It is confirmed that women have 30% more nerve fibers (corpus callosum)
connecting the right and left hemispheres of the brain than do men. Estrogen
(the female hormone) actually increases nerve cell inter-connections both
within the hemispheres and between them. Hence, women have greater
communication between right and left brains resulting in superior language
fluency (speech) and transfer of sensory data input. This allows her to multi-
track both thought and speech simultaneously at different levels.
Furthermore, because of her domestic focus on social welfare, she comes to
very quick and accurate intuitive assessments of human motives, intentions
and needs regarding the nature of social relations in her environment.
Upon severing this anatomical channel of communion, both cerebral
hemispheres remain isolated and unaware of the other to the point of
complete dissociation. A person with a severed corpus callosum will even
deny that the left side of his body belongs to him. Thus, any censorship of
women can only result in an analogous division and denial within the ummah
and cause disunity—bearing in mind the many prophetic references to the
ummah as one body. Thus, I posit that the largest sects in Mohammad’s
ummah are those of men and women. The manifestations of this
phenomenon are the schools of reactionary feminist conceit and male
chauvinism that now suborn piety.
With few exceptions, a generation after the Mothers of Islam Arabs censored
women fearing her natural capacities; considering it foolish even to educate
her. But only man reduces to foolishness what Allah ordains otherwise, and
this, as we have demonstrated previously, is accomplished by means of
impressive ignorance and/or pretentiously pious arrogance. As a result – with
the exception of wealthy Ottoman Turks for example^48 – Muslim women
became isolated behind protective veils of taboo and learned to submit to
tyranny according to traditions that denied both her free-will and
preordained intelligence. Her prodigious instincts remained confined to the
mundane and were utilized for the advancement of her children if not herself.
She learned to become the superlative consort for as long as charms allowed,
after which she retired to the peaceful futility of patronized servility.
Remaining ignorant with gifted aptitudes underutilized, she was all but
forgotten except for the sincere and obligatory platitudes given to an honored
48
Asli Sancar, Ottoman Women: Myth and Reality , The Light Inc., N.J., 2007