assume that women exist to be dependent subjects of Muslim men who guide them throughout their lives, to wit:
-Tabari IX:113: "Allah permits you to shut them (women) in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Quran."
-Sahih Bukhari: "A prayer is annulled by a passing woman, a dog and a monkey; Aisha complained that Muhammad had made women dogs...1.9.490, 493,498; A menstruating woman and a dog cuts off a prayer..."2.0703
-Tabari I:280: "Allah said, 'It is My obligation to make Eve bleed once every month as she made this tree bleed. I must also make Eve stupid, although I created her intelligent.' Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid."
-Hadis number 789 vol 2, p.114: “An ***, a pig, a Jew, a Magian and a woman annuls a prayer.”
-Quran 4:15 "If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death [by starvation] claims them."
-Quran 4:34: "Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them. Surely God is high, supreme."
-Quran 2:223: Your wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish and put forth [righteousness] for yourselves.”

In 2002 the United Nations sponsored the 2002 Arab Human Development Report (arab-hdr.org). Here are some highlights:
-The utilizationof Arab women’s capabilities through political and economic participation remains the lowest in the world
-About 65 million adult Arabs are illiterate, two thirds of them women
-The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) includes GEM (gender empowerment measurement) which reveals that women suffer “a glaring deficit” in women’s empowerment. Among regions of the world the Arab region ranks next to last as measured by GEM
-The number of illiterate people is still increasing, to the extent that Arab countries embark upon the twenty-first century burdened by over 60 million illiterate adults, the majority of whom are women
-Other, more cultural behaviours common in the Arab world can also have an adverse health impact. These include intermarriage between close relatives, promotion of early marriage, and female circumcision
-High maternal mortality (death during child birth) is a key health challenge facing most Arab countries

Perhaps we shouldn’t assume that Muslim women want independence, don't want to be free of male dominance? Perhaps 1,400 years of dependence has diminished even their desire to be free?

What's your theory?
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