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From: hanan@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: Women in Islam
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Date: 28 Feb 90 16:55:17 GMT
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In Article 176 of soc.religion.islam:
>No body really can claim the opposit, after all men and women are physically
>and biologically different.  From physical point of view, it is quit obvious
>that men are superior to women.  From intelligent point we cannot really
>know that since we live in societies where male are dominant even in the west.
>From physcological view, we know that men and women concentrate on different
>part of the brain, make them better in some fields and worst in other fields.

Yes, men and women are physically and biologically different.  But how is
it obvious that men are superior to women in the physical sense? Scientific 
studies indicate that although men are perhaps stronger that women, men and
women have similar physical endurance and some studies seem to indicate 
that a women's physical endurance is greater.


>For instance, this fact make men better in areas involving Mathmatics, and
>women are emotionally stronger than men (that generally speaking and there
>are always exception.  This kind of exceptions exist for every vers of the
>Quran and usually explained in the Sunna or other Islamic litterature). This
>is my opinion and Allah know best.

I have to respond to this.  As a woman in computer science, I found the
above statement almost funny.     
You are trying to use the Quran as justification
for your opinion that women are inferior to men.  Now men do better in math
tests.  But this has nothing to do with intelligence.  It seems that most
societies teach that men are supposed to be better at math.  Women are told
that math is "not for them".  Women who overcome these sterotypes do just
as well in math as men.    


As for the rest of this article, others have done a good job in showing
that the Quran does not support the "women are inferior" hypothesis.


                    Hanan Lutfiyya