One anarchist in a black ski mask and one muslim woman in a
niqab. One of them is breaking the law here in Sweden and it isn't the one wearing niqab. The muslim girl to the right is actually allowed to go to school in her veil but the anarcho-feminist to the left is not. Why? What's the difference? The anarcho-feminist choose to wear a ski mask and the muslim woman doesn't choose to wear
hijab? Probably not. Most muslims who wear hijab claims that they do that by their own choice. But is that really the case? How much does tradition, conformity and indoctrination matter? This is what the Quran says:
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And say to the believing women that they lower their gaze and restrain their sexual passions and do not display their adornment except what appears thereof. And let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms. And they should not display their adornment except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or those whom their right hands possess, or guileless male servants, or the children who know not women’s nakedness. And let them not strike their feet so that the adornment that they hide may be known. And turn to Allah all, O believers, so that you may be successful."
Al-Qur’an 24:31
On
this page the world famous Islamic preacher
Zakir Naik gives us his views about this topic. No big news but interesting enough. Here's a short quote about a rapist choosing between two twin sisters, one wearing hijab and the other a skirt or a "mini".
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Naturally he will tease the girl wearing the skirt or the mini. Such dresses are an indirect invitation to the opposite sex for teasing and molestation. The Qur’an rightly says that hijaab prevents women from being molested."
An indirect invitation!? To rape?
Since I'm a libertarian leftist myself and totally opposed to fundamentalism and fascism I wonder why so many among the
Swedish left support these fundamentalist muslim ideas and their demand that muslim women and girls should be allowed to wear (or maybe forced to wear) Niqab or
Burqa both in school and in public service?
Religious fundamentalists, both Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu, usually support right wing conservative ideas and often even fascist ideas. Why do the left support them? Would
Ali Esbati and his friends support fundamentalist christian and jewish demands that their women should be allowed/forced to wear a veil or an all-enveloping tent-like outer garment like a burqa so they don't tempt any males? If a fascist christian or jewish sect that demands that their female members wear a burqa like garment were banned in their home country and then tried to get political asylum in Sweden - would the Swedish left support their demands to continue that "tradition" here in Sweden? Do they support
female genital cutting too? Where do they draw the line? It's the same oppressive anti-female ideas behind both. It's time for the Swedish left to take a firm stand against religious fundamentalism and religious fascist movements instead of flirting with them. Fundamentalist muslims are not victims. Fascist Islamist groups are getting plenty of funding and support from both Saudi Arabia and Iran. They don't need the support of the Swedish left - they ought to be challenged by them instead. The ones who ought to get their support is the large group of secular and moderate muslims seeking asylum here.
