Nice essay Waleed, and I wish you well in your journey of discovery about motherhood.

Can you then explain to us how is it that islamic fundamentalists can treat women like animals, obliging them under threat of physical violence to cower within the walls of their homes, cover themselves from head to foot in the street and judging women guilty of adultery while setting men free, and denying girl children the right to education, let alone the right to breath freely in the sunshine.

Where is the respect for women and motherhood that you have so eloquently demonstrated? What perversion of the Koran allows this evil against women (and mothers) to flourish all over the islamic world