For Your Information Canada
I have been writing about the ongoing story of Mukhtaran Mai, posting several entries about the courageous woman. In the one that I posted on June 17th, I expressed concern that people with the same mindset of those who ordered the atrocity, those who visited the atrocity upon her, and those who condone the atrocity will find their way here and bring their barbarism with them. I asked readers to consider voicing protest and said, "Scream loud and long about the outrage visited upon this woman and her sisters in faraway Pakistan. Scream on her behalf so that you may never find yourself, one day, screaming in self-defense."
Those people are encircling the globe already, and my last check on comments left at my blog showed that to be fact. I found quite an "interesting" comment left after my entry written back on March 15th about the Miss Canada Pakistan Pageant. Someone had written telling me they had begun to wear the hijab of their own free accord. The comment that was left immediately after that one is the one I want to draw to your attention. It was left by "anonymous", one of those bullying coward types who have not the courage to identify themselves when they spew hatred, and their comment is a threat, an outright threat. Is it directed at the person who said they had donned the hijab? Is it directed at me? Is it directed at you? Whichever way, the writer makes mention of Mukhtaran in such a way as to show that they know exactly what happened, and that they support it 100%. We traced this person and found that they had come to my site from the Rogers network right here in Canada. Here are their exact words: "you are wearing a useless hijab, just to call yoiur self pure. You may not even be nothing close to purity. You dont call your self a muslim. Apparently you just have taken over the fashion of wearing a scarf on your head, to call your self a muslim.
GO AND LIVE ON THE STREETS OF RURAL AREAS IN PAKISTAN, AND THEN CALL YOURSELF A MUSLIM. SEE WHAT TO WILL DO TO YOU EVEN IN YOUR SO CALLED HIJAB, JUST LIKE MUKHTAR MAI"
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Anne McLellan has been warning about public complacency here in Canada. The hatemonger who left that comment, who feels free to threaten others with the same outrage visited on Mai, is right here. Maybe they're someone you work with or live next door to. Maybe they're capable of, and planning more than you know.
It is time for you to get involved. Raise your voice and let it be known that you support freedom and the rights of all. Don't sit quietly and do nothing while the darkness creeps in.
Those people are encircling the globe already, and my last check on comments left at my blog showed that to be fact. I found quite an "interesting" comment left after my entry written back on March 15th about the Miss Canada Pakistan Pageant. Someone had written telling me they had begun to wear the hijab of their own free accord. The comment that was left immediately after that one is the one I want to draw to your attention. It was left by "anonymous", one of those bullying coward types who have not the courage to identify themselves when they spew hatred, and their comment is a threat, an outright threat. Is it directed at the person who said they had donned the hijab? Is it directed at me? Is it directed at you? Whichever way, the writer makes mention of Mukhtaran in such a way as to show that they know exactly what happened, and that they support it 100%. We traced this person and found that they had come to my site from the Rogers network right here in Canada. Here are their exact words: "you are wearing a useless hijab, just to call yoiur self pure. You may not even be nothing close to purity. You dont call your self a muslim. Apparently you just have taken over the fashion of wearing a scarf on your head, to call your self a muslim.
GO AND LIVE ON THE STREETS OF RURAL AREAS IN PAKISTAN, AND THEN CALL YOURSELF A MUSLIM. SEE WHAT TO WILL DO TO YOU EVEN IN YOUR SO CALLED HIJAB, JUST LIKE MUKHTAR MAI"
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Anne McLellan has been warning about public complacency here in Canada. The hatemonger who left that comment, who feels free to threaten others with the same outrage visited on Mai, is right here. Maybe they're someone you work with or live next door to. Maybe they're capable of, and planning more than you know.
It is time for you to get involved. Raise your voice and let it be known that you support freedom and the rights of all. Don't sit quietly and do nothing while the darkness creeps in.
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Now the person who posted the comment is too chicken to come forth and admit to it, after his words have been made public?
In one article, a woman named Rahman said this about the hijab:
"It is about modesty but runs deeper. It's a sense that physical appearance is not the most important thing, and by covering up you explore the spiritual part of yourself. The focus becomes who you are, not what you look like. Compare that to Western culture, where so much of self worth is tied to appearance and sexual attractiveness."
In contrast, most do not believe they should wear a burqa which covers their face, as some from strict Muslim cultures do. "I've had wonderful debates with women who wear them. They will argue that they are right, to the last."
All in all, there are different views as to what a hijab means. It means different things on an oppressive level, a political level, a religious level, and a personal level. Each opinion exists, and the ones that are not oppressive, I feel, are completely ok to be practiced. Many Muslim women I know do not wear one. One or two have worn one. They are just as powerful as the other women. It's a matter of choice.
I beg to differ.
What is choice?
Why was the hijab invented? To give women choice? If you chose to wear a symbol of oppression, are you oppressed? The women who choose to wear a hijab -- is that really their choice?
Sometime, a long time ago, someone made a choice and created the hijab. Since then, the people who choose to wear or make someone else wear the hijab have simply been supporting the choice made a long time ago.
Next, let's talk about free will.
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