Islams Reformers

etween 40 and 70, two out of 3 deaths of heart-disease are men.
Ulcer, cancer, pneumonia and tuberculosis are more common
among men. Women’s cancers, for example, of womb or breast,
are more easily cured than men’s cancers of lungs, stomach or
prostate.
“May be women catch many more kinds of diseases; but their
diseases are less mortal. It is found out that men and women more
easily catch 245 and 120 out of some 365 kinds of dangerous
diseases, respectively.”
On Rajab al-fard 5, 1404 (April 18, 1983), Hürriyet, a daily
published in Istanbul, reported: “According to the official results
of the census, the ratio of widows to widowers in Istanbul is 17:4.”
This means that the number of widows is four times greater than
that of widowers.
Another evidence showing that women are more numerous is
that there is an enormous number of women who live on selling
their honesty. It is obvious that such women are numerous
especially in advanced countries. If a married or single man who
cannot help having intercourse with such a woman marries her and
spends his money for her home instead of paying it to her for
dishonesty, will it be bad? Religion reformers or progressives
cannot say, “It won’t be bad, it will be good,” for they want women
to remain in a status that would always keep them prone to
supersedure. Those who dislike marrying more than one must be
those who are afraid that not many women will remain for them to
amuse themselves with.
If they say, “Man’s view of the women with whom he has
intercourse illegitimately and his view of his own wife are
different,” they in fact regard those women who work
illegitimately as lowly people who have lost their value. For this
reason, they consider the sexual relations of a woman of high rank
a much more shameful deed, a scandal.
Women are led to prostitution out of necessity, need or
seduction. It cannot be thought of for man because he does not
earn but pays money. This also shows that woman cannot be equal
to man.
No matter how pretty she is, a woman does not give up trying
to be attractive for man. Those with diminished bashfulness turn
womanhood into a commercial material. It is seen that woman is
more timid than man. This timidity is not because their lust is
little, but because they are more capable of concealing their
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