I asked this question to Dr. Aziza al Hibri in a round-table discussion together with former Sen. Edgardo Angara, Philippine Star columnist and Carol P. Araullo who writes for Businessworld.
“Home”, was Dr. Al Hibri’s answer.
“Your home can be a paradise or hell depending on how the husband understands your dignity, your rights, and your value,” she said.
She said there are communities who believes that the man is the head of the family and they can strike the wife.
Al Hibri, the first Muslim woman to become a law professor in the United States and is professor emeritus of law at the University of Richmond, is the founder of Karamah, a Washington-DC based organization of American Muslim lawyers and law faculty focused on human rights and gender issues in the Muslim world.