Woman Between Islam and Western Society
2. Woman in Society
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Yusuf Islam. Asked by a Jewish woman how he
intended to deal with the problem of Islam’s
“degradation” of women, he said that he had not
actually made a study of women’s status in Islam,
but that for his own part, he had, since his
conversion, asked his mother to come and stay with
him and that he loved looking after her. His
relations with his wife had also considerably
improved.
In its assessment of the status of women, the
western mind has made the same error as was
made by ancient man: it has formed opinions based
on irrational beliefs. This accounts for latter-day
distortions of thought regarding women in the
advanced western countries and for the resultant
grave distortion in the concept of women.
WOMEN IN MODERN CIVILIZATION
Where modern western man fell deeply into error,
was in his blind acceptance of the concept of the
equality of the sexes without giving due
consideration of what equality — in its best sense —
ought to mean, or what in practice it entails.
According to modern thinking, giving equal status
