treatment of women, slaves, dhimmis

[verzz]

many historians of islamic civilization have analyzed these groups (women, slaves, dhimmis) together as "second class citizens" or subservient groups. what are your thoughts on this ?

[star_munir]

In Ismailism the status of men and women is equal and both have equal rights as per Farman and Ginans.

[kmaherali]

"Wherever the indigenous population is Muslim there is remarkably little racial antagonism or sense of bitterness against the European, in spite of the European's obvious economic superiority. Islam after all, is a soil in which sentiments of this sort do not take root or flourish easily. This is not a shallow and fatalistic resignation; it is something much more profound in the essence of the teaching of Islam - a basic conviction that in the eyes of God all men, regardless of colour or class or economic condition, are equal. From this belief there springs an unshakable self-respect, whose deepest effects are in the subconscious, preventing the growth of bitterness or any sense of inferiority or jealousy by one man of another's economic advantage." (The Memoirs Of Agakhan, pg 332)