Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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Fifty-year-old Mr. Hart was busy in the election
campaign, for which he had borrowed one million
dollars. During this time he quietly left for Miami
on May I to spend the weekend there. He spent one
day and one night with a 29-year-old actress, Miss
Donna Rice. An American newspaper,
Miami
Herald,
got an inkling of this, and brought out a
sensational story with this heading: “Miami Woman
Is Linked to Hart.”
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The news was given priority
coverage by radio, television, newspapers and
journals. Mr. Hart’s photographs along with Miss
Donna Rice began to appear on the pages of
newspapers. Wherever he went he was asked if he
had committed adultery. “He stood in the public
dock accused of adultery.”
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Had the
Miami Herald
published the news that in a
certain house Mr. Hart had spent the night with his
wife, no one would have cared. But when the news
broke of Mr. Hart’s spending a night with a woman
he was not married to, it caused quite a furor. This
incident is a clear indication that establishing sexual
relations with a woman, who is not one’s wife, is
against human nature. Had such an act not been
against human nature, the agitators would never
