Dutch MP Jeanine Hennis - from the right-wing liberal party VVD, the largest party in the current government - is calling for a ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves by public servants who work at town halls. The politician says all religions are equal in her eyes and that the ban should cover all religious symbols.
Ms Hennis made her comments during an interview with free newspaper De Pers. “When do you wear the headscarf? I’d like to instigate a debate on the matter - an open discussion on the separation between church and state,” she said.
The VVD MP said she’d also like universities and schools to participate in the debate but the coun try's Christian parties (three in parliament) stand in the way of bringing the subject into the open. “They regard it as an infringement on freedom of religion,” she added.
Rejecting the stance of the Christian parties, Ms Hennis argues that freedom of religion is enshrined in and protected by the law.
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(c) Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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Women in Islam are just for breeding and for sex, like animals! Such is the root of such evil, which is Islam! Children & women in Islamic culture, are treated as complete property of men as sexual slaves and breeders (the forcing of children to wear the veil is actually sexual grooming for Islamic Pedophiles!), to be raped at will! After all, that's one of the main reason (besides mass murdering the Jews and raping their women/girls) why the Arabic Mohammed created Islam, because his violent and primitive Arabic culture does not want women or children/girls to be free individuals as graced and taught by our Lord Jesus Christ! And through modern education, women/girls learn about freedom including to speak up firmly against any oppression - hence the hatred of these Muslim savages towards education for women!
Assalamualaikum maklang,
Ni anak sedara maklang, kenapa maklang jadi macam ni? ingtlah Allah,tak baik maklang tuduh orang Islam macam tu. Kalau maklang kata orang Islam ni jahat, maklang yang tinggalkan keluarga dan anak maklang sendiri ni baik sangat ke? Sanggup maklang lepaskan tanggungjawab ke atas ANAK KANDUNG maklang sendiri.
Kalau maklang sayangkan kami, maklang balik la sini, jumpa tok dengan tokwan. sape la ibu bapa maklang kalau bukan mereka. maklang pikir la sendiri, dunia dan akhirat. saya tahu dalam diri maklang masih ada maklang yang saya kenal dulu. maklang yang memperjuangkan hak-hak Islam.
maklang tolong la fikir elok-elok, Allah maha Besar lagi maha mengetahui. Kami rindu maklang sangat, balik ke kepangkuan keluarga.
Assalamualaikum
Women in Islam are just for breeding and for sex, like animals! Such is the root of such evil, which is Islam! Children & women in Islamic culture, are treated as complete property of men as sexual slaves and breeders (the forcing of children to wear the veil is actually sexual grooming for Islamic Pedophiles!), to be raped at will! After all, that's one of the main reason (besides mass murdering the Jews and raping their women/girls) why the Arabic Mohammed created Islam, because his violent and primitive Arabic culture does not want women or children/girls to be free individuals as graced and taught by our Lord Jesus Christ! And through modern education, women/girls learn about freedom including to speak up firmly against any oppression - hence the hatred of these Muslim savages towards education for women!
Wearing a burka does not prevent Muslim women ‘engaging in everyday life’ in Britain. Baroness Warsi defended the right of Muslim women to ‘choose’ to wear the burka. She suggested that many Muslim women choose to wear the veil of their own free will. ‘Why should we tell women what to wear? What it boils down to is choice. If women don’t have a choice over what to wear then they are oppressed.
But if a woman has a choice, and she chooses to wear whatever she chooses to wear then she’s not oppressed is she? She’s choosing what she wants.’
Critics claim that the burka alienates Muslim women from the rest of society. But Lady Warsi said the burka did not act as a barrier in itself. She added: ‘There are women who wear the burka who run extremely successful businesses – internet businesses, which don’t actually require you to be there face to face.’I don't believe it's for the state to say what we can and cannot wear. Any woman who supports the burkha should wear one.
There is a social and economic pressure on Muslim women not to cover themselves with Hijab or Niqab. Syeda Warsi is a member of the Toy Cabinet becaus she does not cover herself with Hijab or Niqab. Only those Muslim women who are having post of responsibility are those who do not cover themselves. Only those Muslim women recieve OBE, who do not cover themselves. Banning the veil or blocking the building of minarets would alienate the Muslim community and threaten social cohesion. There is no need for the British Establishment to ban Niqab because it is a Munafiq society. Those westen European countries who have banned Niqab are Kaffir.
Some young Muslim feminists consider the hijab and niqab political symbols, a way of rejecting Western excesses such as binge drinking, casual sex and drug use. Which is more liberating: being judged on the length of your skirt and size of your breasts, or on your character and intelligence?
A careful reading of the Qur’an shows that just about everything Western feminists fought for in the 1970s was available 1,400 years ago to Muslim women, who are considered equal to men in spirituality, education and worth. When Islam offers women so much, why are Western men so obsessed with Muslim women’s attire? Even British government ministers Gordon Brown and John Reid have made disparaging remarks about the niqab, and they hail from Scotland, where men wear skirts.
“common sense” not to wear the niqab because it makes social relations “more difficult.” Nonsense. If this were the case, why are cell phones, e-mail, text messaging and fax machines in daily use?
Covering ones body up does not reduce their intelligence or physical and mental capabilties in running their home, raising their kids, getting a degree, making money, being an informed member of society or their social interaction with other fellow humans. The niqaab does not make them inferior.
Why are people reluctant to associate with us as willingly and openly as with other Muslim women who don't cover their face? We don't bite or are any different. Is is because they are afraid that we are more 'terroristically' inclinded because we choose to follow our religion more closely? On the contrary, people who follow their religions closely, any relgion, realize that they are under more obligation to uphold the sanctity of their faith under all circumstances and no religion teaches violence.
To make a long argument short , women who cover their face and observe Niqab, are as normal as anyone else. If we are the victims then we are indeed the victims of mass propoganda and false advertising againts Muslim women that has caused this breach of trust between us and the rest of the world.
We are very normal, we are very human and we are as intelligent as anyone else....the real beauty and inner strength lies within the mind. By wearing Hijab or niqab, a Muslim woman is able to confidentially project her opinions and ideas without having the pressure of being secretly or publicly critiqued of their body.
Today, our society encourages women to show off their bodies, and not show off their brains. Female models are often underweight, and the media tells us this is the way women should look like!! dont make me laugh!!!!
IA
http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk/
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.Let them wear their headscarves; it might be good for the textile industry and business.