The treatment of women has been a very big topic since we started reading the book a few weeks ago. The more I read the more disappointed I find myself getting because I have only see men look at women as the role of the wife and the sexual providers. Women are disrespected a lot in the novel and as my fellow classmates said, “women are submissive and sometimes are degraded by men, but we missed to see really how important women are.” Exactly, I am very disappointed in how men have treated most of the women in their lives. They have treated all the women like dogs and have verbally abused them. In the quote before this it shows how Yasin expresses his views of women to him. Its as if all of the women in his life are just meant to have sex lives and be submissive and be treated like dogs. This to me is no justification for treating women as if they were second-class citizens. One should really learn how to treat things that are important in our lives with care. Apparently, Yasin isn’t the only one who thinks that women are pretty much second-class citizens with special privileges. In this website that I found it shows how woman's rights in Islam are a bit controlled. I know we say that we shouldn't say that they get treated with less respect because of how their culture is set up, but how do we know if things are just? How can we say if women are treated with respect and equal rights when our culture and the Muslim culture is so different?
Work Cited:
"Women in Islam." Islam For Today. Web. 08 Mar. 2010.
Mahfouz, Naguib. Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy). New York: Anchor, 1990. Print.
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