Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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desk. Take nothing but a one-way ticket to a strange
town. Could you do that? Could you also take away
the children?”
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By nature’s division, man was given authority
over woman. Now, if attempts are made to change
this division artificially, the consequences will be
as pictured in the above report. This beating of
women in their own homes is just one more
symptom of the malaise of modernity. Never
before has there been so many instances of male
violence against women as there are at present in
modern civilization. It is true that there were cases
of wife-beating in earlier periods, but these were
the exceptions rather than the rule, and occurred
mostly amongst the lower classes, who were poor
and uneducated. In modem times, even the upper
classes are no longer innocent on this score. What
was formerly considered uncivilized behavior is
now becoming a commonplace amongst so-called
civilized members of society. This is a direct
consequence of upsetting the natural balance of
daily living in the futile quest for unnatural
equality.
