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April 24, 2006
Islamic Reformer Tells Women To Take Off Veil!
Topics: Understanding Islam
Did you know that the wearing of the hijab (head scarf) in the Islamic world actually began with the Islamic Revolution in Iran which made the veil obligatory for women? Now there's a Yemeni reformist writer urgeing Muslim women to take off the veil:
"Another well-known factor is the increase in oil [sales], which enabled Saudi Arabia and wealthy Saudis to provide financial aid for the dissemination of Wahhabi Islamic religious propaganda, and to set up a gigantic media network which emphasized daily that the veil was obligatory. This religious Islamic propaganda meshed with the thinking of the Muslim Brotherhood and with the [thinking] of the Arab and Islamic parties that grew out of it. As a result, a new and strange kind of thinking spread through Muslim society, changing many [previous] behaviors and perceptions."Read more..."The veil is, therefore, a political issue. In two countries [Iran and Saudi Arabia], the political elite rules in the name of religion, and strives to propagate its own model [of Islam] - while at the same time [using religion] to guarantee the legitimacy [of its rule]. Both these countries imposed the wearing of the veil on women, presenting it as a sign of piety, whether the women wanted to [wear it] or not.
"[It is should be noted that] the sole aim of Muslim Brotherhood's way of thinking is to take political power. However, since [this movement] uses religion as its justification, it also has to provide an example of [proper] 'Islamic behavior'..., and '[Islamic] dress' is a central part of this.
So the hijab's all about fake piety, political Islam, and power. Hell, and all the time I thought it was some kind of magical cloth! Even though there's still Islamoapologists like Debra Bloomberg (or just another naive moonbat) trying to convince us that the Hijab is all about a show of faith and individuality.
But now we know differently, and that according to reformist Yemeni columnist Dr. Elham Mane'a, who writes regularly for the reformist website www.metransparent.com , espouses improvement of women's status, freedom of thought, a rationalist approach to the religious sources, and the right of humans, as rational beings, to decide their own futures - all that crap about the hijab is nothing more than garbage!
Posted by Richard at April 24, 2006 5:37 AM
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