Women are a form of life halfway between humans and animals. They come closest to the level of humans when they are pregnant with a male child, or when they are in the act of copulation with a man".
That really was the gist of it. :-( I was disgusted and threw the book back in the shelf...I wish now I had checked out the book so I could give you the title and the name of the islamic philosopher who came up with this "brilliant" observation. He was alive a few centuries after mohammad but before the Turkish invasions, and that's all I remember. I was reading my way through Will Durant's Outline of History, and I had *just* started the section on islam, which is the only reason I was drawn to that book...Had I not read that passage, I might have fallen for Durant's whitewash (though in fairness to Durant, he was writing before moslem terrorism and the 'fundamentalism' that inspires that terrorism had become a factor of day to day living for too many.
BUT while moslem may be under sharia only marginally human, they still "outrank" nonmoslems, women AND men alike, so that must be enough to satisy them.
They are animals.