I could now finally be a true feminist, not a confused and constantly apologetic Muslim feminist. I didn’t have to make excuses for why Allah gives a girl half the inheritance her brother gets or why in a court of Sharia a woman’s testimony is worth half of a man’s or why Mohammed said women are deficient in intelligence. I could happily denounce all that misogyny without feeling scared that I might be punished in some afterlife. I could proudly say to myself and my daughter, you are worthy. You are second to none.
