What these Iraqis kidnappers are doing is nothing short of an act of criminal cowardice.
If they are so courageous why didn't they kidnap Saddam or one of his sons, why back when he was committing his calamities one after another?
They are all of sudden so courageous now that the US army jailed Saddam!
That is right; they are so courageous and strong. They can kidnap civilians such as contractors or journalists and cut their heads off in front of a video camera while wearing a veil!
And now they are so prominent that they are reaching out to help fellow Muslims in France who are French citizens by kidnapping two French civilians!
They are saving those French citizens from their horrible government which so far is wise enough to neither attack nor scavenger their county Iraq as he was invited to, so many times.
This French government who stood up to the USA and refused to be part of Iraq’s occupation.
This French government who paid the price in dollars. The Americans were so mad that they mounted a campaign against French that resulted in boycotting the French goods and bad mouthed France all over the place and they still do.
This French government who still stood his ground and refused to be part of so called coalition and called on the US to hand the keys of country back to the Iraqi people ASP.
But you know these Iraqi kidnappers are just so smart that the next smart thing they come up with is: to kidnap 2 inoffensive French civilian journalists.
Never mind that journalists that cover wars are among the few courageous people who put their lives in line in order to keep us informed on what goes on the ground, and in the case of the French the less likely to be biased ones since France is against this war in the first place.
But again these Iraqis kidnappers are so right; they have to get their moment TV fame!
Playing Robin Hood when they are nothing else but a fraud.
If every Iraqi has the choice between being a French citizen with right to protest and the right to freedom of speech and risk having his daughter’s head not covered for the school hours; or, be an abused citizen (with almost no rights) of Iraq, Saudia, Iran or Syria...etc and a life insurance that his daughter is covered from her head to her toes: I wonder if these kidnappers themselves would not choose to become French.
The Hijab(Veil), Muslims, & France
The France Senate adopted a bill that is banning students from wearing conspicuous religious attire, such as headscarves, skullcaps and large Christian crosses on school property.
This is something that is done equally Muslims, Jewish, and Christians are all treated alike: No religious distinguished attire on the school proprety. France adopted the laic system for their schools for years now.
So what is wrong with us Muslims? Why are we the only ones who are winning and complaining?May be because we have no experience in being part of a country of which citizens hold different beliefs.
Or may be it is because we are just so superior to everyone else that we don't play and nor do we accept the rules.
I challenge all those of us who are winning and complaining about France, all those who are screaming bloody murder because school girls in France will not have their heads covered the hours that they attend school; to raise their voices to speak up about the horrendous religious abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, the same age girls that live in some Muslim countries go through.
Don't know where to start: how about honor killing? How about violence against children and women?
I hear no Muslim protests about raped girls that are killed by family members in countries like Jordan, Syria or even Palestine and Muslims are screaming bloody murders for a head scarf?
I hear no Muslim voices about child labor and the horrible physical and sexual abuse of kids that are given by their impoverished families as workers in rich families’ houses. These are the same age girls that those living in France who’s only Big Problem now is no to wear a scarf for a few hours in day!
For the life of me I can’t comprehend how we Muslims do it all in the name of Allah: you don’t hear nothing about horrible crimes that are committed on daily basis in Muslim communities; yet every one is screaming about a general rule that applies to all on French School propriety: no religious attire!
I gather is any of the wallowing Muslims about this issue thought about it little before starting crying and pretending to be a victim, he will quick find that this rule protects his kids from being preached to another religion at school.
May be the French Government, since France is a Christian country in the first place, ought to. Let everyone wear whatever religious outfits they want to wear and preach Christianity to all!
This way of being a hypocrite might just set well with us Muslims because looking at the state of our affairs on the ground hypocrisy is our social mantra.
We have a major problem in Islam and it is called: Literalism. We have a tendency to pull the Koran texts at every single conversation! Because we don't know how, or we are too lazy, to use the box that we carry between our shoulders.
France is not asking Muslim girls/women who want to cover to take off their head scarf and wear some skimpy outfits instead.
France is saying no religious distinguished attire on the school propriety.Which means: you can still be modest all you want: you can pull your hair in the back of your head, still be covered from the shoulders to your feet with no problems.
What extremist hardliners are doing is: blowing things out of proportions and making it sound as if France is making the Muslims take off their clothes and go to school naked!
That is political propaganda and it is a loud of crap.But again, we Muslims, instead of thinking we follow like a heard of ships wallowing and crying: poor us look how victimized we are, because we are Muslims no body likes us, they hate us because we are Muslims!
It sounds to me like George Bush tag line: Blablablablabla....they hate our Freedoms!
Hijab does not enhance the dignity of women, if that was true put it on a donkey and see if it will turn into a dignified horse!
What dignified any human being are character, integrity and personal honor.You don't built character by hiding under a loud of fabrics. It never happened and never will.
Beside literalism in Islam we have another major problem: Supremacy.Who dares put Hijab with the Jewish skullcaps or the Christian cross, no, no, our Hijab is on much higher scale!
Do I dare ask why a piece of fabric Hijab has more value than a hat or a piece of jewelry?I would personally bit on the jewelry specially if it is gold, I can't help it I am a Moroccan! And I would put that tent called Hijab with the Jewish hat.
But may be there is another concept behind Hijab: let us cover the women so our weak men won't be attempted. The so called “Protection”
If you are a Saudian that is almost true as soon as they see a woman's ankle they chase after her. It is too magnetic for their abilities to hold it: cut them some slack!
But isn't that what they are doing in their home country? Aren't they the most prone to depravation and on the top list of prostitution consumers?
All of that despite the fact that women are covered in Saudia Arabia: Mandatory requirement to circulate anywhere, except few privileged quarters where western foreigners dwell.
Pretending that Hijab is about protection of a woman is a fraud argument. An offender who is looking for a victim hardly cares if the victim is lightly or heavily dressed. Offenders who commit reprehensible acts such as rape are sick and out of balance. It has nothing to do with a woman being covered or naked.
Those who make this argument back it up with the statistics of rape and assault in western countries; trying to prove that it is because women are not covered that we have these statistics.
This is a big fraud Argument because those who make it, play on the fact that we don’t have any statistics of how many there are of rape victims in countries where women are heavily covered. It implies that there are almost none, or supposedly much less than in countries in the west. By the way this is also the case for children abuse, Sida cases, abortions, etc….
Now for those who want to go at the bottom of thing it is easy to know why we don’t have those statistics: Because the rape victims in the Arab-Muslim countries don’t report to the police or to the local authorities. Even when family members know about it; it is all kept hush because it is a huge big deal. Not because of what happened to the victim but because of keeping the family name and honor “immaculate”!
Women are subject to retributions even when they are the victims in most of our Islamic countries and it goes anywhere from being considered “damaged goods forever”, to risking to be literally assassinated by a brother, a father, a cousin, or an uncle: Jordan, Palestine, Pakistan, Saudia, Syria, etc…
Victims of rape don’t tell none in most cases unless, they are forced to tell either because they are single and they become pregnant, or someone else tell on them. It is more dramatic for a young girls because she is suppose to be virgin for her wedding, if she is not: she is nothing but damaged good and a disgrace to her family and her wedding is cancelled on the spot in a big dramatic scandal.
If a married woman is raped, she will mostly tell none because she risks being divorced, losing her children, and be marked for the rest of her life.
Victims are punished some way or another for being raped, from loss of social status to risking being assassinated and the assassins go free acting like heroes: These are the Muslims state of affairs today in Muslim run countries where women wear Hijab!
So now, to shamelessly attack France and try to come up with some kind of explanation that some how if we only Muslim women wear the Hijab, we will for sure be safe from aggression anywhere in the world: is a Big Lie!
It is easy to check have a young woman wear a dark black Hijab and let her walk alone in some dark street in Riyad, Saudia, and see what will be of her!
Religious hardliners say big lies in order to sell their crap to the masses, and they keep repeating them so the masses who don’t think for themselves believe them and take what they say for the Ultimate Truth.
This whole Hijab business doesn’t seem to work all that well according to the experience on the ground for almost the last 100years.
More so, if we take into consideration that the countries who have the Mandatory Hijab despite being the wealthiest countries in the world for the last half century; achieved very little and are part of what is called the Third Word: shoulder in shoulder with the poor countries of Africa where people don't have enough to eat!
Waht Hijab has to do with religious abuse?
Hijab is religious abuse: because among us Muslims, there are those who can't stand it.So, I am thankful to France for the law of banning the Hijab on school proprieties because little girls like me, who don't agree with wearing that goofy outfit, at least get to have few hours of freedom at school.
What Hijab has to do with religious abuse: a small example: back to our Saudian friends, sometime this year, there was a fire in a school for girls again in Saudia Arabia, the little ones run for their lives and they were forced back to the buildings because they did not have time to grab the stupid Hijab; result they burned alive.
For what? Just because, the Almighty Allah would have been so pissed off, if these little girls were outside head free in the air for the short time that is need for them to be picked up by their parents; so he told these ignorant to force them back into the fire and have them burn alive.
See these kind of ignorant know Kuran verses so well that they can recite them without a book, but the one thing they don't know is: See with your heart and have some common sense.
That is what religious hardliners do, regardless who they are Muslims, Catholics, Jewish or else.Their God is always in some book, or some texts, he never makes it into their heart; because they never grow up to make the transition.
The essence of freedoms lays in understanding and respecting others freedoms too.The truth is we, today Muslims are totalitarians, literalists and supremacists and if we don't do something about correcting ourselves soon we will keep paying the price of our stubbornness and ignorance.
After all France is originally a Christian country and the fact that you can go to school in France and not be preached to Christian religion or any other religion as a matter of fact is a beautiful thing and a huge achievement on the part of French people and the French government.
Muslims in France ought to take advantage of this and learn from it instead of trying to bring their own Religion bias to schools.
Show me one Muslim country where if you are a Jew or a Christian you can send your kid to a public school and he will not be preached to Islamic religion as the “Only Way To Heavens”.
Humans are not perfects and they will never be. So there is no such thing as a completely safe world. To be safer Muslim women need to learn how to think for themselves and how to make it on their own and not to be sentenced for a life long jail under the old Arab-Bedouin tent: that what Hijab is.
This is something that is done equally Muslims, Jewish, and Christians are all treated alike: No religious distinguished attire on the school proprety. France adopted the laic system for their schools for years now.
So what is wrong with us Muslims? Why are we the only ones who are winning and complaining?May be because we have no experience in being part of a country of which citizens hold different beliefs.
Or may be it is because we are just so superior to everyone else that we don't play and nor do we accept the rules.
I challenge all those of us who are winning and complaining about France, all those who are screaming bloody murder because school girls in France will not have their heads covered the hours that they attend school; to raise their voices to speak up about the horrendous religious abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, the same age girls that live in some Muslim countries go through.
Don't know where to start: how about honor killing? How about violence against children and women?
I hear no Muslim protests about raped girls that are killed by family members in countries like Jordan, Syria or even Palestine and Muslims are screaming bloody murders for a head scarf?
I hear no Muslim voices about child labor and the horrible physical and sexual abuse of kids that are given by their impoverished families as workers in rich families’ houses. These are the same age girls that those living in France who’s only Big Problem now is no to wear a scarf for a few hours in day!
For the life of me I can’t comprehend how we Muslims do it all in the name of Allah: you don’t hear nothing about horrible crimes that are committed on daily basis in Muslim communities; yet every one is screaming about a general rule that applies to all on French School propriety: no religious attire!
I gather is any of the wallowing Muslims about this issue thought about it little before starting crying and pretending to be a victim, he will quick find that this rule protects his kids from being preached to another religion at school.
May be the French Government, since France is a Christian country in the first place, ought to. Let everyone wear whatever religious outfits they want to wear and preach Christianity to all!
This way of being a hypocrite might just set well with us Muslims because looking at the state of our affairs on the ground hypocrisy is our social mantra.
We have a major problem in Islam and it is called: Literalism. We have a tendency to pull the Koran texts at every single conversation! Because we don't know how, or we are too lazy, to use the box that we carry between our shoulders.
France is not asking Muslim girls/women who want to cover to take off their head scarf and wear some skimpy outfits instead.
France is saying no religious distinguished attire on the school propriety.Which means: you can still be modest all you want: you can pull your hair in the back of your head, still be covered from the shoulders to your feet with no problems.
What extremist hardliners are doing is: blowing things out of proportions and making it sound as if France is making the Muslims take off their clothes and go to school naked!
That is political propaganda and it is a loud of crap.But again, we Muslims, instead of thinking we follow like a heard of ships wallowing and crying: poor us look how victimized we are, because we are Muslims no body likes us, they hate us because we are Muslims!
It sounds to me like George Bush tag line: Blablablablabla....they hate our Freedoms!
Hijab does not enhance the dignity of women, if that was true put it on a donkey and see if it will turn into a dignified horse!
What dignified any human being are character, integrity and personal honor.You don't built character by hiding under a loud of fabrics. It never happened and never will.
Beside literalism in Islam we have another major problem: Supremacy.Who dares put Hijab with the Jewish skullcaps or the Christian cross, no, no, our Hijab is on much higher scale!
Do I dare ask why a piece of fabric Hijab has more value than a hat or a piece of jewelry?I would personally bit on the jewelry specially if it is gold, I can't help it I am a Moroccan! And I would put that tent called Hijab with the Jewish hat.
But may be there is another concept behind Hijab: let us cover the women so our weak men won't be attempted. The so called “Protection”
If you are a Saudian that is almost true as soon as they see a woman's ankle they chase after her. It is too magnetic for their abilities to hold it: cut them some slack!
But isn't that what they are doing in their home country? Aren't they the most prone to depravation and on the top list of prostitution consumers?
All of that despite the fact that women are covered in Saudia Arabia: Mandatory requirement to circulate anywhere, except few privileged quarters where western foreigners dwell.
Pretending that Hijab is about protection of a woman is a fraud argument. An offender who is looking for a victim hardly cares if the victim is lightly or heavily dressed. Offenders who commit reprehensible acts such as rape are sick and out of balance. It has nothing to do with a woman being covered or naked.
Those who make this argument back it up with the statistics of rape and assault in western countries; trying to prove that it is because women are not covered that we have these statistics.
This is a big fraud Argument because those who make it, play on the fact that we don’t have any statistics of how many there are of rape victims in countries where women are heavily covered. It implies that there are almost none, or supposedly much less than in countries in the west. By the way this is also the case for children abuse, Sida cases, abortions, etc….
Now for those who want to go at the bottom of thing it is easy to know why we don’t have those statistics: Because the rape victims in the Arab-Muslim countries don’t report to the police or to the local authorities. Even when family members know about it; it is all kept hush because it is a huge big deal. Not because of what happened to the victim but because of keeping the family name and honor “immaculate”!
Women are subject to retributions even when they are the victims in most of our Islamic countries and it goes anywhere from being considered “damaged goods forever”, to risking to be literally assassinated by a brother, a father, a cousin, or an uncle: Jordan, Palestine, Pakistan, Saudia, Syria, etc…
Victims of rape don’t tell none in most cases unless, they are forced to tell either because they are single and they become pregnant, or someone else tell on them. It is more dramatic for a young girls because she is suppose to be virgin for her wedding, if she is not: she is nothing but damaged good and a disgrace to her family and her wedding is cancelled on the spot in a big dramatic scandal.
If a married woman is raped, she will mostly tell none because she risks being divorced, losing her children, and be marked for the rest of her life.
Victims are punished some way or another for being raped, from loss of social status to risking being assassinated and the assassins go free acting like heroes: These are the Muslims state of affairs today in Muslim run countries where women wear Hijab!
So now, to shamelessly attack France and try to come up with some kind of explanation that some how if we only Muslim women wear the Hijab, we will for sure be safe from aggression anywhere in the world: is a Big Lie!
It is easy to check have a young woman wear a dark black Hijab and let her walk alone in some dark street in Riyad, Saudia, and see what will be of her!
Religious hardliners say big lies in order to sell their crap to the masses, and they keep repeating them so the masses who don’t think for themselves believe them and take what they say for the Ultimate Truth.
This whole Hijab business doesn’t seem to work all that well according to the experience on the ground for almost the last 100years.
More so, if we take into consideration that the countries who have the Mandatory Hijab despite being the wealthiest countries in the world for the last half century; achieved very little and are part of what is called the Third Word: shoulder in shoulder with the poor countries of Africa where people don't have enough to eat!
Waht Hijab has to do with religious abuse?
Hijab is religious abuse: because among us Muslims, there are those who can't stand it.So, I am thankful to France for the law of banning the Hijab on school proprieties because little girls like me, who don't agree with wearing that goofy outfit, at least get to have few hours of freedom at school.
What Hijab has to do with religious abuse: a small example: back to our Saudian friends, sometime this year, there was a fire in a school for girls again in Saudia Arabia, the little ones run for their lives and they were forced back to the buildings because they did not have time to grab the stupid Hijab; result they burned alive.
For what? Just because, the Almighty Allah would have been so pissed off, if these little girls were outside head free in the air for the short time that is need for them to be picked up by their parents; so he told these ignorant to force them back into the fire and have them burn alive.
See these kind of ignorant know Kuran verses so well that they can recite them without a book, but the one thing they don't know is: See with your heart and have some common sense.
That is what religious hardliners do, regardless who they are Muslims, Catholics, Jewish or else.Their God is always in some book, or some texts, he never makes it into their heart; because they never grow up to make the transition.
The essence of freedoms lays in understanding and respecting others freedoms too.The truth is we, today Muslims are totalitarians, literalists and supremacists and if we don't do something about correcting ourselves soon we will keep paying the price of our stubbornness and ignorance.
After all France is originally a Christian country and the fact that you can go to school in France and not be preached to Christian religion or any other religion as a matter of fact is a beautiful thing and a huge achievement on the part of French people and the French government.
Muslims in France ought to take advantage of this and learn from it instead of trying to bring their own Religion bias to schools.
Show me one Muslim country where if you are a Jew or a Christian you can send your kid to a public school and he will not be preached to Islamic religion as the “Only Way To Heavens”.
Humans are not perfects and they will never be. So there is no such thing as a completely safe world. To be safer Muslim women need to learn how to think for themselves and how to make it on their own and not to be sentenced for a life long jail under the old Arab-Bedouin tent: that what Hijab is.
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