A leading Muslim scholar from Egypt has given me the strangest circumstance for the death penalty that I've ever heard. Apparently Prof. Abdul Mouti Bayoumi has called for the death penalty for anyone caught smuggling a device that helps women fake their virginity. His reasoning behind this is that "fornication is a cardinal sin" according to Islam. Now, I have several questions for Prof. Bayoumi. 1. How many Playboys are in your possession? 2. How many bottles of Viagra are delivered to your doorstep every month? 3. Why are you so jealous of everyone else getting some action? Here's the simple facts, people have sex, it's what they do. It's easy to see why women in these areas want to hide that fact that they're not virgins if they're not married. Think about it; the people the Prof. Bayoumi is suggesting prosecuting are merely the people who ship this device in; who knows what would happen to a women if it was discovered that she fell for someone a little to hard back in high school or something. And yes, I know, this story is a little risque and I'm sure my mother will be thinking the absolute worst upon reading this (don't by the way). But honestly, I couldn't pass it up. Thanks to the BBC for this story.
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It seems you are not familiar with the "olden" days of long ago when virginity was a virtue. While I don't believe women should be put to death for using this device, I think you need to remember that all countries do not share in the "freedom of choice" and "make love not war" attitude. If you are going to travel the world for reporting purposes, you will need to strongly consider the other's point of view before condeming it.
ReplyDeleteI do take this into consideration, I one hundred percent see where this is coming from and I have nothing against the believe that virginity is a virtue. The thing I'm condemning is that fact that women are severely mistreated in the form of abuse and sometimes death due to the fact that they lost their virginity before marriage; and usually this is being done by people who hypocritically accept the double standard of "It's all good for guys to sleep around but if it's a woman they're a whore." Even if virginity is a virtue the value of human life should be more than that. What I'm looking down on is mistreatment of people, not the virtues that people hold.
ReplyDeleteWell put. I agree with you that the double standard should not exist. Quite frankly, I'm not sure where the "man should have harems and woman should be virgin" originated. Perhaps that could be something to research. I do know, however, that there are several countries that still consider women's lives less meaningful than men's. From a woman's point of view, EVEN WITH all the problems we have here in the U.S., it is a wonderful thing that I can work at a job I enjoy and enjoy being an "equal" in my marital relationship rather than a servant to the man.
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