that's the most shallow understanding of the middle east I've ever seen*-Its way more complex than that: attitudes to women were, are, and will always be complex and varied: from ethnicity to ethnicity, and even (with the Arabs), from tribe to tribe, sociological station, and even personal interpretation of Islam (if you lived after the 7th century). hence you cannot say that it was always like that-ever.**
*I dunno about India-so I won't say a word.
**Historians have written books about the Arab and middle eastern social climate (e.g. the colege book my grandfather handed down)
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