It's worth noticing that while Europe was stinking to high heavens, the Arab civilisation invented the soap.
One of many, many book I started reading and then abandoned after only a few pages in recent months was Women and Sexuality in Muslim Countries, a collection of essays, which I tried months before meeting Sultana. (I wrote more about her today, but I'm sober again so I can't stand looking at it now. Maybe the next time?)
There something obvious was explained: by and large women are treated like 2nd rate citisenz throughout the Arab world, but it's precisely because Islam recognises women's sexuality as the dominant one, that we, the poor men, need to protect ourselves from...
Women, they say, are "fitna" (an arabic word for chaos and such). Women and power always go together, they knew that well. That's why so many kalifat's and what have you, harem's an' all. Control the women and you control the men too. Well... Islam had some seven centuries to find a way around some of the more stupid Christian dogmas, no?
We, the silly & confused men are really like plankton to women. Women are sperm-wails, really. What chances do we have? The persistant ones will always get us.
Post je objavljen 13.05.2008. u 20:42 sati.