The Reason Women Are Inferior

(Medina, Saudi Arabia) Female Saudi writer Suhaila Zeinul Abideen Hammad has penned several articles complaining about the unequal treatment received by women in the kingdom. In response, a column by Osama Ahmed Al-Subaie in today's Arab News displays the following.

Women are incomplete in our society. They will remain incomplete and will always be considered inferior. Their participation in literary clubs, journalism training courses, conferences and seminars would lead to them mixing with men.

This would open the door for seduction, a source of corruption. Women would then become shameless and coveted by men.

So there. In Saudi society, women are second-class citizens because they are a source of corruption. The same thinking is presumably prevalent throughout Islam.

Frankly, I believe the philosophy fails to give proper attribution to biological weaknesses in men. Rather than women being a source of corruption, it's the men who are incapable of managing the complexities of male-female relationships without being corrupted.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.