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To: LindyBill who wrote (467743)	1/26/2012 8:53:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793926

A lot of the social code in Islam that we object to was accepted practice in Medieval Christendom. We changed, they didn't. Yes and no. Even in medieval Europe, where marrying off a twelve year old (the minimum age for marriage under Roman and Norman law) would have been perfectly acceptable, we respected women and treated them better in law and custom than the Muslim world does today. The cult of the Virgin was one cultural form of respect for women; chivalry and courtly love was another. The idea that women were weak in mind and body, but had something fine and spiritual that men didn't, started in the Middle Ages. The Muslim world never had that idea, regarding women as either sex toys, brood mares or drudges. Only one form of woman is elevated in the Muslim world: the mother of sons. Her sons revere her -- and in practice, I understand that Egyptian families can often be quite matriarchal. In Egypt, the mother of a son is no longer known by her own name, but as Umm <name of son>, e.g. Umm Khalid if her eldest son is named Khalid.