Take your pick: 11th century extremism or 21st century extremism

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'Mr Azhari, who vehemently denies accusations that he advocates child marriage, also wants to remove a proposed clause banning the trafficking of women. He said he was concerned it would be used to prosecute parents who marry off their underage daughters. The text now under consideration by the panel only bans slavery and the sex trade.
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They fear an impending setback to gains women achieved in recent years under Hosni Mubarak, the ousted president, whose efforts to polish the image of his authoritarian regime in western eyes led to an improvement of women’s rights in divorce and child custody cases.
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Known as “Suzanne’s laws” after the previous first lady who championed them, the legislation gave women access to a relatively quick no-fault divorce through the courts, cutting years of litigation during which a woman was neither married nor divorced, although her husband was entitled to take another wife. The laws also gave divorced women custody of their children until the age of 15 and allowed them to keep the family home for as long as they were raising children.
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Neither the Muslim Brotherhood of Mohamed Morsi, the president, nor the more hardline Salafis have articulated specific plans for changes to Egypt’s family laws. But the rhetoric filling the air is deeply conservative and largely hostile to the enhancement of women’s rights.

Amany Aboul Fadl, a member of the panel from the Muslim Brotherhood, said “Suzanne’s laws” would be reviewed and those that “benefited grassroots women” would be retained. She criticised the legislation as coming from a “100 per cent feminist mentality”.

“The rights of women after divorce are exaggerated to the extent that they are unfair to men, sometimes destroying their lives,” she said. “They extend women’s custody of children so they can take the marriage apartment. Men are robbed and women take everything.”'