But that leads me to another question. :-}
God given rights are the bedrock of American history, culture, and jurisprudence and those God given rights are what seperates the United States of America from the marxists, communists, trotskyites and other assorted democrats. :-}.
Are rights in Islam granted by the creator or by man? In theory of course.
Islam teaches that rights are endowed by the creator, not by legislative assemblies that can then withdraw those rights. The first and foremost basic right is the right to life. The Qur’an says:
"Whosoever kills a human being (without any reason like) man-slaughter, or corruption on earth, it is thought he had killed all mankind." (5:32)
A woman's chastity is also explicitly protected in the Qu'ran. Islam has categorically forbidden the primitive practice of capturing a free man to make him a slave or to sell him into slavery.
And the Qu'ran lays out rights for the destitute and poor as well, and immediately after the verse in the Holy Qur’an which has been mentioned in connection with the right to life, Allah speaks of a duty to save every human life.
So there is a tension between freedom and duty that the Qu'ran lays out as mandated by God.