Chapter 6 entitled “Women and Shariah” is an exhaustive study of the man- woman or the husband and wife equation; and redundant to add that “the husband is always the master”. A woman is wickedest thing. And “when excited, she is a hundred times more passionate than man… A woman is “mom ki naak” (white hot tip of the candle), “balki raal ki pudiya” (a tight little packet of resin), “balki barood ki dibiya” (in fact a packet of explosives). If she is brought near a spark (of temptation) it will explode. She is defective in reason as well as in faith. And by nature she is crooked. (p.289) Which is why the husband has the power the absolute, unconditional power to exercise talaq for which he is not accountable to anyone on earth – to throw the wife out by just uttering the word talaq. (p.292). The chapter is replete with hundreds of examples of talaq, and every time the husband stands victor and superior.

From “The World of Fatwa’s” by: Arun Shourie, Publisher: ASA Publication, Reviewed by: Harindra Srivastava

As far as pitying women in Islam, that is really somewhat tough to do. Even in the West, more and more muslim women prefer the traditional dress of covering all the body and head; many in fact publically defend the restrictions placed on them. They defend the lesser status of women in Islam by trying to retrofit some biological explanation to coincide with their beliefs. Recently heard a woman talk about the right and left hemispheres of the brain corresponding to the way women respond (i.e. intuitively) and therefore lacking in judgement.

I remember an incident in Jordan when talking with a Palestinian man who occasionally went to India for business. He told me Indian women had too many rights and that the men were wimps. I asked him why he said that, to which he replied that when he tried to rent the top portion of a house, the houseowner said he would get back to the palestinian after consulting with his wife. According to the Palestinian man, the home and the wife belonged to the man, therefore no consultation was necessary.

There is obviously a fundamental difference in the value system Islam possesses from the rest of the world.

Pity the women in Islam – you have to really feel for them.

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