Anyone who doubts the validity of the Stockholm Syndrome, should read the fevered responses to Danielle Crittenden’s posts about wearing the veil (a Saudi burka) on the Huffington Post. They are as terrifying as Crittenden is courageous.
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I don’t think the burqa/abayaa/chador is so much a symbol of oppression against women as it is indicative of cultures which see women’s bodies as vile or indecent.
there are women who strongly support the Islamist ways, because they are winners in that particular lottery: they rule the household, they dominate other women in the household, and they dominate their sons. Until you are an old lady, powerful within the clan, your position is always weak. Therefore your reaction to your sister’s or your daughter’s violation of the Clan Laws will be exceptionally rigid and violent. As the Quran says, there can be no ‘compassion’ in these matters, they are dead serious.
I would not be surprised to learn that the young Toronto girl murdered by her father and brother, for not wearing the niqab, was held down by her mother while the deed was done.
Its apparent Bush is not happy just water boarding.
now they want to try burka boarding
Nobody safe anymore!
If you go on a blind date and she’s wearing a burka
How does it work?
Is that what they mean by double blind test?
At some restaurants a burka may be considered a fire hazard.
i don’t know
I don’t think the burqa/abayaa/chador is so much a symbol of oppression against women as it is an admission that islamic men have no self control and are willing to rape anyone at anytime. This was a defense used by Islamic youths in Sydney and in Sweden and I have no reason to doubt them. The self control issue is apparent in other ways as well. Lapdances for the 9/11 bombers for example.
The imposition of Shi’ra law is the only way many of them can control themselves because it removes any and all temptation. The civilized West, filled with temptation of every variety, is both tempting and hell on Earth. That is why the US is the Great Satan, Satan is the tempter.
Or, it might be a symbol of oppression for the same reasion. Nobody wants their property/wife raped by others. It’s like a bike-lock or a car cover to protect your valuables from the rampaging hordes.
“I don’t think the burqa/abayaa/chador is so much a symbol of oppression against women as it is an admission that islamic men have no self control and are willing to rape anyone at anytime.”
I think it is a *statement* that men are not required to exercise any self control when they see a female who doesn’t follow the rules.
It is a sort of statement of license in reverse.
And slightly off topic, as a former feminist, I am PO’d by the left’s tacit acceptance of the cats-meat defense. (Witness, for example, Germaine Greer’s inability to speak out against the Sudanese custom of treating women like second-class citizens.)
I wanna tell them, “Guys, you can be pro-equality or you can be multi-cultural, but you cannot be both at once.”
I noticed this comment:
“The self control issue is apparent in other ways as well. Lapdances for the 9/11 bombers for example.”
I’ve read elsewhere that this was actually a way of ensuring that the hijackers wouldn’t back out. By sullying themselves then they’d have to become martyrs to get back in the good graces and get their 72 grapes.
Of course, that doesn’t negate that fact that they were all a bunch of depraved maniacs…
Western Big Feminism has been for “lowered consciousness” ever since the US armed forces freed the Taliban women.