Better remove our veils of ignorance?

A young E.Y. praying for more snowfall wrote in Twitter: ?Be colder my Turkey, so that daughters of the nation of Islam learn how to dress? (to cover themselves from top to toe). What and how a woman dresses up should be something that she decides for herself. Can it be the duty of the state, some self-proclaimed religious ?doctrine-logues? or an officious young lady who somehow was made to believe that a ?decent woman? must cover herself from top to toe?

In a society where women are still considered by and large as the ?deficient? ? often in slang women are referred to in most parts of Anatolia as ?deficient skirt? ? but rather costly members of the family who do not deserve schooling, a proper place at the dining table or a role in social life, can violence on women be a surprise? In only three days, one woman was raped, dismembered and burned by a man, his father and a friend of theirs and another woman was killed, dismembered with her remains dumped in a trash can by her husband. Can such heinous crimes be considered normal?

Was it not in a Nasraddin Hodja story that ?as I never had an intention of getting along well, I never learned her name?? If a revered religious scholar figure of the folk culture of this land can make such a joke, can it really be surprising if the dominant political figure comes up with ?Women and men cannot be equal. That?s against the nature of creation,? statement?

Of course, men and women cannot be physically equal; women possess far more important assets than the brute force of men. Scientific research has proven dazzling differences regarding the capacities of various segments of male and female bodies. Furthermore, there is an incredible difference between a feminine and masculine look at life. Men, often,...