Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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observe the rules of old-fashioned morality is a clear
indication of the superiority of divine law over
man-made law.
A believer in divine law, who errs by entering into
an illicit sexual relationship, and contracting AIDS
in the process, will be considered to have deviated
from the principles of divine law. However, one
who belongs to western civilization and contracts
such a disease as the result of promiscuity will be
said to have shown the error of the principle of
western civilization itself. The former case proves
the error of a man while the latter case proves the
error of the principle of a civilization.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF UNNATURAL
EQUALITY
“No one who has ever known me can believe what I
did,” said a 35-year old American whose demeanor
suggested innocence and seriousness of mind. He
related how he had beaten the wife he loved,
choked her till she was unconscious, pushed her
face in the mud and held a kitchen knife to her
throat.
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“How could I have done that?” he now
wonders. “People know me as a good man. I own
