Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Living Creed. As symbol and leader of Moslem woman's struggle for freedom, Princess Aisha has a special authority that derives from the fact that her father, King Mohammed V (the title he assumed this year), is spiritual leader of Morocco's 9,000,000 Moslems as well as their temporal ruler. For that struggle has also meant a head-on clash with the mullahs of Islam, who insist that the Koran, as the literal word of the Prophet, is subject to no modification or review whatever. The King has dedicated both himself and his daughter...
...Over the centuries," says Morocco's Minister of Justice, "false interpretations of Islamic law have loaded society with social abuses of many varieties. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the situation of Moslem women. Islam makes woman equal with man, with the same rights and the same duties. It gives her the right to choose her husband, and if it allows polygamy, it submits it to severe restrictive conditions which are difficult to fulfill...
...need not learn to read and write. Her husband will always be by her side. Then to whom should she write a letter?" But such objections are fast yielding to the demand of the young for knowledge, and the determination of the emancipators that they should have it. In Morocco the government has reduced illiteracy an impressive 10% in the two years since independence. In Tunisia's two years as a nation, the number of girls attending schools has increased tenfold. Ten years ago there were only five women's colleges in Pakistan; now there are 25, including...
...Consent. "After Morocco became independent," said one Western diplomat, "the enthusiasm of the women was almost frightening. They tore off their veils, shouted themselves hoarse, whenever Laila Aisha appeared. Now they seem to be nearing the middle...
...Morocco's Ministry of Justice is working on the draft of a new divorce law that will strip Moroccan men of the right to shed their spouses simply by repeating "I divorce thee" three times, and bring the law more nearly into accord with Western-type procedures. Polygamy, a delicate subject since the King himself has two wives, will probably be so ringed with further restrictions that it will become for all practical purposes impossible...