Numerous narratives and gender practices show that women occupy a weak position in the Islamic legal system. Women are portrayed as "submissive" to their husbands and families centered on a man. This paper aims to present the position of women in the criminal legal system of the Islamic community as well as the misinterpretation of verses of the Qur'an that put women in a significantly less favorable position compared to men. The basic problem when assessing the Islamic attitude towards women is the lack of distinguishing Islamic principles and practices from ethnic ones. By deliberately choosing Quranic verses and hadiths, they try to justify the crimes committed against women in ways that reproduce existing social inequalities. Gender-based violence takes many guises, and this paper will explore some forms. The most widespread category of crimes throughout the Islamic world are honor killings, which often have the blessing of the wider community, where women and girls are killed by their fathers or husbands because of love affairs or marriages that are not approved by their family members. Cultural norms and customs in patriarchal societies support the practice of female genital mutilation as a tool of social control over women, and in countries where it is practiced, it is justified as a traditional Islamic requirement to preserve the purity of women, which, apart from short-term and long-term consequences, often ends in death. Zina provisions also discriminate against women in several ways, especially in the way of proving the offenses they involve. The paper analyzes the issue of "apostasy" for which, although there is a widespread consensus when apostasy really exists, the lack of a single religious authority that would make a single decision valid for all Muslims resulted in a conflict of voices supporting or opposing Sharia punishment.