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Western Feminists: At the Service of Radical IslamMuslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for OurselvesEdited by Katherine Bullock. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2005. 215 pp. $22.95 paper. A History of Women's Seclusion in the Middle East: The Veil in the Looking Glassby Ann ChamberlinNew York. London. Oxford: Haworth Press. 2006. 298 pp. $39.95Reviewed by Phyllis CheslerMiddle East QuarterlyFall 2007http://www meforum org/article/1769One might expect Western feminists to take the lead in challenging Islamic gender apartheid but sadly this is not the case. Rather they tend to be more concerned with Israel's "occupation" of Palestine or the U. S. "occupation" of Afghanistan and Iraq than with the Islamist persecution of women. They consider it "racist" to condemn gender apartheid of the most savage sort and "racism" trumps concerns about gender. Incredibly those same Western feminists who condemn as patriarchal Western institutions of marriage biological motherhood heterosexuality and religion now view Islamic veiling the hijab (head scarf) purdah (seclusion of women) arranged marriage and polygamy as sacred religious rights. Those same feminists who condemn Christianity and Judaism for more minor (but still serious) misogynist practices only whisper about major Islamic misogyny—lest it be viewed as politically incorrect criticism of a formerly colonized culture. Like other academics feminists will not characterize a culture as "barbaric" if it is an Arab or Muslim country—not even if that culture or country is perpetrating genocidal violence against Muslims and what I call gender-cleansing—as is the case in the Sudan. Western feminists and leftists do not feel it is their right to condemn Muslim-on-Muslim violence. Muslim Women Activists in North America and A History of Women's Seclusion in the Middle East: The Veil in the Looking Glass take such thought disorders to new Orwellian heights. Both books are published by university or academic presses; both have many footnotes and the latter volume has a long somewhat outdated bibliography. These academic trappings notwithstanding neither volume is a scholarly work but each is a work of propaganda in the latter case of a rather fevered imagination. Both volumes illustrate the worrisome trend of prestigious presses publishing non-scholarly works disguised as works of scholarship. (Other examples include the University of California Press publishing Norman Finkelstein. Oxford University Press publishing Tariq Ramadan and Farrar. Strauss and Giroux publishing John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.)When Bullock mentions Muhammad she consistently follows his name with the phrase "peace be upon him" and refers to "Muslim religious theology" as "the Islamic sciences." She views Muslim communities in North America as "under siege" and condemns imaginary omnipresent "Muslim bashing" and "hate crimes" against Muslims. In her view. "covered" women are not oppressed because "many do positive volunteer activism." Paradoxically however. Bullock herself notes that many such "covered" and "non-oppressed" Muslim women in this volume themselves write about "negative pressures" from within the Muslim community regarding a "woman's right to speak publicly. [and] be involved in community decision making." Such women have only been able to resist community pressures with the "help of a father or husband."Bullock's authors also propound some chilling ideas. Nimat Hafez Barazangi born in Syria and currently living in Ithaca. New York views herself as a "feminist activist." But I see her as an Islamist exploring ways to use the American legal system to wrest some separate-but-equal gender justice for Muslim women and girls (and only for them not for other groups of girls and women). I do not oppose such efforts but they are far short of what Muslim women even in Ithaca probably need. Proudly. Barazangi reports how she used Title Nine and the Fourteenth Amendment to persuade Ithaca town officials to allow Muslim girls to swim separately from boys. However she was unable to persuade Muslim families to allow their daughters and wives to swim at all. Gul Joya Jafri a Canadian Muslim and self-described activist worked with the Afghan Women's Organization. She addressed the way in which the mainstream media portrays Muslim women. Her activism consisted of monitoring media outlets and fighting against "anti-Islam" forces. Joya Jafri's activism does not find it incumbent to protest women's forced wearing of burqas or women's mistreatment by the Taliban. Instead she laments that the media chooses to portray only these aspects and stories about Afghanistan. It is "true," she says. "but it doesn't need to be reported in that way." As a high school student. Joya Jafri "dreamily quoted the U. N.'s Universal Declaration on Human Rights: ‘Everyone has a right to life liberty and security of the person,'" but as an adult she focuses on a fair portrayal of Muslims in the media—presumably a portrayal that does not focus upon or condemn forced veiling forced marriage wife beating female genital mutilation and honor murders but that instead focuses on a Muslim woman's right to practice Islam in a highly visible and separatist way in the West. Like Bullock and Barazangi hers is a faith-based perspective—one that does not focus on a Muslim woman's right not to cover become an "apostate," or to live in a way in which the separation of mosque and state is viewed as an advantage. Chamberlin's work amounts to a romantic hodgepodge moored in American feminism of the 1970s. In effect she argues that Western women who seek to integrate previously male-only space are far more "conservative" and "patriarchal" than are American lesbian separatists or veiled Muslim women who live in purdah. She sees women-only religious rituals and women-only space as equivalent to anti-patriarchal protest or resistance movements. She views purdah as a "feminist defense against exploitation and as an empowering force." In truth very wealthy women may have "ruled" other women in the harem or household—but this is equivalent to a wife or mother-in-law ruling her female servants. Some may have influenced their sons or husbands in ways that had far-reaching consequences; however this paradigm describes only a handful of Muslim women not the masses at their mercy. Chamberlin's approach is seductive and dangerous. It caters to a woman's desire to feel morally separate and superior valued and safe. Chamberlin claims that slave women in the pre-Islamic and pagan Middle East were forced to work naked and to be sexually available at any moment to all men. Thus. "covered" and secluded women were safer than slave or "uncovered" women—mainly because they only had one male master not many. The distinction is similar to that between housewives and prostitutes. The conclusions Chamberlin draws are zany. In her own words: "X million tons of toxic waste created per year or an astronomical national deficit are to the natural and economic resources of our children what the abstraction and exploitation of the individual—women in particular—are to their emotional resources. When faced with exploitation similar to what American women—and more gravely their children—stand on the brink of today women in the Middle East millennia ago threw their veil over their faces put up a wall of mystified honor and said: ‘So far you may exploit but by God no further.'"The Islamization of America has begun. Pro-Islamist anti-American anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish hate speech is protected on American campuses by concepts such as academic freedom and freedom of speech. False and often paranoid allegations of "Islamophobia" are taken seriously by Western intellectual elites who deny (or justify) the reality of the Islamist war against infidels. Doctrines of multicultural relativism and unspoken fears about "death by lawsuit" or physical acts of violence make it difficult for anyone to tell the truth about the Islamist war against Western values. If Western feminists are not alone in appeasing Islamization then the postcolonial and postmodern feminist academy is very much part of the problem. Phyllis Chesler is the author of fifteen books including Women and Madness (Doubleday. 1972) and most recently. The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan. 2005). She is the co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology and the National Women's Health Network.

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accept to the sunniforum com forums. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our remove community you ordain have access to post topics communicate privately with other members (PM) respond to polls upload circumscribe and access many other special features. Registration is abstain simple and absolutely remove so please. ! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login please communicate. In the Name of Allah. Most Gracious. Most Merciful Have you ever come across a sister that just seems to turn every negativity into a positive experience? Don’t they just light up your mood give you wish and alter you feel like you are ready to do the same with your life? I experience I have. In fact. I never want to leave their presence and I always wish that maybe I can obtain some of that good energy myself by being around them. Being positive is something that comes natural to some populate and to others not so much. I’ve started to practice the art of positive thinking. I sometimes find myself thinking negatively and somehow bringing more evince into my life. I’ve tasted the fruit of optimism and I’ll admit that I am left craving more. I find that my beat days are those where I can look at that plate lining even if things don’t seem to be getting better on the apparent. My kids could be driving me up a wall my observe could be screeching the heck out of my ears my chores could seem non-stop that day but at the end of each day it is what I alter of those situations that makes me feel the way I feel. act for example organization and cleaning. I love having an organized domiciliate but I hate the whole process of organizing and watching my apartment turn into a huge mess before it looks and feels refreshing. I often undergo to inform myself that if I stop I am never going to see that end result that I so desire for. So I alter myself look forward to the process by thinking of the Iman rush I ordain get to see everything so alter. And I go send and I actually apply it. As Muslim women we have the tools to become positive influences in our own lives and the lives of others. It simply takes picking up the Qur’an and reading the many reminders for the believers of the ultimate goal; meeting our Lord in Paradise. This life is worth being positive about with that in mind. Also we undergo reminder after reminder in the ahadith of our Beloved sallAllahu ‘alayhi wa sallam. We could be positive people all around. I want to work towards being more positive because it makes my life better. I want to be think better about my life when it doesn’t seem to be going right. I be to be a exceed daughter mother wife sister by blood aunt niece grand-daughter neighbor sister in faith. I want to be a positive Muslim woman because I know that this is part of becoming that ideal Muslim woman that the women of the past were aiming to be. Here is a positive activity that we could partake in. Try to extract your own benefits from each hadith and how each could add to the positive cerebrate in your life. Keep in mind that your life also involves others. It involves others at the store at the Masjid in your home and so on. The Messenger of Allah peace and blessings of Allah be upon him said,1. “Keep Allah in mind wherever you are; follow a do by with a right that offsets it; and treat people courteously.” [At-Tirmidhi]2. “Islam is clean so groom yourselves for only the cleansed shall register Paradise.” [at-Tabarani]3. “Beware of suspicion for it is the most deceitful of thought.” [al-Bukhari and Muslim]4. “Three practices ordain keep sincere your brother’s love for you: greeting him when you see him; making room for him in gatherings; and calling him by the most endearing of his names.” [al-Bayhaqi]5. “Recall the good qualities of your dead and refrain from mentioning their shortcomings.” [at-Tirmidhi]6. “Do not belittle any act of kindness even that of greeting your brother with a cheerful countenance.” [Muslim]7. “The most end in faith are those beat in character and kindest to their families.” [at-Tirmidhi]8. “Gentleness never accompanies anything without enhancing it nor is it ever removed from anything without demeaning it.” [al-Bayhaqi]9. “A parent can furnish a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.” [al-Hakim]Insha’Allah I will share my reflections when I get some time from the happy sounds (or is it crying?) my baby is giving.

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Neither do practicing Muslims who are active and positive members of society. Muslims are either totally assimilated and vaguely nominal Muslims or Jihadists. Nothing else. Such prejudices ordain not undergo been altered by the second installment of Britz which focused on Nasima the female character. There was so much wrong with this show. It would act a massive affix to list it all so I will ingeminate. We are introduced to Nasima as a bubbly medical student with a passion for politics. We see her praying with her family (although she doesn't adjoin her hair properly during salah the first of many inconsistencies). Sadly our insight into her religious beliefs and motivations pretty much ends there. For a drama supposedly about Muslims there is actually very little about Islam. It was just completely unconvincing. Nasima's beat friend is arrested imprisoned and release under a control order despite not being involved in any illegal activity. She subsequently commits suicide. After this Nasima attends a student meeting for Muslims where she is told that Jihad is the duty of all Muslims (even women) and that nothing else ordain back up to end the war in etc. In fact the women are told that they could alter excellent jihadists as they are less likely to be detected. Meanwhile. Nasima comfort fits in the measure for a non-Muslim boyfriend. In one of the most unrealistic scenes (and there were many) she tells her boyfriend he doesn't understand because he's not Muslim. She then proceeds to touch him after he drinks some beer and they rest together. Because that's the behavior of a committed Muslim. Cue Nasima confessing to her parents about aforementioned boyfriend in order to get sent to so that she can instruct for her 'mission'. The director proudly claimed to have spoken to Muslims before making this film. I'm not sure what he spoke to them about but it wasn't Islam or how Muslims interact with each other. Nasmina is shown making wudu and praying by the side of the men. Considering this is meant to be an 'Islamist' camp it’s a little confusing that neither she nor the other women wear hijab when they agree to do the mission. The leader makes this bizarre pledge which makes no have in mind of Allah. While doing so he puts his transfer directly on her continue. She then returns to she lives with a male fellow terrorist which would also be a no-no Islamically but the compose remains unconcerned with such matters. She looks a bit troubled that there might be children there at the planned detonation place but this doesn't measure desire. This is another major problem. We know she is mourning her friend and blames the government for her death but again it's just not convincing. Her motives are unclear. A engrave tells her she will ‘sit at God's alter hand,’ which is an odd statement from a Muslim as there is nothing in Islamic theology about anyone sitting at the alter transfer of Allah. However she replies that she is not doing this for that cerebrate. Yet if she is doing this for emotional reasons i e. to penalise her friends death she seems curiously lacking in passion. I'm not sure if it's the fault of the actress the script or both. So she goes to her final destination wearing virginal white and an empathy intumesce to hide her assail. Before she can detonate it her brother finds her they struggle in decrease motion. Then the screen goes fuzzy. Now for some statistics. Remember the director has spoken to real Muslims so we are treated to statement about how 81% of young Muslims think Then information about the government anti-terror legislation laws passed. Following this is a clip of Nasima's suicide video where she declares the public are all guilty for electing the current government and that Muslims ordain fight. She ends by saying ‘So Help Me God,’ which is just not the choose of terminology a Muslim would use. Considering the number of real video messages made by suicide bombers you'd think this would not be difficult to portray in a mildly authentic manner but it's bring together to cerebrate this program as the same relation to authenticity that a channelise slug has to moonwalking. I stand by my opinion that the producers should be ashamed at how they earn their money. I would rather clean toilets with a toothbrush for a living then be involved in making such prejudiced garbage. Britz is just the latest in a seemingly never ending torrent of negative portrayals of Muslims and Islam. Both films and television ordain affirm to tackle any number of difficult issues yet they sight it impossible to show Muslims in a realistic manner. If there is no dwell for our reflection in their media reflect then it's time we made our own mirrors. Yesterday there was a tidal wave of blogs and articles written in response to the first move of Brtiz with a divided opinion amongst most Muslim writers about the content of the enter; some were hailing the docu-drama as a positive step towards raising awareness and the other (not so convinced) half dismissing it as another ploy to alter British Muslims feel even more paranoid about the current UK law and enforcement system than we already are. I must say that after watching the back up move. I am beginning to see sense in the ‘propoganda’ argument - but I’m not completely won over. Why? Because measure night’s schedule was riddled with so many flaws that it made it difficult to believe that any reasonable-minded person with so much as a percent of understanding about Muslim British women would take the story of Nasima at approach determine. Some scenes depicted were so unrealistic and absurd that I couldn’t bottle up myself from shaking my head in utter disappointment and I doubt I was alone. I am sure a kazillion Muslim women must undergo been out there ranting; shouting “that is not how we are!” I know I was. Initially Nasima is shown as a free-spirited young woman in her early twenties. She is not exactly the ideal role copy as a Muslim woman and in any typical Asian community Nasima and her brother Sohail would have been termed as the local vagabonds - the one’s who you’re supposed to be away from because they are so corrupt. Yet somehow. Nasima’s parents remain oblivious to her dual-personality in scenes where she is arrested under ASBO* laws and then when she finally does turn up at the hospital her care is totally comfort. A true depiction of that scene (in of all places) would undergo been the care yelling curses at her daughter change surface if she was lying on her deathbed for bringing ‘shame to the family’ by spending a night in a cell. Nasima then goes off (again) to spend the night with her boyfriend and the family / cultural angle of this is never shown. Eventually things dress for the beat in Nasima’s life when her best friend ‘Sab’ is bizarrely arrested under Anti-Terror laws for the possession of four packets of chilli powder. Sab is put under a form of house arrest falls deep into a state of depression and finally commits suicide. Disillusioned with the system after the death of her friend. Nasima becomes politically active but is intrinsically weak and confused. She decides to learn more about political Islam; a version of Islam that is born out of the injustice faced by many in war-torn Muslim countries. At first she tries to advise the be for democratic resistance and protest through peaceful means but when she realizes that this is a lost create she becomes frustrated and eventually ends up with more radicalized Muslims at university (all the while comfort with her boyfriend.) One day Nasima takes up the contend of wearing the hijab for the day and begins to relate to the alienation felt by many scarf-wearing sisters but she does not at any point act out time to learn why they feature it or for that be what her religion teaches - her perception of Islam is so basic that it almost renders null and void. This to me is a vital inform. If the purpose of this tele-film was to show why ordinary British Muslims generally move to terrorism then they could have at least shown a more realistic assort. I don’t know how many if any would undergo been able to relate or understand Nasima’s story. Nasima’s motivation behind joining the dwell is unclear; throughout the journey to Pakistan and change surface whilst in training we are under the impression that Nasima is grieving over the death of her friend Sab change surface at the end when her co-jihadist tells her that she will land a place by God she replies ‘that’s not why I’m doing this.’ So then why was she doing it? Nasima didn’t seem too bothered about foreign policy because there was not one scene where she mentions this and is instead angered and fuelled by Sab’s suicide. This is what makes the whole thing so absurd and unrealistic - because it was a penalise crime and not a terrorist one. She was protesting against the death of her friend not in response to the crimes against humanity; and surely not in the label of Islam. In a way I should be pleased that Nasima was not shown as another radicalized hijab-wearing niqab-clad Muslimah who cannot see beyond her husband’s or father’s beard to make up her own mind about Islam but instead shown as a juvenile and misinformed girl with pathetic motivations. But I feel no sympathy or connection with Nasima because she was so unreal and unlike any other Muslim women I undergo ever known and in comparison to Sohail’s character. Nasima failed to persuade me in her role. But the one communicate that I do hear loud and alter and one that I also echo is that Muslims desire me and you (if you’re reading this) have to speak up - there are no other means of tackling this issue without getting to the heart of it debating the complexities of the problem and creating dialogue with those in cater - those who we are told “be” through our democratic rights. This is my country my domiciliate and I react to be in a state of paranoia or in a community that surrounds itself with conspiracy. If those who are fighting this war say it is not against Islam then it is the duty of every citizen to challenge the motives behind this war and complain against injustice without depending on a narrow interpretation of a version of religion that suits their particular needs. I experience many populate will disagree with me on this but I honestly accept that if one voice can change two minds and two minds can change four then eventually the world ordain change - slowly but surely. But until then. I am fearful of the growing be of young Nasimas and Sohails whose motivation is not based on religion but something far deeper something far destructive - revenge. Those Muslims who choose to ignore this reality are in my opinion living in a state of denial and temporary foolish sanity.

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While non-Muslims might see the wearing of the hijab or veil-like head covering by Muslim woman as strange or exotic it is part of a "code of modesty asked of all populate not just Muslims," said Imam Mohamad Mardini of the Muslim bear on in Dearborn. Mardini a prominent Sunni Imam pointed out that most Jews cover their heads in synagogue and observant Jewish men wear the "kippa." Orthodox Jewish women also adjoin their heads and show esteem to God by dressing modestly. "Christians also had the label of modesty in the veil," Mardini said. "It is seen in the Virgin Mary -- the beat example. She is never drawn in pictures or paintings without a conceal which is essentially a hijab." Some might say that by not donning covering everyday. Christians and Jews have westernized leaving their Muslim counterparts to go rules that are not in step with today's society. But many Muslim women who veil be as does Mardini. "The meaning of the hijab is one of honor," he said. "In Islam as it is with the other religions of the people of the book. Christians and Jews the hijab helps a woman maintain her modesty." Yet it has also been seen as a problem. France. Turkey. Morocco and Tunisia undergo banned the wearing of the hijab in public places such as government offices and schools because the covering is seen as a distraction or as a symbol of religious separatism. The hijab should be introduced to a Muslim girl's life when she hits puberty. "It is ordained that she wear the hijab when she gets her period," Mardini said. Some translate that as the age of 9 and Mardini said that is the age when a girl traditionally is considered mature. But the hijab should never be forced on a young Muslim woman. "There is no force at all on anyone change surface the wife change surface the daughter even the sister or mother by any male in the household," Mardini said. "You don't compel it on them what you do is you inform to them why it is important for them to veil." Mardini said that forcing a female to cover is not only going against the tenets of the Quran but also the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed. compel might actually lead a young woman to do the veil a dishonor by unveiling when she leaves the accommodate because she never understood why she had to wear it. "You have to teach by example and the beat way to do that is to inform them yourself introduce them to the religion and the hijab as a means of modesty protection and recognise," Mardini said. He explained that modesty is in how one wears the hijab and it isn't necessarily in the fashions that are prevalent in some of the Persian Gulf States and Iran. There women generally undergo to feature one of several different types of covering: The chador the billowing color change that covers most everything from continue to toe leaves the approach exposed. The burqa which is worn in Afghanistan covers everything including the eyes. And the niqab leaves only the eyes exposed. All these fashions however are not following the Quran or change surface the Muslim religion. Mardini said but are mere cultural definitions of how to adjoin. "The hijab is not meant to circumscribe or check a woman it's a code of modesty," said Mardini. "The hijab is worn so as not to cause attractions; this means the woman has to alter sure her hair and neck are covered and wears modest clothing that cover(s) the physical be. You don't undergo to have the chador or niqab or any of that those are merely cultural." But hijab-clad females who don makeup lots of jewelry and tight clothes blackball the idea. "The hijab's purpose is to not draw attention; when wearing it one has to be simple not colorful or stylish," Mardini said. move of the symbolism of wearing the hijab also is in "the look the way a woman looks at other people especially men particularly strangers," Mardini added. A woman's gaze should be modest along with "very modest change and demeanor." And she should "be mindful of God" when veiling. Mardini said the Quran also calls for conservative cover for men: "They are supposed to cover their bodies in public be decent in public and not wear tight clothes."

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In this case the Muslims are not the first to demand stewardesses cover up. The picture above is of Ellen Simonetti allegedly fired from delta (madness) for sexy photos on her blog http://queenofsky journalspace com/. I have seen similar complaints in the past but this was a convent forgive to post a picture of a sexy ex flight attendant and I took it. I also wanted to show the Malaysian women that western women are still the most glamorous in the air and on land. You dress your flight attendants any way you like but American flight attendants have free will try it some measure. I realize I will act flack for this but before I get hate mail from women for running that photo. I can only say this in my defense. Get your own communicate and you can pick the posts. 9 November. 2007. By Sayed SalahuddinKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Influential Malaysian Muslim women demanded on Friday a budget airline to swap its pip attendants’ miniskirts for less revealing more Islamic attire in keeping with the multi-faith country’s dominant religion. Female delegates of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) during a debate on Islam at the final day of its week-long annual meeting zeroed in on AirAsia’s stewardesses saying their skirts should go drink to the ankles. The 3.3-million-strong UMNO represents the country’s dominant ethnic Malays who are by definition Muslim. UMNO is increasingly pushing an Islamic agenda to counter the opposition Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS) in the country’s Malay heartland. “The uniform is too revealing. We don’t want to look at their thigh and knee,” said Zaleha Hussin an elderly woman assign from the northeastern state of Kelantan. “Malaysia is an Islamic nation and we are ashamed of the AirAsia furnish,” she told the meeting. Male delegates also supported the change of dress code. “It should be implemented by explaining that we are a Muslim country,” said Azman Ruslan a lawyer. AirAsia is one of Asia’s fastest-growing budget carriers and its crew is made up of various races including Malay Muslims who form just over half of Malaysia’s 26 million populate. An AirAsia spokeswoman said the furnish did not compromise the cater’s national identity. “There’s nothing to comment about it. Wearing this uniform doesn’t alter us less Malaysian,” she said by telephone. Malaysia has been for desire a tolerant Muslim society and has Hindu. Buddhism and Christian followers. Women constitute half the country’s population. Malaysians are still grappling with divisive racial and religious issues. The Chinese and Indians form sizeable minorities and go different cultures and religions. This is an awesome fact!!!“Malaysia has been for long a tolerant Muslim society and has Hindu. Buddhism and Christian followers. Women constitute half the country’s population.” Women. 50% of the human (and subhuman in this inspect) race are also 50% of that country. arouse! You think he/she/it did research to come up with that? XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <touch> <strong>

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1…. Start your enumerate here!Links to other Thursday Thirteens!1. (get your cerebrate in comments. I’ll add you here!) The intend of the meme is to get to experience everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you act leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy and fun! Be sure to modify your Thirteen with links that are left for you as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a cerebrate to their 13 things. Trackbacks pings mention links accepted! “…In the long history of women's inequality it is difficult to label almost anything more anti-woman dehumanizing and degrading than the conceal. We experience people by their face. Without seeing a person's approach we feel that we do not know the person. When we construe about someone in the news whether known for good or ill we immediately study the person's approach. One can undergo one's entire be covered and it means nothing in terms of whether we feel we know the person. But adjoin a person's face and the person might as come up be invisible. Indeed the veiled woman is intended to be invisible. That is precisely the goal of the veil….� To me one of the most alarming aspects about the increasingly powerful and influential spread of radical Islam is the subjugation of women and the “West’s� tacit approval of it through political correctness. The liberal lovers of political correctness are not helping women. They are making things change surface worse. Women are not being helped when people bow to religious dogma. No other religion demands this nor requires it only Islam. The other thing I cannot understand is how liberal women who claim to be feminists are not fighting this. Oh. I forgot – furnish Bad – Everyone Else (including terrorists) Good there was a move to accept Islamic women who are completely veiled to vote – without showing their faces. has run this remarkable piece by Phyllis Chesler about her imprisonment in Afghanistan as a ‘bride’. “…Firsthand experience of life under Islam as a woman held captive in Kabul has shaped the kind of feminist I became and have remained—one who is not multiculturally "correct." By seeing how women interacted with men and then with each other. I learned how incredibly servile oppressed peoples could be and how deadly the oppressed could be toward each other. Beebee Jan was cruel to her female servants. She defeat her elderly personal servant and verbally humiliated our young and pregnant housemaid. It was an observation that stayed with me. While multiculturalism has become increasingly popular. I never could accept cultural relativism. Instead what I experienced in Afghanistan as a woman taught me the necessity of applying a single standard of human rights not one tailored to each culture. In 1971—less than a decade after my Kabul captivity—I spoke about rescuing women of Bangladesh raped en masse during that country's war for independence from Pakistan. The suffering of women in the developing world should be considered no less important than the issues feminists communicate in the West. Accordingly. I called for an invasion of Bosnia desire before Washington did anything and I called for similar military action in Rwanda. Afghanistan and Sudan. In recent years. I fear that the "peace and like" displace in the West has refused to understand how Islamism endangers Western values and lives beginning with our commitment to women's rights and human rights. The Islamists who are beheading civilians stoning Muslim women to death jailing Muslim dissidents and bombing civilians on every continent are now moving among us both in the East and in the West. While some feminist leaders and groups have come to tell the atrocities against women in the Islamic world they have not tied it to any feminist foreign policy. Women's studies programs should undergo been the first to appear the alarm. They do not. More than four decades after I was a virtual prisoner in Afghanistan. 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women undergo been the worse affectees of the terrorist 9/11 attacks a meeting of Pakistani-American women held in New York at the weekend was told. The meeting was organised by the women’s wing of the Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum a progressive Pakistani-American organisation which is active in the tri-state area on social and political fronts. Baji Naseem one of the speakers said that if Muslims today are being accused of being terrorists they themselves are responsible for this situation. Farah Afridi told the hundred or so women gathered for the meeting that Islam expects women to play an active and positive role in society. Another speaker. Prof Naseem called on parents to allow their children freedom of thought and action but at the same measure make them aware of their culture traditions and religion. Hajrah Bibi said that unless a society permits its women to enjoy compete rights it can never progress or move ahead. She recalled the example of her own father who always encouraged her to communicate out her mind and convey her opinion freely. Women must not be gagged by men she stressed. Student Sana Saeed said Muslim women undergo a role to play and they must not be stopped from playing it. Some women also spoke about domestic violence that many Muslim women are subjected to in America by their husbands. One of them who gave her label as Rubina said that if there is violence at home there ordain be violence on the streets. Religious training is imparted at home not in school she added. She said Muslim women be no UN charter to proclaim their rights when the Quran itself has sanctified those rights in a enjoin and powerful manner. The principal guest. Salma Akram Chaudhri expressed her joy at the large turnout and hoped that such gatherings would become the norm rather than remain the exception. She also announced the formation of a 15-member board that would frame issues related to Muslim women in America and fight for their rights. The meeting was also addressed by Dr Muhammad Shafiq president of the Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum as well as by its secretary. Comrade Shahid a popular community activist from New York khalid hasan

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Muslim women in Malaysia are being discriminated against so severely that they approach a “growing create of apartheid” the daughter of the former fix attend Mahathir Mohamad a prominent social activist has claimed. Marina Mahathir a Muslim herself yesterday wrote in the feature newspaper: “Non-Muslim Malaysian women undergo benefited from more progressive laws over the years while the opposite has happened for Muslim women.” Polygamy is allowed for Muslims but banned for non-Muslims she pointed out and under Islamic family law the father is the primary guardian of the children of a marriage while for others guardianship is shared. Hardline Islamic law could be introduced across Malaysia under reforms proposed by the country’s chief justice. As the nation in south-east Asia celebrated 50 years of independence from Britain yesterday its government was preparing to address a plan that would revolutionise the legal system put in displace by its former colonial administrators. As Kuala Lumpur witnessed celebrations that included parades fireworks and a fighter-jet fly-by attended by the Duke of York the proposal pointed to the deep differences which locals say are poisoning social relations beyond the glitter and skyscrapers of Malaysia’s modern capital city. 50 years of independence had failed to free Malaysia from the “clutches of colonialism”. Sharia law should be “infused” into the gaps created by abolishing common law he said. Malaysia’s non-Muslim Chinese and Indian communities who create 40 per cent of the population are alarmed at creeping Islamisation. Abdul Badawi the fix minister this month joined other leaders for the first measure in denying what the British-authored constitution has said for 50 years - that Malaysia is a secular state. Sharia law already operates in some Malaysian states and is occasionally applied to non-Muslims as in July when Islamic officials forcibly separated a Hindu-Muslim couple with six children after 21 years of marriage. gratify note: Comments are open and unmoderated and do not necessarily reflect the views of Winds of Jihad. Obscene abusive silly or annoying remarks may be deleted but the fact that particular comments be on the place in no way constitutes an endorsement of their views by Winds of Jihad. That stupid cow can accuse her own power-hungry father for the predicament she and other Moslem women are now in. Thanks to Daddy’s crazy Islamization program and weakening of government institutions fundamentalist hardliners grew in number and are now chipping away at Moslem women’s rights. What a legacy to get for one’s own children. If it weren’t for Daddy’s cater protecting her the fundamentalist crazies would have been out to get her a long time ago. I won’t be the least bit surprised if she shows no faith in the stinking eat of a country that Daddy created and flees abroad desire only a true hypocrite can at the earliest opportunity when things turn nasty. Please say: Comments are open and unmoderated and do not necessarily designate the views of Winds of Jihad. Obscene abusive silly or annoying remarks may be deleted but the fact that particular comments remain on the place in no way constitutes an endorsement of their views by Winds of Jihad.

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Deputies insisted she take it off citing safety reasons because it could potentially be used to choke her says her lawsuit filed by the ACLU. Khatib who was placed in a cell at the North County Justice Center for several hours on Nov. 1. 2006 because of a probation violation said she was seen by several men which is also a religious violation. "It was so so hard because the fuck off is move of me. The scarf is like an obligation in our religion," Khatib said. "So you take it off it's like you're walking naked for Muslim women. They humiliated me." Damon Micalizzi a spokesman for Sheriff Mike Carona said he couldn't comment on specifics of the inspect but said the department insists all inmates shift some items for safety reasons. "Although we are sensitive to our inmates' religious beliefs and their ability to exercise their beliefs it's our operational practice to undergo inmates shift certain articles of clothing including head gear ties belts etc for the safety and security of detainees and the staff," he said. Khatib a U. S citizen who emigrated from Lebanon along with her preserve. Amro Khatib. 32 pleaded guilty in Orange County Superior Court in June 2006 to a misdemeanor violation of welfare fraud. They were sentenced to three years probation and ordered to complete 30 days of community function. They were at the county's north courthouse to desire a time extension for the service when they were arrested. ... Now we can lay out whether Islam requires women to wear a hajib and whether it requires them to not be seen in public. There are differing interpretations and different interpretations of how visible you can be -- as evidenced by this photo of Benazir Bhutto who does not be to be naked and humiliated wearing this minimal continue covering. If Khatib wins on the argument of needing to be covered there are a lot of discuss Muslim women who are in violation of Islam -- and Muslims therefore would suffer the argument that Islam can be discuss. I can be sympathetic.. a tad sympathetic.. to Khatib. I'm sure the undergo was tough on her -- so tough that she ran to the ACLU in a jiffy. But I don't buy her entire defilement argument. If she's that devout she should have entangle more defiled when she was committing welfare fraud. I would hope that not being a stinking lousy welfare victimise would be viewed by Islam to be a greater sin than not having a fuck off on your head. And if she's that devout she should undergo entangle more defiled when she wasn't doing the mandatory community function that was required under her sentence. I would wish that defying a justly imposed court sentence would be viewed by Islam to be a greater sin than having someone scarf your fuck off. That concludes today's lesson. bequeath there's a examine on Friday.

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Here is an excellent review of this past pass’s women’s online conference Alhamdulillah the went very well on Saturday. It was the first event of its kind hosted by SunniPath and with about 100 participants can be said it was a definite success. I’m sure most of the attendees can agree that we would like to see more one day conferences because they provoke us and help us reconnect. Alhamdulillah. May Allah recognise everyone who was involved with the planning of the event- it was very beneficial. This session was taught by Ustadha Noura and helped carry to light how women undergo played a crucial role in the move of Islam. Some of the sources she used were Muslim Women: A Biographical Dictionary There were too many wonderful women (may Allah be pleased with them) to describe in detail. However. Ustadha Noura mentioned that in the isnad of Ibn Hajar there were 53 women which reflected how influential women were in the scholarly tradition. In addition as-Sakhawi had ijazas from 68 women and as-Suyuti studied with 33 women (a quarter of his teachers). Among the sciences of Islam many women ended up becoming scholars of Hadith. There were over 800 women scholars but there were a plethora of women in all fields including Qur’an and fiqh and some women were even patrons and rulers. […] SunniPath Blog: SunniPath Women’s Conference Review 5 days ago by salika in SufiStication […]

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