The process of modernization and secularization revolved around what may be termed pantheism/immanence. The crisis of women is in reality caused by the rising levels of immanentization, modernization, and secularization.... In the absence of any point of reference transcending the individual Self, the human being is encapsulated within itself.... The human being defies itself, becoming an imperial force, undisciplined and unlimited by anything external to itself, generating its own norms and standards from its own imperial self." "Feminists vacillate rather violently between seeing the differences between males and females as so deep as to be insurmountable on the one hand, and on the other to view them as so insignificant that they can be altogether discounted. [In contrast,] the advocates of true women liberation movements realize fully the simple human fact that there are biological, psychological, and social differences between men and women. These differences manifest themselves in the different roles allocated to each sex by society, in some kind of a division of labor based on gender. The advocates of women liberation movements, instead of engaging in the impossible task of trying to obliterate such differences, do their utmost to prevent such a division of labor from becoming a basis for social and human inequality."
Dr. Abdel-Wahab M. Elmessiri is Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature at Ain Shams University in Cairo. He also held the positions of Expert on Zionism at Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Advisor on Cultural Affairs in the Office of Arab League at the United Nations, and Professor at King Saud University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Kuwait University. In Arabic, Dr. Elmessiri is the author of numerous books and studies, among them are The Land of Promise (1977); The Palestinian Wedding (1982); The Encyclopedia of Zionist Concepts and Terminology (1975); Zionism, Nazism and the End of History (1996); The Encyclopedia of Jews, Judaism and Zionism, 8 Ves, (1999); Comprehensive and Partial Secularism, 2 Volumes, (2002 In Defense of Man (2004); and others.