George Banna, M. Bitar:
We do not find it necessary to elaborate on the rhetorical statements aimed at justifying the pursuit of equality between men and women, as equality is a self-evident and civilized matter, Despite this, women in this region are still burdened by the clash between ancient heritage and modernity, Women are still traditionally considered servants in the house during the day and slaves in bed at night or whenever the man desires,While modernity has enabled women to practice men’s professions, meaning they have become teachers, doctors, ministers, army commanders, and so on, they have nevertheless remained vulnerable to the violation of their dignity, for example, through polygamy and similar concepts and practices that diminish their human rights and turn them into commodities to be bought and sold in official marriage contracts, and not only in other forms of slavery such as the slavery of what is called temporary marriage or Misyar marriage and others of about 16 types of slavery.
Women are still ostracized, rejected, and considered deficient in intellect and religion, and a corrupter of prayer, They are controlled by a sick, neurotic, male mentality that distorts them and diminishes their social and life role, turning them into an “object” for marriage and procreation, There is no recognition of their sexual needs, which are monopolized by men. Therefore, they are circumcised based on the mistaken belief that circumcision modifies their sexual needs, Where is the logic or right in modifying their sexual needs? Why isn’t the male’s sexual need modified by castration, for example? Here, religious men insist on securing the male’s sexual needs through polygamy, which supposedly fulfills his sexual needs when one of his wives is menstruating, even though intercourse with a menstruating woman is possible, as narrated by one of the Mothers of the Believers, The monopolization of sexual needs by men is considered a kind of male neurosis that negates the humanity of women and of men as well, and negates love, turning it into an animalistic practice.To defend polygamy and other disastrous practices, a group of pseudo-men of this world and religion claim that, statistically, polygamy is not that disastrous, that it is very rare and limited to a few isolated cases and to a few segments of society!!!!!!, which constitute 30% of marriages in rural Damascus, and the spread of polygamy in Upper Egypt may be similar. Therefore, it is said that this small minority cannot cause a significant social imbalance, despite the fact that polygamy is a debilitating phenomenon because it is animalistic, in addition to the impossibility of being just between wives, as the verse says, “Marry those that please you of women,” etc.! Furthermore, achieving justice does not justify polygamy, and polygamy is not a marginal phenomenon, as the percentage of 30% is not marginal, and even if the percentage is marginal, it does not justify the insistence of the patriarchal sheikhly system on polygamy, which is permitted in the articles of the Personal Status Law, and which represents an animalistic, non-social state, meaning that it deprives those who practice it of their social and human nature.
Some believe that polygamy expresses a state of suffocating schizophrenia of the principle of equality, because there is no polyandry as demanded by Ms. Nadine Al-Budair,We see that polygamy represents a legitimate privilege to practice bestiality, and whatever its statistical status, it remains antisocial and despised of humanity in general and of men as well, who are considered disturbed and psychologically ill, even if they are forced to be satisfied with one wife, Even the one wife remains deprived of dignity by a masculinity that is very different from manhood.
