“When we abolish the slavery half of humanity, together with the system of hypocracy it implies, then the division of humanity will reveal it’s genuine significance and the human couple will find it’s true form.”
Simone de Beauvoir
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This past week there has been a flurry of “politically correct” opinion substantiating the right of Muslim women to wear the all in-shrouding burka. This in response to the announcement that the French government intention to ban the wearing of the burka in all public buildings and from being worn on the streets in France.
On Wednesday that bastion of elite media liberalism, The LA Times, ran an article titled, “France’s Misguided Plan To Ban The Burka.” According to the article, “such a ban would undermine ban would undermine fundamental religious liberty.” Only “progressive” liberals it would seem, can make a case for the subjugation of women; there has been no comment by the feminist movement. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-veil3-2010feb03,0,1087767.story
The burka is a quaint tradition proscribed by the Qu’ran that dictates that women’s bodies are dirty and unclean. Therefore they should be covered from head to foot in order to keep men from being tempted by their unclean bodies. You would have thought the author of that piece might have instead stressed the fact that the burka is nothing more than a control feature of “dirty and immoral” men over women in Islamic society. But still no peep from the feminists.
Those that argue that the burka is a sign of religious preference neglect to mention that fundamentalist Islamic culture brainwashes young girls that it is their lot to wear the garment and for those that rebel “honor killings” are the work of the day. The burka has nothing to do with religious freedom, it is a tool of slavery to enhance the subjugation of Muslim women. Still no comment by the feminist movement.
In this case we might conclude that the silence of comment or action in support of outlawing this form of slavery, might be support – by omission, of this barbaric practice. That is the weakness of the feminist movement and the politically correct purist’s that control that movement. It is no wonder that the feminist movement has proved themselves hypocrites in protecting women from slavery. The cloth shackles of the burka will continue to suppress women as long as the feminist movement makes no move to lend their support in banning this barbaric religious affectation. I think we can safely conclude that perhaps les féministe mouvement c’est mort! Just my opinion.
William McCullough
Good one Bill
Tackleberry,
Shame on you too. Myopia must be running rampant among you conservative right wing intolerants. Are you intimating that washing machines, toiletpaper, plumbing, curing diseases, Victoria’s Secret, a diet other than the staple rice and oil and goat, would be a better investment in the future of the middle east than solid gold mercedes’ and palaces with more rooms than one man could sleep in in a year? Why these oil sheiks work hard putting in an hour or so per month in that salt mine known as oil production. How is it you question the validity of a lifestyle perfected by a people who gladly live in the shackles of poverty; an existence so perfect they would gladly blow themselves up rather than live. You must think going on the internet to find virgins is more virtuous than the suicide route. Gee, you’re no more tolerant than the French.
How is it that we, the west, think it is good to honor such an ass backward culture? How is it that we have come to think of this culture as higher and better than ours? I know that revisionist historians would have us believe that Islam actually contributed something positive to the world at one time, like the number “0″……..earth-shattering. Maybe that was the fortelling of their future achievements.
However, lately I haven’t seen any evidence of positive contributions to the world. Instead, we have seen them utilize western technology, with western help to menace the world. I know of no Islamic country, save maybe Turkey, which can invent and manufacture 100+ year old technology like the airplane, despite the abundance of raw materials in their posession. Maybe that’s because they can’t fly them either, just ask the Israelis. Do you know why the Egyptian Navy has glass bottom boats? So they can see their Air Force.
In all of the Islamic countries I have been to, the people, save for a few elite families, live in utter poverty and squalor. And, they are hardly centers for economic or social progress. How is it that this should be considered good? I once heard a saying, “You don’t ask a poor man how to get rich.” I would think the principle of that saying would carry over to other aspects of life.
They should be looking to us, not us to them for inspiration. Now that we are looking to them, and just about every other example of unsuccesfulness, I suppose it doesn’t matter. Honestly, the Burkas don’t scare me so much. I’m much more concerned with “man-love thursdays”.
Bill,
As usual you are misreading and misjudging the sentiment behind the liberal mindset as regards equality between men and women . Why is it you feel that the islamic/Muslim men can wear dirty nightshirts and yet the women should not be afforded the opportunity to wear rainments guaranteed to capture and retain their womanly vapors? Shame..shame…sheme…Uhm Uhm Uhm.