Sunday, May 04, 2008

Misogyny Will Eventually Settle It

Who wins?



An academic storm is brewing in Australia as Imams criticize "an Islamic studies course they claim is too sexually explicit, promotes lesbianism and derides the Koran as misogynistic ... The course includes excerpts from The Perfumed Garden by Sheik Nafzawi, a book on Arabian erotica written in the 16th century and translated into English in 1886 that has been likened to the Indian Kama Sutra." The course, which is being taught at the National Center of Excellence for Islamic Studies, is featured in three universities and funded by federal government money. If only the course were about the Bible instead of the Koran and the Kama Sutra it would have been closed down by now.