For the Furtherance of Women’s Rights

Posted on October 28, 2009
Filed Under Doha, International, Iran, Muslim women, Muslimas, Muslims, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, islam, women, women as chattel, women's clothing, women's rights, women's veil | Leave a Comment

Cat in the Gulf writes:

The joy of tennis

Can someone tell me why end of season women tennis championship is held in Doha?? Ah yes, that is to “further women’s rights” in Qatar and supposedly in the Middle East in general.For the uninitiated, the girl on the left is Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis star. On the right is a lady whose rights are about to be furthered by the said event.

Utterly ridiculous.

posted by Bravecat @ 2:27 PM

2 Comments:

At 28/10/09 22:52, Snake said…

It is her “choice” to wear what she is wearing right now.

At 28/10/09 22:59, Bravecat said…

Yep. Although in this case, the only alternative to “choice” is “social suicide”.

The alternative, unfortunately, may also entail an “honor” killing! I happen to be a devout Orthodox Jew, orthodox married women cover their hair (with a snood, wig, or scarf), since they are little girls they are taught to dress modestly. Having said that, NO orthodox woman would be “honored” killed or would commit “social suicide” for not adhering to the dress code or for any other reason. And dressing modestly does not mean that a woman’s femininity is to be denied.

Many will argue that “honor killings” are really more a tribal custom rather than one prescribed by the Qur’an… Wasn’t Islam supposed to root out anything from the idolatrous past? Haven’t 1400 years of Islam been enough to civilize these tribal minds? In any case where does the Qur’an prescribe a woman wearing a burka?

The Qur’an in Sura 24:31 says:

And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments 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 the male servants not having need (of women), or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known[..]

Nowhere in the above or in any other Surah is such a commandment made. It sounds more like something demanded by a patriarchal society.

Apparently, today, some Muslims must consider themselves far more religious than their ancestors, since never in history have there been so many Muslimas – even throughout western lands – covering themselves from head to toe. Frankly, it does not show women’s emancipation at work it merely shows their men’s need to lord it over them! Look at Saudi Arabia or Iran’s morality police…

Chaim

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