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/^t/For more than a century in the Islamic world, the questions of what women should wear and how they should behave have been issues for debate by men. Women have no right to control their own lives, husbands and the number of children. Girls from poor families are sold at the age of fifteen to their future husbands and have to be obedient and faithful to them whatever happens. The man has the right to kill his unfaithful wife, but it is impossible the other way round. Women don't "have" a family, they "belong" to it. Their only role is that of a slave of her husband.