Mamdouh Bitar, George Banna

        Society establishes for itself a ladder of respect and contempt, the nature of which  subjec to the era in which a person lives, Wealth, for example, determines the type of respect, as does power and many other factors, Honor, for instance, means, in particular, elevation and high status, The concept of honor differs from one era to another, In the feudal era, honor was the exclusive domain of the feudal lords who were called nobles, In religious eras, lineage to the son of Abdullah monopolized the attributes of honor, such as the Sharif of Mecca! There is the honor of lineage of “Sayyid” Hassan Nasrallah, and there is the honor of lineage of Saddam Hussein, who, according to his own view, reached back to the prophets, What his noble lineage lacked was only a black turban, Lineage is read by the color of the turban, and lineage is determined by the color of the turban, The blackness of Nasrallah’s turban is an indication of his noble lineage, different from that of Naim Qassem, the bureaucratic employee with the white turban, In a discussion with the Lebanese lawyer Bushra al-Khalil, she tried to force her interlocutor to call Nasrallah “Sayyid” because of his lineage to one of the messengers.

There is no honor for what remains of humanity in the era of the feudal-religious partnership, nor is there any consideration for this remainder, and the status of this remainder was socially low, unlike the clergymen who were the highest in their baseness and contemptibility, and the highest prevented and still prevent any exposure to them, because they considered this exposure to be contempt and disdain for religion, i.e., these are the religion. For religion, like feudalism, there is a high place on the ladder of consideration, and for the clergymen practically the same status.

The capitalist era changed those considerations towards equality between women and men  in the law and in rights and duties, After the capitalist era, there were other eras that changed some aspects of the subject of consideration, All of this passed by the Arab peoples without much notice, as these peoples are still swimming in the swamp of considerations such as considerations related to shame, then considerations related to what is permissible and forbidden, The concept of shame was attached to the woman with a focus on its location in her private parts, which determined whether she was considered honorable or not, The honorable woman is the chaste one, although the concept of chastity applies to every human being, the male is not usually accused of deviating from the rules of chastity no matter what he does, knowing that chastity linguistically means adherence to the rulings of heaven, and does the man always adhere to those rulings? And what about the subject of chastity before the call to Islam, and did chastity have a place in the pre-Islamic era or in ancient times?

Many concepts are dominated by a thick and dense layer of fog, Here, it seems as if Aristotle’s saying that “wood is fire in potential” applies to women, because the burning of wood generates fire, and women are reduced, according to local concepts, to a body, and the body is reduced to a vulva, which has been transformed into a potential shame like Aristotle’s wood, The female is positioned by her nature and constitution around the vulva, and is considered an appendage of the vulva, She is a body and an entity of a vulva that possesses a body, and not a body with a vulva or possessing a vulva, Thus, she is born and created with threatened chastity, that is, she is created without chastity, She is an immoral being by nature and instinct, therefore she must be monitored, controlled, and custodianed.

The communities of this region are mired in piles of “garbage,” as Muhammad Saleh put it, Among the types of garbage is the hypocrisy that reflects a lack of intellect, Illicit sexual acts, which require the actual or imagined participation of a woman, as in the case of masturbation, are considered a disgrace attached to the woman, and even extend to her clan or family. Meanwhile, the righteous, i.e., the believers, are promised the gardens of heaven, where eternal life is primarily limited to male sexual pleasures, There is no mention in paradise of female sexual pleasures; in fact, a woman’s sexual pleasure is considered something ugly, “may God curse it.” She is inherently degraded and a disgrace by force, as they claim, These perceptions produce degrading insults in the patriarchal society, imbued with a feminine sexual character to violate the dignity of the woman deemed vulnerable to violation, There is the insult “son of a whore,” but not the insult “son of a whore,” for example!

We don’t know the true origin of these perceptions and insults, nor the corresponding texts and verses that are no different from insults, but rather worse than vulgar street insults, The paradox lies in the fact that these textual insults are considered sacred, despite being worse than street insults, Among these textual insults is the claim that women are deficient in intellect and religious understanding, Similarly, there are the issues of testimony, blood money, physical punishment, male guardianship, and the concept of women as property belonging to men. Honor killings are worse than street insults, and there is no practice more despicable and abhorrent than stoning for adultery, since adultery doesn’t exist, Consensual sexual relations are not adultery, and forced sexual relations are not adultery but rape, We have no record of a woman ever raping a man, The question remains: where did these supposedly sacred, legal insults come from, and why did these “street” insults target the woman’s body exclusively? Women are deemed worthy of contempt, For example, it has been said that a woman… A woman invalidates prayer like a black dog and a donkey!!

In general, it can be said that the legal-street insult was built on the assumption that the woman’s body carries a perception that places honor in her body, or more precisely in her private parts, It can also be said that the source of this perception was customs and traditions in partnership with religion and ancient faith, Although the agent in the present and now should be a product of the present and now, that is, the old should be considered invalid and out of service, reality proves that it has not lost its validity, because it represents a profitable investment for some, so it remained active, There is a class in the community or religious authority that benefits from dividing the community into two groups, the first being the class of female slaves and the second being the class of male slaves, who then dominate the society, which enslaves each other.

The enslaved person has a very personal taste regarding his path to happiness, There are those who feel happy by practicing sex within the framework of love, and there are those who feel happy within the framework of practicing sex by force, such as rape, The differences between the two categories go back to the degree of humanization, The closer the human being is to animality, the higher his level of happiness with force and rape, and the higher his level of humanization, the closer he is to sexual pleasure within the framework of love, in which practicing sex represents its highest form.

To justify the necessity of placing women in the category of concubines or servants, their status must be diminished, for example, by considering them deficient in intellect and religion, There is no equality with men in their testimony or in their blood money when they are killed, The blood money for a woman is half that of a man, and the blood money for a non-Muslim woman is half that of a Muslim woman, Mathematically, the blood money for a non-Muslim woman is considered a quarter of that of a man, Polygamy is legitimate, so the value of a wife becomes bankrupt and stagnant when there is polygamy, All of this is legitimized and promoted by the mujahideen of religion, the sheikhs, who deceive women with cheap tricks and degenerate lies. When a woman is kicked with shoes, she is told, “You, my sister, are the crown of my head, so I must slaughter you in defense of honor and to wash away the shame that has befallen the family or clan.”

The individual does not commit the crime of honor alone, but the entire community and all its authorities commit it with him, Rape is not only sexual, but also political, such as the rape of power by the dictator and the development of the rape of power into the rape of the entire society, There is economic rape through corruption in its various forms, and there is religious rape by applying the order to kill the polytheists, etc. How does this align with the principle of “To you your religion and to me my religion”? All forms of terrorism, rape, and war are intertwined on the arena of the woman’s body, especially between her thighs, Here, the woman is transformed into a war booty or a colony, Therefore, she must be devalued and distorted to justify guardianship over her, such as beating her when she refuses marriage, because she is originally a tool for marriage for pleasure and also paid (give them their wages), Then, all her rights are disregarded, for example, in inheritance, will, blood money, and even travel or leaving the house,Legally, she has three exits: from her mother’s womb, to her husband’s house, and then to her grave.

The crime is not limited to women, but also includes men, whom religion turns into murderous males and predatory beasts, whose sole concern is to wash away the shame of the “disobedient vulva.” If raping a woman is evil, then turning a man into a rapist male is a similar evil, and the one who violates dignity is as wronged as the one whose dignity is violated! The system of contempt for the individual practically includes men and women, i.e., humanity in general!