Woman Between Islam and Western Society
1. A Survey
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22.
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is
become as one of us, to know good and evil:
and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23.
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the
garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence
he was taken.
24.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the
east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a
flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the tree of life.
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This story, enshrined as it is in the pages of the
Bible, would have us believe that the cause of
Adam’s expulsion from a life of comfort and
happiness and his subsequent trials and tribulations
was Eve’s having yielded to temptation, and that
this was how the first man came to bear the burden
of Original Sin which according to Christianity was
to be shared by the entire human race.
This story has no basis whatsoever in fact, but it had
such a strong hold over the popular imagination
that it spread not only amongst the Jews and
