WOMAN UNDER NON-ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS

Figures and statistics come out everydaywith terrifying and painful facts, warning of an incoming destruction,that forces the contemporary man to reconsider his understandings andconcepts about sex, man, woman and social relations.

In order to place before the reader a testimony a testimony backed bystatistics and figures obtained from relevant studies, here are someexamples that speak of the terrible pictures of loss and tragedy underthe modern materialistic culture, concerning family problems, such asdivorce, adultery, illegitimate children and the misery of the familylife of the contemporary man and woman.

"Al-Qabas" newspaper in its issue of 11-7-1979, reported that:"12,713 housewives had fled their houses during the year before inJapan, on and average of 35 housewives a day.

The Japanese Policedisclosed these figures on Mother's Day, as a result of demands bychildren and husbands looking for their absconding mothers andhousewives.

Most of those disappearances were caused by familydisputes, cruelty of husbands and the like, the police said.

The number of housewives who elope with other men, deserting theirhusbands and children, is on the increase.

The police also added that400 housewives deserted their homes because of debts.

"Dr.

Homer, a Swede, when asked by the United Nations to study thestatus of women in Arab countries in 1975, announced: "It is theSwedish woman who should demand her freedom, as the woman in the Arabcountries has already reached the peak of her freedom under Islam".

She added "the Swedish woman tries these days to have this yearannounced as `The International Year of the Woman', and then declareanother year for the man, so that he may extract his rights from thewoman.