The Onus Of Safeguarding A Man's Morality Is Always On A Woman!

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 27 April 2024 Regardless of what a woman will wear Man has an incorrigible habit to stare Dorothy Parker A young Moroccan woman was banned from travelling due to her appearance on a blind dating show wearing a short skirt on a dating show. Many Moroccan women say they are terrified of the fallout (Courtesy, NAI, April 24). The holier-than-thou custodians and crusaders of false and warped morality in Islam will pounce upon this young woman for wearing a short skirt but would love to ogle at a scantily-clad (even better, if she's sky-clad !) woman. Why's Islam so obsessed, nay paranoid, about what a woman should wear in public? It's her choice whether she wants to wear a mini, micro skirt, a fig-leaf or even go au naturel. In Islam, a woman's modesty or immodesty is directly linked to a man's lustfulness or his 'saintliness.' Let me elaborate on it. If she's properly dressed (better, if fully veiled!), men will have no carnal desires. But if she's improperly dressed, Satanic desires will plague them (men)! To cut the matter short, a woman has to dress up in a way that she doesn't arouse a man. Alas, the onus of safeguarding a man's morality and modesty is always on her. If a man is so priapic and sexually so fragile, he'll invariably ravage a woman even if she's wearing decent clothes. Why should a woman be held responsible for a man's flings and sexual capers? Men are generally lewd by nature. And if you don't approve of the word 'lewd', let me say, seldom, if ever, men are indifferent to feminine charm and beauty. Modesty, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholders. Segregating men and women and imposing all sorts of stultifying restrictions on women will not allow a universal template for morality and modesty to emerge. Rapes in all societies, communities, faiths, races and countries have seldom been linked to women's (read victims) clothes. Innumerable women in India's hinterland are raped every day. Do village women roam around wearing G-strings and thongs to attract and arouse the rapists? Was Nirbhaya, Jyoti Singh Pandey, scantily-clad on the night of December 16, 2012 when she was brutalized on a bus in Delhi? All religions were human constructs and men (gender specific men) laid down the rules and regulations. Men attributed their inherent sexual waywardness to poor women and called them Nark ka Dwaar, Dar-e-Dozakh or Door to hell. Let women wear whatever they want to. Men must know how to control their salivating tongues and other organs. ----- A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/onus-safeguarding-morality-woman/d/132209 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism