Honoring The Woman Forum Arab Woman Chains of Customs a..

Arab woman faces societal despotism and injustices in all the Arab Countries, but it varies from one country to the other, based on its extent, scope, magnitude, kind, nature and character. The basic problem lies in societal culture, and found in clothing customs and traditions a religious garment, and in the emphasis of some religious scholars on these traditions which forms a major challenge to Arab woman that limit and confine her development and hence her society.   Arab woman has been chained with various types of traditions, on various levels of shape, dress, behavior, thinking, and culture, which offends her as a human being with full rights and duties, and even deprive her of her humanity and dignity. Correcting Arab woman status in Arab societies and attaining her rights, lay in changing societal culture that is in contradiction with the tolerance and leniency of Islam, which is based on justice and equality. It also lay in in changing the woman's perspective of herself, and in believing in her abilities, and in knowing her rights.  As the Arab woman lives a crisis of marginalization, exclusion, deprivation, subjugation, killing, and domination that degrades, diminishes, and obstructs her womanhood, it is necessary to fix and reform societal entity and its various systems. And to confront the dominance and hegemony of the culture and mentality of contemporary per-Islamic pagan of  "Burying Female Alive", whether it is materialistic or mental. The contemporary "Burying Female Alive" concept, strengthens the continuity of imposing domination, despotism, negative and inferiority perspectives on the female. There is no human civilization without both ends of the equation:The man and the woman. And, the dignity of the woman is the criterion for human security and for achieving sustainable development.