Letter: Women do not enjoy social equality under Islam
(02/17/03 5:00am)
I was disgusted to read Hamza Aziz's sugar-coated Feb. 12 column, entitled "Hajj--a manifestation of human equality." It was a good column, except for the fact that it mentions "social equality inherent in Islamic ethics." I cannot believe Aziz had the gall to mention such a phenomenon, considering the fact that all Islamic countries share a social inequality: brutality and neglect toward women. Here Muslims will generally get out their Qur'an and start pointing to the verses dealing with women, arguing that even though a woman is half a man, nowhere in the Qur'an was a particular type of brutality mentioned.