David W. Lincoln
2008-02-11 20:49:58
Leon Uris, in his novel, “Exodus” unerringly puts his finger on what ails the Muslim world.
After the American nurse, Kitty Fremont, arrives in Palestine (at the time), once a week she and the head of the Youth Village would go to the Arab village next to it. The mukhtar of the village wanted to talk to her about what was troubling him, but he concluded that he couldn’t say what was troubling him to a mere woman.
The price was the villagers being displaced, he and others dead, and the village destroyed.
As long as truth is dependent upon various variables, as looks to be the predominant view in the Muslim world (especially Arabia) – then women will suffer. For the rest of us, life will be less than what it ought to be.
