Showing posts with label veil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label veil. Show all posts

Monday, April 18, 2011

'London Taliban' targeting women not wearing veil !


We saw this - violence or threats of violence towards Muslim women not wearing veil - in Kerala and some Muslim universities. Even the supposedly secular IUML, an ally of secular Congress, was instructing its women candidates to wear veil. And it is sacrilegious in this country to ask questions on alliance between IUML and Congress (here and here).

It looks like Britain is learning certain things - taking inability to deal with Islamic extremism as sign of tolerance - from its former colony. One common feature to Britain and India is popularity of Deobandi sect of Islam whose ideology has inspired and produced Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan; in Britain, out of 1400 mosques, 650 mosques are operated by Deobandi sect. No wonder then, appeasement of Islamists never really works as their demands will only keep growing. It is not the first time that such reports of coercing Muslim women to wear veils have come out as in the past some Muslim women were fired from their jobs by shop owners for not wearing veils.

'Wear a headscarf or we will kill you': How the 'London Taliban' is targeting women and gays in bid to impose sharia law
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Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremists intent on imposing sharia law on parts of Britain, it was claimed today.

Other targets of the 'Talibanesque thugs', being investigated by police in the Tower Hamlets area of London, include homosexuals.

Stickers have been plastered on public walls stating: 'Gay free zone. Verily Allah is severe in punishment'.
Posters for H&M which feature women in bikinis and a racy poster for a Bollywood film have been defaced.
It is believed Muslim extremists are behind a spate of attacks being investigated by police, according to the Sunday Times.

An Asian woman who works in a pharmacy in east London was told to dress more modestly and wear a veil or the shop would be boycotted.
When she went to the media to talk about the abuse she suffered, a man later entered the pharmacy and told her: 'If you keep doing these things, we are going to kill you'.

The 31-year-old, who is not a practising Muslim, said she has since been told to take holiday by the pharmacy owners and now fears she may lose her job.

She said: 'Why should I wear a hijab (headscarf) or burqa? I haven't done anything wrong.'
Other incidents reported include the placing of stickers across the white-minority borough which state it is a 'gay-free zone' and the daubing of paint on posters for clothing shop H&M featuring women in bikinis.
Ghaffar Hussain, of the anti-extremism think-tank the Quilliam Foundation, told The Sunday Times that the intimidation was the work of 'Talibanesque thugs'.

He added: 'This minority think they have the right to impose their fringe interpretation of Islam on others.'
Three men have been charged with religiously-aggravated criminal damage in connection with some of the incidents, which have mirrored crude attempts at censorship in Birmingham.

Borough Commander of Tower Hamlets, Paul Rickett, said: 'I am saddened that there are a small minority of people who do not wish to respect the lifestyle choices of others.

'I would like to reassure the people of Tower Hamlets that we are investigating these incidents.
'At this stage there is no information to suggest any of the incidents are linked. Anyone found committing such criminal acts will face criminal proceedings.....................
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Muslim woman in France: "I will only obey French law if it does not contradict Islamic law".


In a world where media operates impartially, it is not difficult to see why Muslims are not integrating in to host countries they immigrated to. At the root of problem lies Sharia law, which touches even minute aspect of every day life of a devout Muslim, guiding Muslims. For Muslims to say that they do not obey laws contradicting sharia law, when in infidel majority countries, points to established norm: whether Muslims are in majority or minority, it is always others who have to change their life style to accommodate Muslims, Islamic life style. But what if, some host country bans some of those Islamic practices which are in contradiction with country's civilization? Logic dictates that Muslims either obey and live by law or migrate to a country where such practices are tolerated. Some French Muslim women, want to defy French Govt.'s ban on veiling:

For life, liberty and the burqa: Muslim women defy France's ban on full-face veils. (Reported by Deepthi Namasivayam)
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THEY are the women prepared to defy France for the burqa.

From today French police have the power to stop Muslim women wearing full-face veils and to threaten them with fines or prison if they refuse to expose their faces.

All over France posters have been put up reminding veil-clad women that “the Republic lives with its face uncovered”.

Last year, President Nicolas Sarkozy pushed through a controversial law banning Muslim women from wearing burqas or niqabs in public. He said the law was to increase security but claimed it would liberate Muslim women from the oppression of their veil.

Any woman who refuse to lift her veil can be taken to a police station, fined 150 euros ($205) and ordered to attend re-education classes.

Anyone found guilty of forcing a woman to wear face veils in public or in private faces a fine of 30,000 euros and a year in jail.

However, some women have vowed to defy the law.

“I will not obey it,” said Wahiba Mebrek, 25, from the suburb of Villepinte, north of Paris. “I will only respect laws of the French Republic which are not in contradiction with me, my religion and my faith,” she added.

She is angry the Government and media peddled this image of them as being oppressed. For her, it was a conscious decision, made by her and husband when they became devout Muslims eight years ago.

Violent reaction

Hind*, a 31-year-old single mother from the suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois outside Paris, switched from the “miniskirt to the veil” after converting to Islam six years ago.

She said that her wearing of the veil had provoked hostile, even violent reactions in the street. She was recently attacked in front of her daughter by a couple.

“People’s reactions weren’t as violent until this issue was mediatised. Now that the law has passed, they feel that their violent behaviour towards us is justified,” she said.

“People have the impression that we are totally cut off from the world, but we have normal relationships like everyone else, we are accessible."

Hind will not take off her niqab, if asked by police. “Never ever will I apply this law,” she said. “It is not up to the government to meddle in my private life and my beliefs.”

French officials estimate that about 2000 women, from a total Muslim population estimated at between four and six million, wear the full-face veil.

Many Muslims and human rights groups accuse Mr Sarkozy of targeting one of France's most vulnerable and isolated groups to signal to anti-immigration voters that he shares their fear that Islam is a threat to French culture.

Years of abuse

Other critics worry the law may be hard to enforce, since it had to be drawn up without reference to religion to ban any kind of face covering in public and since police officers will not be allowed to remove women's head coverings.

But for other women, wearing the veil was not a choice.

Zeina*, 31, was forced to wear the niqab by her abusive ex-husband. She lived with his abuse until one day, a neighbour saw her bruises and took her to a women’s refuge. She details the ordeal in her autobiography, Sous Mon Niqab (Under my Veil).

“When I wore the niqab, I felt excluded from the world, from society,” she said. “Taking it off was a sort of freedom, a liberty for me.”

But she opposes the law, saying it will further oppress women. Unable to wear their veil in public, Zeina fears their abuse may go unnoticed as they will be confined to their homes.

As for those women who wear their niqab in the street for Friday afternoon prayers at their local mosque, they too risk being fined.

This is what worries Mrs Mebrek.

“The veil is an exterior manifestation of my religion but in a secular country, I am free to do so,” she said. “All this will stop from April 11.”
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Note 1: Notice the name of reporter; it indicates reporter is of Indian and Hindu background.

Update: As usual, ever ready Muslims are always there to protest against perceived insults against them and their religion Islam. British Muslims arrested in burka ban protest in France

Friday, January 14, 2011

Sexual abuse and raping of British Girls by Muslim Men.


How long Non Muslims esp. politicians and media will deny the reluctance on part of Islamic world and Muslims to live on equal terms? This continual denial of Islam’s desire to dominate every other will extract a heavy price. It appears that no crime committed by UK Muslim men is sufficiently heinous to wake British up from their slumber to comprehend existential threat their civilization faces from Islamic fascism. It even seems their (British) institutions have colluded to conceal a crime wave of massive proportion, rooted in Islamic imperialism and attitude towards Non Muslims, from ordinary citizens.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Muslim Women wearing Veil....


Why do Muslim women wear veil? Because Allah said so in Koran, verses 33:59 and 24:31. Apart from it, there is no other reason. The reason it sustains this Islamic practice is male chauvinism. Below video is funny and disgusting; some people might say this but it is also testimony to sorry state of women in some countries. Some might say Muslim women wear it voluntarily but there have been numerous reports from Europe suggesting that Muslim women are being forced to wear.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Women in Islam.


Muslim apologists, including Muslim women, say that Islam has liberated women from pre Islamic oppression that prevailed in that time in Arabian Peninsula. They wanted every one to believe that Islam has given women their freedom and rights like right to divorce. But in reality, it is a different situation on the ground. One might have already heard about infamous triple talaq.

So, what is the position of Islam on women? When I thought on this, I felt it is much better to address like how Islam regards men? One wants the answer! It is like man is a walking Di*k on two legs. I felt deeply that position of women in Islam is nothing but reflection of Prophet Mohammad: He himself married 13 times and maintained sex slaves, with whom he had sex. Allah, all mighty, specifically reveled three verses ( 33:37, 33:50, 66:01) so that Prophet can satisfy his carnal desires. Of course some people say whole Koran is a reflection of his persona.

Thursday, July 15, 2010