Shrouded
Shaaz Mahboob at British & Global Muslims for Secular Democracy:
Behold the military’s pet and Islamist prime minister of Pakistan #ImranKhan and the mindset he carries.
Taslima also remarks on the white cloth object next to him:
Former playboy ended up living with a ghost! pic.twitter.com/76OPblsTGn
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) August 19, 2018
Pic 1: Look at that harlot flaunting those bewitching eyes! Practically inciting men to wickedness in the presence of her husband and master!
Pic 2: Ah, that’s better. Allahu Akbar!
Yeah, I always think heavy eye makeup under a burka, which seems to be surprisingly common, seems incongruent.
That second picture is something else. Maybe strict Muslim men will next make women just completely cover their faces and be led on [some fancy Arab word for a leash]es?
Skeletor, @2
My eldest newphew lived in Israel in the 1990s, he mentioned that often Muslim women wore high heels under their black tents. It’s not so much incongruent as a tiny rebellion.
RJW, I sort of figured that was the case.
I personally would rather see women that neither feel compelled to put on a burka or makeup.
Skeletor,
Well, I haven’t heard about ‘makeup police’, so there’s no equivalent.
When I was in Oman I noticed that the markets were full of brightly-coloured gauzy sequined dresses. I had no idea who wore these until I talked to a woman in a chador, who told me two things. First, women wear whatever they want under the chador, and in that place and time it was usually some bright gauzy thing–they wear it around the house or in private, then throw the chador on when they go out in public. Second, she appreciated wearing the chador–‘everything goes with black’, it wasn’t a hassle to get ready for work in the morning.
Yeah, right. I wear black a lot, and agree that everything goes with it – but I do not feel compelled to cover my whole body in a black robe so that no one can actually see the things I use to accessorize the black (today I am in basic black with a brightly colored scarf – everyone can see the scarf. And my eyes. And my lower arms).
This is the sort of thing we hear from burka apologists. Yeah, easy to get ready in the morning. Really? My hard thing about getting ready in the morning is finding two socks that match. Other than that, it only has to be hard if you want it to. Choosing how you dress being hard is not an argument for shoving yourself into a black bag.
iknklast, I’ve also heard apologists say that the hijab is the perfect garment for bad hair days, and is a quick fix for pesky skin blemishes. All superficial excuses to (ironically) cover up the real reason for such oppressive garments.
AoS – yeah. I have hats. Those work pretty well for bad hair days, and act to make me look like me, not like some walking bag. Stupid arguments are stupid. You’re right, it’s superficial, and a lot of that is because the left doesn’t want to criticize anyone that is not Western. Western automatically equals imperialist (even when it doesn’t) and all wrong; Non-Western should automatically be respected. It’s lazy.
Some things about the West are good…some are bad. Some things about the Non-West are good…and some are bad. But it can take real work to sort them out.
So we get easy, simplistic answers. Anyone who questions burkas is “anti-Muslim”. Anyone who questions gender essentialness is “anti-trans”. Anyone who questions the prevailing wisdom that the Trump voter is tired of being disenfranchised, forgotten, and ignored, and suggests that maybe they are bigoted and ugly and have actually gotten way too much press is “coastal elite” – which, for some strange reason, automatically means “bad”.
This country…this world…has lost the ability to actually think (if it ever actually existed).
iknklast
“Non Western should automatically be respected. It’s lazy.”
It’s also patronising and inherently racist, an echo of the “Noble Savage” fantasies of earlier generations. The ‘natives’ should be left to their misogynist and brutal customs as it would be racist to interfere. Of course, Western ‘feminists’ won’t ask the victims of these cultural traditions what their opinions are.
Ad hominem attacks are,regrettably, standard these days. Eg I’m concerned about the high immigration rate into my country however it’s extremely difficult to discuss the issue without being accused of racism. Virtue signalling is a national disease.
RJW, re “It’s also patronising and inherently racist, an echo of the “Noble Savage” fantasies of earlier generations. The ‘natives’ should be left to their misogynist and brutal customs as it would be racist to interfere’; there’s also more than a smidgen of the racism of low expectations, treating ‘them’ as we treat children because ‘they don’t know any better’.