185. Raina, The Most Beautiful Queen in the World
Newspapers and television here in Italy are full of pictures of what a great number of Italians deem the most beautiful Queen of the world, Raina of Jordan, who with her husband are in Italy for a state visit.
Queen Raina is beautiful not just in appearance, even if that is quite striking, but it is her smile that is most captivating, her charm, her gentleness, her elegance which all reveal a tempered and noble spirit which she demonstrates by the continual struggle she has in gaining rights for women and children, not only in her country, but wherever in the world those rights are trodden upon.
Her charm, her beauty, her elegance would only hide an empty shell if it were not for these remarkable qualities that puts her above the rest of those of her equal, by that I refer to those who are born to a privileged position. However Raina does not need a crown, a throne, a position to make her noble she is in person so. Her, thoughts, deeds and manner make her so. Indeed Raina shines of her own light, but then she has the fortune to have a husband who lets her shine.
When I consider the plight of women in the Islamic world, I shudder. There are women in that world who in the name of religion are never allowed to show their face even, let alone shine, because their men are brutes and those men, the powerful ones that rule that world make such rules that do not allow their women to shine. Those laws are such that blots humanity with shame because those laws made wilfully by those men, are brutal and indecent.
In such a world, if a man wants to rid himself of a woman all he has to do is take a short cut, abuse of her, discredit her, invent an accusation of adultery or any form of pretext and at best the woman will be whipped, lashes on a bare torso, and made to live as an outcast in a hovel. Otherwise she is executed or stoned to death- take your pick.
And then that parliamentary, I wrote about in my last blog, asks us to teach those kind of values in our Italian schools? God Forbid! They have already tried to ban the Crucifix from our classrooms. They will massacre Our Lady next.
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