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Many girls are murdered across the Islamic world, some for the petty crime of not wanting to wear the burqa, hijab or niqab. Covering women up is not necessarily mandated in the Koran, but it stems from Arab culture and their misogynistic attitude towards the female.
In Arab and Muslim culture the male rules, the female obeys, and the female is branded as a piece of property, a cow, a man's dog, chattel to serve and please the man. This is one of the keystones of Arab and Islamic culture and of Islam supremacism. Islam is a male-dominated cult.
But it goes beyond even simple misogyny. It is a direct assault on the West. If you read Ed Hussein's book on 'Why I Became An Islamist And Left,' the former English Muslim makes it very clear that women wear this dress to express superiority over Western values, and to assert their distinctiveness.
They wear the Burqa [complete body covering including the hands], the Jilbab, [full body covering with the face open]; the Hijab [headscarf with the face left open], or the Niqab [full body covering with only the eyes visible]; as a statement of Islamic superiority. It is a conscious act of Muslim supremacism, done to intimidate the West.
Should we put up with this?
Burqa, Hijabs and niqabs and their anti-Western, female-branding are outlawed in public spaces in Holland, France, Germany, and Turkey. The UK, Australia, Canada and the US need to follow suit.
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Re: Ban The Burqa, The Hijab And The Niqab
By Samim Ahmed, January 29, 2008 at 22:21Ban or not ban---it is not the issue man. If one choose to wear hijaab or burkha, you can not stop him.this not the freedom of civilisation. You dont have to ban clothes like these.
Re: Ban The Burqa, The Hijab And The Niqab
By lina, December 14, 2007 at 17:02stop the racism
and get a life.
Re: Ban The Burqa, The Hijab And The Niqab
By luyen, December 13, 2007 at 16:27I think when you ban anything, you are treading on very dangerous ground - we speak of the burqua as being an assault on western values, isn't freedom of speech and religion the very basis of western values?
So the question you're asking, is how far can we let it go - and I think it's really important not to mix up what is Islam and what Islam has become, manipulated by people in power positions.
I think once you tread down the path of taking away people's religious freedoms, even though from their own side they might be doing for their own good or not so good reasons, you take away the fundamental basis for disagreement, for debate and discussion. Then things become less tolerant...maybe not as much as say a dictatorship or communism, but it's headed that way.
In the United States, there is a unspoken ban against anybody who acts or appears unpatriotic, there is pseudo-law that allows the detainment and persecution of American citizens, accused but not proven of being terrorists.
So yeah, how far do you go, before it's too late? I'm guessing that if you asked muslim women who wore burquas, if they wanted to do away with the burqua...many would say no - the reason being, the burqua is just a symbol. The cultural and psychological make-up factors are much more complex...if you come in and say Burquas are bad because I think they are, then what happens to the fabric of the muslim family or communities? And then what happens to the society as a whole?
In my opinion, it's a very very limited proposal at best...for one, you will not change anybody's mind by imposing a law on them, nor will it promote harmony between cultural or religious groups...there are better ways I think, than adversarial legislation.
Ultimately, regardless of how passionate anti-burqua or anti-whatever we can be, it is up to the individual to empower themselves to develop the inner qualities that make them a good human being....the clothing is just cosmetic.