ISLAM

CHAPTER III
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.
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'When we see the thousands of miserable women
who crowd the streets of western towns during the
night, we must surely feel that it does not he in
western mouth to reproach Islam for its polyg imy.
It is bett( r for a woman, happier for a womin, more
respectable for a woman, to live in Mahommedan
po yg imy, united to one man only with the
, legitimate
child in her arms surrounded with respect than to be
seduced, cast out into the streets perhap-. with an
illegitimate: child outside the pale of law unsheltered
and uncared for, to becone victims of any passer-by,
night after night, rendered incapable of motherhood,
despised of all."
Dr. Annie Peasant.
Even the vilest opponent would hot have dared
to utter such shameful opinions about the life and
character of Moslem women as has been done by
Mr. Devonian in his Modem Mentality. It is simply
an evidence how far the pretensions of a quack
religious reformer can go and how far literary
prostitution can blind a man as to the truth of things.
The queer and eccentric perception of Mr. L,evonian
that has produced
this sham and scandal is exceedingly
preposterous, and the results of which will
shock even the deliberate and conscious blackmailer.
He has pointed out that the Holy Quran permits
polygamy and divorce to such an extent that renders
the life of Moslem ladies a veritable hell and their
character a will of their male folk. He has also tried