Islamic Neurology
Yemeni cleric Abd al-Majid al-Zindani explains all. Women cannot talk and think at the same time. This is a fact based in science, as illustrated by the American scientific journal TIME, which is haram, but never mind that, and because they talk so much, therefore … MEMRI:
“Allah said, with regard to women bearing witness: ‘If two men are not available, then a man and two women, such as you choose as witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her.’ Some heretics - communists and other atheists - ridiculed [this verse], saying: How come a man’s testimony equals that of two women? They used this to mock [the Muslims].
“The Muslims used to respond that women are subject to menstruation, when their endurance and mental capacity for concentration are diminished. When a woman witnesses a killing or an accident, she becomes frightened, moves away, and sometimes even faints, and she cannot even watch the incident. [...]
“The American Time magazine, in its July 31, 1995 issue, published this picture from research about the brain functioning of men and women. This is the ma… This is the female brain, and this is an image of the male brain. What do we see? We find that in the case of women, this area… And there is another here…
“Two areas in a woman’s brain are activated when she talks. As we can see, there are many centers of speech in a woman’s brain. There is a center in each lobe, while in the case of a man, there is only one center, here. The opposite center does not operate during speech, because it is busy remembering.”
“Both men and women have centers for speech and for memory. In the case of men, the center for speech is here, while the center for memory is here. When a man talks, his center for speech is active, and when he remembers something, his center for memory is active. On the other hand, when a woman wants to talk, she puts both centers into action. This may give us an explanation why women are more talkative.
“What is the outcome of this? When a woman talks, she uses the part of the brain that contains the memory, because in the case of women, both centers function for speech and memory. So when a woman talks, she might use the part of the brain containing the memory for talking - and that’s it, the data is lost.
“Therefore, if we need the testimony of women in cases pertaining to human lives, property, honor, or the stability of justice, we must take into consideration this fact of life in the nature of women.”
The imam raises some fascinating points. I would hold, for example, that my wife has a sharp memory for things I have done wrong and ridiculous things I have said … remembering even things that did not happen … but has little memory of anything that would argue in my favor. She is not so talkative. I, on the other hand, talk quite a bit. Although, as the imam illustrated, I have independently functioning speech and memory centers, the wife claims I can’t remember anything. This suggests a somewhat more complex picture than his reading of the scientific findings in TIME magazine. Anyway, what that imam probably needs to do is find which part of the female brain controls yelling at men, and finger-wagging, because I’ve noticed Arab women do a lot of that, burkha or no burkha.
Topics: Islam, husbands and wives, science, sexism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:52 am on Wednesday, December 17, 2008
4 Responses to “Islamic Neurology”
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December 17th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Sounds like that imam needs brain surgery himself.
December 17th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
The women have that imam exactly where they want him. Heh.
December 18th, 2008 at 3:19 am
“I would hold, for example, that my wife has a sharp memory for things I have done wrong and ridiculous things I have said … remembering even things that did not happen … but has little memory of anything that would argue in my favor.”
I think you and I might have accidently married the same woman.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Woman are scrutable? Awesome!
Cheers