I had the opportunity to meet and have a long conversation with a professor who teaches the history of philosophy from an Islamic university in Indonesia. I was intrigued to hear about his social and political views on women. What are the reasons why women in predominantly Muslim states are more or less restricted in their civil rights and cannot use their freedoms like men? I understand that Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger and many other states dominated by Islamic law or Muslim religion restrict women’s ability to act within the social structure. there are important differences: Afghanistan is not the same as Egypt or Morocco, even Turkey after the revolution Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Since 1923, women have had greater freedom to study and work, at least in urban centres. Compared to the Western world, Europe, and America, however, the differences are remarkable, and yet feminist groups claim true equality.
The professor thought that we Westerners were starting from a false premise that led us to situations that hurt women. We needed to separate the feminine from the masculine gender, which could be considered equal. Differences from physiology to psychology are striking and not taken into account. A woman behaves differently from a man and reacts differently to social conditions. It is not true for Muslims that their duty is to reproduce or to be in the service of man. He noted that the majority of the Muslim world accepts divorce and that mistreatment of women is punished by either husband, father or brother, that maltreatment is more common in the West, and data on violence against women are much higher in percentages than Muslims. countries, something you never point out. He argued that women tend to develop an unstable character, which leads them to be inconsistent in human relations. They want security but they also want change and are not afraid to share a man with other women, just as they do not refuse to have multiple relationships if allowed. Western culture has repeatedly pointed this out, as stated in «.la donna e mobile” Rigoletto related to gave. Men tend to mate with as many women as possible because their sexual instincts dictate this, and they live in lingering tension when they see half-naked women in their own world, in reality or in the media. Only the punishment of the Criminal Code prevents them from attacking them and they are ready to accept anyone they want, even if they don’t show it. Even in your own world, it is you who choose and discriminate. The Muslim world strikes a balance between man and woman, a man is considered to have several women because if he has not started a fierce fight between men, women accept it because men are more jealous and react violently to male rivalry. to a better degree
“You are advocating a culture of slavery and domination,” I replied. If Western civilization has succeeded in establishing the mechanisms of equality, it is the conquest of Humanity itself. It is not true that they are different living things, that they are parts of the same species, and that although they are physiologically different, they can perform the same activities with the same efficiency. There is no reason to discriminate and the struggle for equality has been and still is long, but it even managed to impose the Christian religion, something I don’t appreciate in the Qur’an. The holy book of Muslims told me that this can be considered a religious belief, I am an agnostic and sometimes an atheist, but I do believe that Muslim culture, perhaps through religion, promotes greater equality and stability in relationships between men. and the woman you don’t have. We believe that women can have the capacity to do almost the same jobs as men, and this will be imposed in this way in even more socially backward Muslim societies, but their future development is not accompanied by the same paradigm. relations between men and women. The democracy you advocate will be more authentic in the Islamic world in the future. From there the conversation drifted in trivial directions with no possibility of agreement. And then I thought about it samuel hunting About the clash of civilizations.