DMB
March 9, 2004, 07:19 AM
I found this article (http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/2472) about women in Iran very moving. I do sometimes wonder if there is something about islam that makes so many muslim men hate women.
Extreme religion always seems to end up in surreality:
One of Nafisi's students rewrote Austen's famous opening lines to Pride and Prejudice. "It is a truth universally acknowledged," she said, "that a Muslim man, regardless of his fortune, must be in want of a nine-year-old virgin wife."
Adult women's sexuality was to be hidden, yet Khomeini was prepared to countenance sex with female children. And with animals. In her memoir, Nafisi recalls one of her students studying Khomeini's writings in which he considered the problem of whether a man could eat the meat of a chicken he'd had sex with. He could not, Khomeini declared, but his neighbour two doors down could. "My father would rather I read this than Austen?" the student asked sardonically.
Extreme religion always seems to end up in surreality:
One of Nafisi's students rewrote Austen's famous opening lines to Pride and Prejudice. "It is a truth universally acknowledged," she said, "that a Muslim man, regardless of his fortune, must be in want of a nine-year-old virgin wife."
Adult women's sexuality was to be hidden, yet Khomeini was prepared to countenance sex with female children. And with animals. In her memoir, Nafisi recalls one of her students studying Khomeini's writings in which he considered the problem of whether a man could eat the meat of a chicken he'd had sex with. He could not, Khomeini declared, but his neighbour two doors down could. "My father would rather I read this than Austen?" the student asked sardonically.