Woman Between Islam and Western Society
5. Position of Woman in the Islamic Shari‘ah
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When the rot of perversion sets in at home, the
whole of society is affected and, ultimately, it is
the entire nation which has to bear the brunt of it.
The only reason for this widespread moral
degeneration is the violation of the sanctity of
marriage, which has come to be regarded as an
unwelcome bond.
WOMEN IN POSITIONS OF POWER
A film called
Kisses for My President,
made in
Hollywood in 1964, tells the story of a married
American woman who is elected the U.S. President.
She almost immediately becomes pregnant and
finds herself faced with so many problems because
of this that she decides to leave the presidential
home and go and live in her own home. Finally she
resigns from the office of president. Even the
modern world still finds it unimaginable that a
woman should be given a high government office.
In a poll taken in 1972, the majority of American
voters said that they would rather have a black man
than a woman as president. The idea of a woman
president was ridiculed. Someone joked: “When the
lady president delivers her child, the hospital
