Wise Words of an Old Man
The late ayatollah Fadlallah was not only a feminist, he was a revolutionary as well:
What makes it especially interesting to me is that he links adult behavior (submitting to the strong) to the way people are raised - father is right and the rest has to shut up. As a teacher that’s my perpetual conundrum: how to educate students to be critical without my classroom turning into a perpetual revolution…
Gepost in: English, Middle East, Politics / Analysis | 8 maart 2012
The idea that the family structure translates on the macro political level, is a very genuine idea popularized in Demographics by Emmanuel Todd since the 80s, and applied to various countries with a selection statistical data.