Woman Between Islam and Western Society
3. Western Woman
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The crucial point, however, is that a difference is
not a deficiency. As one biologist put it: “We are all
human beings and in this sense equal. We are not,
however, the same.”
AT WAR WITH NATURE
In practice, men still have the upper hand. The
cause is not social conditioning, as feminists would
have us believe. It is wholly biological and
psychological. It is the biological factor which — we
are forced to conclude after 100 years of feminist
struggle — is the stumbling block in according
women an
equal position
(that is, in the outside
world) with men. It is the cruelty of nature rather
than the cruelty of society which is to blame. Now
that this has been established, the more militant
among the feminists have started demanding that,
in the womb itself, the science of eugenics should be
applied to changing the genetic code in order to
create a new biological system which will in turn
produce a new breed of women. They maintain
that, in this way, the male-dominated society could
be replaced by one in which the sexes are equal in
ability and performance. This suggestion is rather
