Shabana:[There is one more reason why sharia is a tough law. As we Muslims are animals, we don't have self-control like human beings. If a girl is walking naked on the streets, a kafir may look at her curiously but may not jump on her. But our Muslim men will no be able to control themselves and it is a sure bet that the girl will be raped. Even by seeing the hands, legs or face of a woman, a Muslim man gets sexually aroused.]
Dear Shabana,
Let me acknowledge that you are one of my favorite writers. You have very original and penetrative thoughts. Yet, I have disagreed with your aim to denigrate the good name of 'animals' time and again.
Just consider the quoted section from your latest article. When a young girl walk on the street naked, definitely Muslims will, with much higher frequency, jump on her and rape her. But non-Muslim homo sapiens will also do the same albeit in lower frequency.
But consider a dog or any other animal. Although male dogs have a round-the-year urge to copulate, he will wait until the mating season for the female dogs arrive and wait for his chances. Female dogs walk around naked all round the year, mix with the males openly and play with them but the male dog would never sexually assult her until she gives the mating signal. This applies to all animals saveth homo sapiens.
Not only in sex, in most other aspect of life, animals on an average show a more civilzed and responsible behavior than the homo sapiens in general. Hence, I have stopped using terms like animal, beast, dog and monster etc that are in age-old usage to define numerous human failings. It's OK to use them had they been deserving but no beasts, dogs and non-human beings deserve them. To my mind, there is no better way to define a human failing by saying 'you are a bloody man'. I am quite in favor of giving the term man/homo sapiens a darogatory color, which it derserves most.
MA Khan
Editor, islam-watch.org
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