Calling All Women and the Men Who Love Them
by Kyle-Anne Shiver • December 11, 2008
I’ve had the flu since Thanksgiving, so my brain might not be back to full strength. But I simply could not resist commenting upon something a faithful reader sent me this morning. Perhaps he knew this particular bit of news from one of our esteemed mullahs would be just the proper amount of kick to get me out of my sickbed.
It seems that an Islamic cleric has now demonstrably proved that women (Yes, ladies, all of us!) cannot talk and remember at the same time. He claims this is why Allah — in his great wisdom — demanded that the testimony of 2 women are required to equal the testimony of a single man.
Here’s an excerpt:
Yemenite Cleric Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani Presents “Scientific” Proof that Women Cannot Talk and Remember Simultaneously |
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Following are excerpts from an interview with Yemenite cleric Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani, which aired on Iqra TV on October 23, 2008: Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani: Allah said, with regard to women bearing witness: “If two men are not available, then a man and two women, such as you choose as witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her.” Some heretics – communists and other atheists – ridiculed [this verse], saying: How come a man’s testimony equals that of two women? They used this to mock [the Muslims]. The Muslims used to respond that women are subject to menstruation, when their endurance and mental capacity for concentration are diminished. When a woman witnesses a killing or an accident, she becomes frightened, moves away, and sometimes even faints, and she cannot even watch the incident. [...] The American Time magazine, in its July 31, 1995 issue, published this picture from research about the brain functioning of men and women. This is the ma… This is the female brain, and this is an image of the male brain. What do we see? We find that in the case of women, this area… And there is another here… Two areas in a woman’s brain are activated when she talks. As we can see, there are many centers of speech in a woman’s brain. There is a center in each lobe, while in the case of a man, there is only one center, here. The opposite center does not operate during speech, because it is busy remembering. Both men and women have centers for speech and for memory. In the case of men, the center for speech is here, while the center for memory is here. When a man talks, his center for speech is active, and when he remembers something, his center for memory is active. On the other hand, when a woman wants to talk, she puts both centers into action. This may give us an explanation why women are more talkative. What is the outcome of this? When a woman talks, she uses the part of the brain that contains the memory, because in the case of women, both centers function for speech and memory. So when a woman talks, she might use the part of the brain containing the memory for talking – and that’s it, the data is lost. Therefore, if we need the testimony of women in cases pertaining to human lives, property, honor, or the stability of justice, we must take into consideration this fact of life in the nature of women. |
Now, in my own esteemed wisdom, I am forced to conclude that this type of whacked-out rationale is the precise reason why these folks remain trapped in the 7th century, unable and unwilling to move forward.
This reasoning actually reminds me of the revered spiritual mentor of Barack Obama, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who postulated before the National Press Club last spring that black youngsters cannot learn in the “white” system. Black children, claimed the Reverend, are “wired” differently than white children. Black children, Wright proclaimed, cannot sit still in a classroom and must be free to move around and explore and touch everything in their environments in order to learn. Is it any wonder, then, that the Reverend holds the Islamic religion in such high esteem? They seem to think very similarly, if one can call this gibberish “thinking.”
But never fear! Do not despair. Whenever I’m tempted to roll over and die from the frustration of it all, I remind myself of the ever-stalwart, brave, persistent men and women of our American Armed Forces fighting this destructive lunacy on our behalf — around the world even as I write this from the safety of my sickbed.
Once again, a 15 year old girl has given us a video that reminds us of the watchful, duty bound soldier. His fidelity to American ideals lives and breathes and brings truth and dignity to a world gone mad. Enjoy this tribute and be thankful. Be very, very thankful to be an American.
And whatever you do, do not give up.
