men). While opponents may consider this unequal status, Hizb ut-Tahrir maintains: Women in the Khilafah are not regarded as inferior or second class citizens. Islam gave women the right to wealth, property rights, rights over marriage and divorce as well as a place in society. Very recently Islamists established a public dress code for women – the Khimar and Jilbab which promotes women to cover themselves up as "part of the well known attire of the dress code for Muslim women" based on "widely recognised Sunni sources". In Australia, HT generated attention in its defense of the right of a 26-year-old man to marry a 12-year-old girl in an ‘Islamic ceremony’ outside of Australian law (but with the girl's father's blessing), declaring that Australian law, "is not a basis for moral judgments. Something being illegal according to western law does not make it immoral". HT sources differ over whether dress for women is not a matter of choice. At HTB's 2003 annual conference, an HTB member warned the audience: Inevitably western attitudes are beginning to affect Muslim thinking. Sometimes Muslim women will say that they wear a headscarf as a matter of choice. ... A truly Islamic woman would say she wore her headscarf in obedience to the Creator whether the Creator gave reasons or not." However, three years later, HT Britain signed a statement in support of "a woman’s right to wear the veil" as a "human and religious right". In the organization itself, women are thought to comprise 10% of HT's membership, playing an "active role" in "intellectual and political work" such as conferences held by the UK women's section of HT, and following a dress code of jilbab (a loose dress), Khimar (headscarf) and socks, so similar it has been compared to a "uniform-like style". Capitalism, democracy, freedoms, and pluralism Capitalism "Capitalism" is defined by HT as a political system of democracy and freedom (a definition many critics of HT, especially leftists, regard as risible), not just as an economic system based on private ownership, and is frequently condemned by the party. Freedom of ownership is one of capitalism's freedoms, along with freedom of belief and opinion and "personal freedom". Capitalism is based on the idea of "the separation of religion from life", and supported by the "pillars" of democracy, "pluralism" (the recognition and affirmation of diversity and peaceful coexistence of different interests, convictions and lifestyles), "human