To the Editor:

On this occasion when we are celebrating Women’s History Month, I, a mother of four children, a medical and a master’s student want to let the world know that it is Islam that liberated women 1,500 years ago. It was Islam that gave women right to inherit, right to remarry, right to divorce, right to work, right to seek education, right to vote — rights that in the West may have been recognized only a few decades ago.

The critics have been active in pointing out what they perceive to be negative teachings of Islam. One of these accusations is the practice of wearing the hijab.