In short the answer would be being born as a woman in a Muslim country . I experienced Islamic laws first hand and saw how awful and soul crushing they were to women . My country of birth did not have a proper domestic violence law because the Quran allows men to beat their wives . My neighbours husband used to beat her every night and I could hear her whimpering in their backyard and asking God for help . Little did she know her husband was doing what he was doing with full blessings of the Quran . I heard of polygamy cases where women were left blindsided when their husbands just randomly announced they had a whole family in a different city all along who they had kept hidden . I heard of men showing up to the house with random women in tow , forcing their first wife to attend their second wedding etc . No matter what any Muslim woman says no one likes to share their husband with someone . Divorce was another complicated matter . Men can divorce their wives by saying talaq three times . This is just a mockery of marriage in my opinion . So many men would hold this as a sword over their wives head and threaten to divorce over the most minor things because getting a divorce wasn ' t difficult for them at all . Women on the other hand needed to go to court to get a divorce and were often denied . In Islam if a woman gets divorced and wants to remarry her former spouse , she has to marry sleep with another man . I saw women having to go through this when their husbands would say talaq , talaq , talaq out of anger or during a fight but later regreted it . Their wives were left to face the consequences by having sex with someone they didn ' t want to however had to because they wanted to keep the family together didn ' t want the divorce . Inheritance laws in Islam were too rigid . I saw cases where a man ' s daughter would really benefit from getting more inheritance but this wasn ' t allowed . In Islam if a man has only daughters , they get some of his wealth but the rest is distributed to the male family members . I saw cases where a man had a bad relationship with his brotherscousinsnephews and wasn ' t in contact with them . When he died they showed up to claim his property because he only had female children and thus his male family members were also heirs to his wealth . The hijab is a difficult concept . I grew up Muslim and I dress modestly due to my upbringing but the way hijab was presented to me was as an antirape shield . I felt this made the men around me entitled to my body when I wasn ' t dressed according to their standard of modesty . They felt that women who didn ' t cover up were fair game to be harassed . I saw countless tv ads where a woman complained about getting unwanted attention and sexual comments when she went out without the hijab . Then a friend gave her a burqa to wear after which these problems went away . This just taught me that men had the right to mistreat me if they felt I wasn ' t modest . There is a reason why so many Muslim feminists are Western Muslimah ' s , why Western Muslimah ' s celebrate hijab day and talk about Prophet Muhammad being the world ' s first feminist . Life for Muslimah ' s under actual Islamic law is bleak . Most women accept it as fate because it ' s in Islam and since Islam is correct , this treatment must be correct . However I couldn ' t . I wanted more . I had a Sahih Bukhari translation in my house and I read bits and pieces of it out of curiosity . Let ' s just say I was less than impressed . I still remember a hadith about what to do when a mouse falls in cooking oil . I couldn ' t believe such an important and holy text had such trivial details . Some of the hadith were plain weird and seemed like out of another universe , perhaps due to the Arab norms and changing times . Then I heard the details of how the hadith were collected which made me laugh . How can we believe something that was collected 200 years after the Prophet and by a guy who wasn ' t even from the same area as him . I read about the details of the Sahaba ' s life . It read like a Shakespearean tragedy , typical power struggle between families , wars , backstabbings and blood shed . This is how people who were directly trained by Muhammad were like and if his teachings couldn ' t help them , what good could they do for me a person who knows him through fabricated stories . Then there are the important details which Islam doesn ' t focus on . For a religion which asks you to pray five times a day , there were so many variations in how to pray . Islam never outlined a proper method of salat . In fact entire sects have been created due to difference of opinion on method of prayer . If Islam is a complete code of life why doesn ' t it tell us how to elect a government and run it ? Yes I know about the 4 righteous caliphs but there were variations in their elections and there was huge in fighting between different factions who opposed how they got elected and ran their affairs . 34 caliphs were murdered , Abu bakar faced wars and defectors since day 1 . Islam ' s first schism into ShiaSunni is a result of disagreements over this issue . Islam doesn ' t tell us how to run an economy . Interest is banned , welfare should be given to the poor and zakat and jizzyah are there but we can all agree these are extremely primitive methods to run an economy . Even Muslim ulema ' s haven ' t been able to come up with a parallel economic system which would be compatible with the modern world . Islamic banking is a huge scam and there are too many disagreements on it . The Quran is an interesting case . I ' ve heard from people it ' s a good book , Arabs that is . However I have no way to confirm this because I ' m not an Arab . God ' s last book which you are supposed to believe is true because its a linguistic miracle is inaccessible to me because of a language barrier . Yes , I read it in English but we all know Muslims tell you to read it in the original language to really understand it . Well how am I supposed to do that ? Isn ' t this a failure of the Quran that its not accessible to billions of people around the world because of its language . How many people have the means or resources to learn Arabic ? How many can actually manage to learn it ? I know people who tried learning Arabic for years but couldn ' t master it because it is a difficult language . The true miracle would have been if the Quran sounded just as nice in English , Japanese , Sawahili etc . like it does in Arabic but that ' s not the case . Then there ' s the case of timely revelations in the Quran . How someone approached Muhammad with a problem and God sent an ayah to answer him or how Muhammad had an issue with his wives and God sent him an ayah to answer his problems . It all just seemed very very convenient . So many things in the Quran deal with Arab norms of that time and seem useless to someone from Japan or Africa or South America . There ' s a lot of unnecessary information there like the Surah about Abu lahab . Imagine the lines wasted in God ' s final message to mankind on cursing a random dude who quarrelled with Muhammad .