The burqa is seen as an obligation among pious Muslims, as well as a restriction on women and their rights by Western standards. That said, it is no stretch to say that those women who support the wearing of the burqa also support Islamic doctrine as seen in the Qur'an, hadiths and sunna of Muhammad. Punishing those who insult anything having to do with Muhammad or Islam must be upheld as right and correct.
Blasphemy, or the insulting of Islam has those burqa-clad women standing and supporting the laws which penalize those who do the insulting. They walk the walk as far as sharia law and Islamic doctrine are concerned.
The problem is that what constitutes an insult could be anything, from casting a shadow on a Qur'an to not bathing in accordance with the rules of Muhammad. The insultee is the one who determines whether an insult has been committed, so one is forced to carefully choose words when expressing their voice.
This is censorship, plain and simple. Censorship by implied violence. Welcome to Islam.
Karachi (AsiaNews) - The women's wing of the Islamic movement Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has demonstrated on the streets of Karachi against possible amendments to the blasphemy law. The protest took place yesterday after Friday prayers: the crowd gathered in Mazar-e-Quaid - the National Mausoleum, better known as the tomb that houses the remains of the founder Ali Jinnah - and marched to the area of Numaish Chowrangi. The young women students - from different schools and institutions of the city - shouted slogans and brandished placards against those who want to change the "black law".
Addressing the crowd, Ghafoor Ahmed - a member of JI - confirmed that "no attempt to touch the law will be allowed", the spirit of the Pakistani students, he added, shows that the country "will soon become a true Islamic nation." The vice-president Ashraf Jalali, who led the protest, made it clear that any condemnation of Mumtaz Qadri - the murderess of the Punjab Governor Salman Taseer - will lead to further demonstrations and protests, because he is "a hero of the Muslim ummah".
Members of the fundamentalist movement also demanded the expulsion of all Vatican
officials in Pakistan, for what they call "interference" in internal affairs....
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Blasphemy, or the insulting of Islam has those burqa-clad women standing and supporting the laws which penalize those who do the insulting. They walk the walk as far as sharia law and Islamic doctrine are concerned.
The problem is that what constitutes an insult could be anything, from casting a shadow on a Qur'an to not bathing in accordance with the rules of Muhammad. The insultee is the one who determines whether an insult has been committed, so one is forced to carefully choose words when expressing their voice.
This is censorship, plain and simple. Censorship by implied violence. Welcome to Islam.
From AsiaNews.it Jan 29 by Jibran Khan
Karachi, women on streets in support of the blasphemy lawKarachi (AsiaNews) - The women's wing of the Islamic movement Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has demonstrated on the streets of Karachi against possible amendments to the blasphemy law. The protest took place yesterday after Friday prayers: the crowd gathered in Mazar-e-Quaid - the National Mausoleum, better known as the tomb that houses the remains of the founder Ali Jinnah - and marched to the area of Numaish Chowrangi. The young women students - from different schools and institutions of the city - shouted slogans and brandished placards against those who want to change the "black law".
Addressing the crowd, Ghafoor Ahmed - a member of JI - confirmed that "no attempt to touch the law will be allowed", the spirit of the Pakistani students, he added, shows that the country "will soon become a true Islamic nation." The vice-president Ashraf Jalali, who led the protest, made it clear that any condemnation of Mumtaz Qadri - the murderess of the Punjab Governor Salman Taseer - will lead to further demonstrations and protests, because he is "a hero of the Muslim ummah".
Members of the fundamentalist movement also demanded the expulsion of all Vatican
officials in Pakistan, for what they call "interference" in internal affairs....
Read it all
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It's interesting when women support or convert to Islam. The left wrestled with this problem decades ago, when it still had colonialist attitudes, thinking that people in faraway countries ought to take up liberal, secular ideas and 'liberate' themselves from 'backward' ideas like Islam - especially women. Then came relativism. They noticed how many women consciously chose Islam, without coercion, in countries like Egypt, Malaysia and so on. Today, only the most dogmatic old liberal (Richard Dawkins?) would mindlessly diss Islam. The right has some catching up to do. First, it has to liberate itself from Zionism. That time is coming...
Oh I don't know Mr. Knott. Somehow I think that if Christianity or say the Pope for example, ordered the killing of Catholics who decided to leave Catholicism, I suspect that the outcry from the Left against Catholicism and the Pope, would be heard quite loudly. Christianity endures constant criticism and yet no one orders the death of the person who does the criticizing. Somehow stoning a woman to death for being raped and please understand that approximately 85 percent of the women jailed in Islamic countries are there because they reported a rape, which was than interpreted as adultery or unlawful intercourse. To me no matter who orders the murder or the incarceration is an extremist. Obviously you have never worn a burqa, the niqab, or the khimar. I have and it is not a pleasant experience in 120 degree heat. It is also not a pleasant experience knowing that you could be jailed or beaten if some part of your garment should blow open and expose some part of your "evil", "sinful", "seductive" female body. You have never lived with that fear. I have, and have known many women who know that fear. Would you defend that requirement if suddenly the Lutherans ordered all of their female members to drape every inch of their bodies in black cloth, especially on pain of being beaten or jailed? Somehow I doubt that your feelings of tolerance and good will would not extend to Christians making those demands. Besides it is well known, by your own words and by your affiliations, that you are anti-Semitic and a Judeophobe. You are far from impartial in your judgments and opinions; and perhaps a chauvinist and a misogynist for approving of the abuse of women.
You might be interested in the definition of misogyny:"Misogyny is a central part of sexist prejudice and ideology and, as such, is an important basis for the oppression of females in male-dominated societies. Misogyny is manifested in many different ways, from jokes to pornography to violence to the self-contempt women may be taught to feel for their own bodies."
Michael Flood defines misogyny as the hatred of women and notes:
"Though most common in men, misogyny also exists in and is practiced by women against other women or even themselves. Misogyny functions as an ideology or belief system that has accompanied patriarchal, or male-dominated, societies for thousands of years and continues to place women in subordinate positions with limited access to power and decision making. Aristotle contended that women exist as natural deformities or imperfect males. Ever since, women in Western cultures have internalized their role as societal scapegoats, influenced in the twenty-first century by multimedia objectification of women with its culturally sanctioned self-loathing and fixations on plastic surgery, anorexia and bulimia."
Mr. Knott, I need to say one more thing. While I admire the exhortation to modesty for women in Islam, I disagree when that advisement become law, and law that incurs extreme penalties when for some reason that mandate is broken, whether accidental or intentional. I dislike when that exhortation to modesty is not applicable to the male of the species. I as most people do, value free will, I value the right to question, to disagree, to protest, and to receive equal treatment under the law. That does not happen in Islam.
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