In Honor Of His Great Revelations:Today’s blog is dedicated to the great and enlightened Yahia Ragheb Daqrui, president of the judges’ syndicate in Egypt.  As quoted in the 3^rd March issue of Khaleej Times Online, Mr. Daqrui, extended his staunch support to a recent landmark judgment barring Egyptian women from joining the bench, as according to him, anything otherwise would have been un-Islamic and against Shariat.  He asked plaintively whether it was appropriate for a woman to be alone with two or more males, for if allowed, a woman judge would continually be in such situations while deliberating with male judges.  He also revealed that a woman judge will certainly become pregnant, and by doing so would cast an impact on the prestige of the judiciary and the judge’s public image (news to me).  Further, the shock of the public at the sight of a woman judge needed serious consideration.

One cannot agree less Mr. Daqrui, for your existence by itself goes a long way to prove that motherhood, somewhere, sometimes, can be quite unspeakably shameful.  You have placed yourself right beside the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who in their judgment in 1873 affirmed the 1869 decision denying Myra Bradwell entry to the Illinois bar.  Their judgment similarly revealed, “The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother” (Bradwell v. Illinois, 83 U.S. 130 AT 141 (1873).  But instead of learning from such benevolence, the kitabia women of this country have worked against the natural order of things, and over the last 134 years managed to intrude everywhere from the bar to the bench to the speaker’s office, and now one of them is running for presidency of this country.  How utterly despicable and shameful.