Re: Menses and restrictions on women (merged)
No, this is their thinking. Since the Quran refers to women in menses as "unclean" and since you are prohibited from fasting in an "unclean" state also mentioned in the Quran, then the logical connection between the two separated verses in the Quran is that a woman with menses cannot fast.
Why did God not mention this directly when He gave examples in the Quran of when one is not allowed to fast, and why we have to make this jump in logical connections between two versus who knows?
What I'd like to know is whether the same arabic word "unclean" is used in the two separate versus.