Islam saw fit to adopt earlier Eastern cultures'
segregation of nubile girls and women where
the Muslim aristocracy and those of royal descent
maintained desirably beautiful slaves and
concubines ensuring their presence was opulent
and sequestered; girls and women serving a
single purpose to satisfy the desires of men
who held their gender as temptresses out of sight
but never out of mind, the source of pleasure
and of offspring; delectation and issue within
the seraglio divorced from the eyesight of others
grasping for pleasure and possession. How far
Islam has ventured from its early Koranic
purity of purpose is debatable. Beautiful women
still turn men's heads in hedonistic spin, a
trait to be urgently addressed in the invisibility
that the chador achieves where not a stray
delectable inch of skin or hair urges desire
in predatory men. Ancient Persia relied on
its culture of isolation, the Islamic Republic
of Iran strode into the future with forcible
restraint as vibrantly alluring women reject
constraints free to object while mounting
protests, free to be tormented, tortured,
raped and murdered by the pious injunction
of clerics enraged by their impudence.
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