Read this article in the papers today and thought that it was interesting enough to blog about. It's not so much that a woman has written a book about sex, nor the fact that Ms. Lootah is a Muslim woman in an Arab country, or that the book about sex is also related to Islamic teachings. It's actually the fact that she went about having her book approved by the Mufti (religious leader) before getting it published. Yet after all that, she still gets death threats. Not surprising that the threats are from conservatives though, they're just living up to their name.
“People have said I was crazy, that I was straying from Islam, that I should be killed,” Ms. Lootah said.
Somehow I think these people are just judging the book by it's cover. Now if the book did quote the Koran ("One of the themes of her book is the danger of anal sex and homosexuality generally, not because of AIDS but because they are banned by the Koran.") then how can she be straying from Islam? Yet it's the men who seem to break the rules - "In Saudi Arabia and other countries where the genders are rigorously separated, many men have their first sexual experiences with other men".
I, personally, think it's time people started accepting change in this world. That women aren't just going to stand behind in the shadows, or hide under their niqabs, and let their lives just past them by. That women are more valuable than some people make them out to be. If everyone wanted sons, sooner or later there won't be anymore women to give you the next generation. Most times, the best advice is from the very first woman you know, your mom!
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