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April 06, 2008

Hijab Day

Louisiana State University student newspaper columnist, Shirien Elmasraya challenges kuffar women to wear a hijab on April 25. I was considering the matter when I noticed commenter JSH has done my thinking for me.

I challenge you to dress as a western woman for a day. You just may find that the ideas that you have been taught, that women are ogled or lusted over is not the norm. In the end I respect your right to wear whatever you would like to wear as our western compels to respect your right to speech. However I feel that many in the Islamic world abuse western concepts of individual liberty by promoting a faith that doesn't reciprocate in kind. Women are forced to wear the cloak and veil in Islamic countries. Women are treated like second class citizens in Islamic countries, forbidden to drive, work, or denied an equal voice in court. Why would we westerners seek to transplant those realities of Islam to our freedom loving individual oriented societies? Practice your faith but remember that your rights end at my nose. Unless Muslims begin to show that they can live next to non-Muslims and not seek to change the law of the state to suit their religious perspectives or restrict the rights of the non-Muslims, such as the call to ban negative comments about the Islamic faith, westerners will continue to look at the self-segregating Islamic community with suspicion.

The rest of the comments are also worth a look; especially the bikini car wash suggestion. Here's another: Dress like Slave Girl Leia for April 25! This gesture of ecumenicism would go a long way toward showing me Muslim women respect my most deeply held spiritual convictions. But no costumes from the "prequels" or it is a original series Jedi fatwa on all your asses.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 6, 2008 07:59 AM

Comments

April 25th is also Red Hat Society Day, oddly enough.

Posted by: urthshu [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 6, 2008 08:58 PM

Makes me retch. And it's even worse.

1. Despite much evidence to the contrary, Muslim men still prefer human females to goats. The hijab does not protect women from these brainwashed rapists, but rather identifies them as especially vulnerable victims. Attackers know their male relatives will beat/torture/strangle them if they report the rape.

2. What kind of queer religion proscribes essential nutrients? All humans need sunlight on their skin to create vitamin D. Even Muslim females.

3. It's gonna get ugly under there. How many times per day does the Prophet of Shampoo command the hijabers to wash their greasy hair?

Posted by: HelenW [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 6, 2008 11:11 PM

I expect they are as capable of washing their hair once they get home as anybody else.

It is not the head covering that bothers me per se. Think of Paul's (arguably tortuous) argument on the subject in 1 Corinthians 11... I agree, rather, with the writer of the comment: They are free to believe what they wish. We draw the line at the imposition of their beliefs on the rest of us; particularly when, a you point out, we cannot know if their beliefs are theirs out of conviction or out of fear.

It is particularly sickening to watch as "feminists" jettison every gain their mothers and grandmothers made from them in an orgy of sentiment and nihilism, prostrating themselves at the feet of a rape-cult. Today's feminists are armed and vote Republican.

Posted by: Ghost of a flea [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 7, 2008 08:35 AM

That's another perspective. My point is: Who needs a god that prescribes unhealthy behavior? Humanitarians are well justified to rebuke the systematic implementation of such fallacious thinking.

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Btw, we have invitations to a pre-world-premier, sneak preview screening of The Forbidden Kingdom tonight. I'm tingling. Several of the film contributors will be attending the reception. Interested in some B-list celebrity pix?

Posted by: HelenW [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 7, 2008 05:20 PM

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