Posted on 01/13/2006 9:53:09 PM PST by KDD
On my wall, I have a picture of a Muslim woman shrouded in a burka.
Beside it is a picture of an American beauty contestant, wearing nothing but a bikini.
One woman is totally hidden from the public; the other is totally exposed. These two extremes say a great deal about the clash of so-called "civilizations."
The role of woman is at the heart of any culture. Apart from stealing Arab oil, the impending war in the Middle East is about stripping Arabs of their religion and culture, exchanging the burka for a bikini.
I am not an expert on the condition of Muslim women and I love feminine beauty too much to advocate the burka here. But I am defending some of the values that the burka represents for me.
For me, the burka represents a woman's consecration to her husband and family. Only they see her.
It affirms the privacy, exclusivity and importance of the domestic sphere.
The Muslim woman's focus is her home, the "nest" where her children are born and reared. She is the "home" maker, the taproot that sustains the spiritual life of the family, nurturing and training her children, providing refuge and support to her husband.
In contrast, the bikinied American beauty queen struts practically naked in front of millions on TV. A feminist, she belongs to herself. In practice, paradoxically, she is public property. She belongs to no one and everyone. She shops her body to the highest bidder. She is auctioning herself all of the time.
In America, the cultural measure of a woman's value is her sex appeal. (As this asset depreciates quickly, she is neurotically obsessed with appearance and plagued by weight problems.)
As an adolescent, her role model is Britney Spears, a singer whose act approximates a strip tease. From Britney, she learns that she will be loved only if she gives sex. Thus, she learns to "hook up" rather than to demand patient courtship and true love. As a result, dozens of males know her before her husband does. She loses her innocence, which is a part of her charm. She becomes hardened and calculating. Unable to love, she is unfit to receive her husband's seed.
The feminine personality is founded on the emotional relationship between mother and baby. It is based on nurturing and self-sacrifice. Masculine nature is founded on the relationship between hunter and prey. It is based on aggression and reason.
Feminism teaches woman that feminine nature has resulted in "oppression" and that she should convert to male behavior instead. The result: a confused and aggressive woman with a large chip on her shoulder, unfit to become a wife or mother.
This, of course, is the goal of the social engineers at the NWO: undermine sexual identity and destroy the family, create social and personal dysfunction, and reduce population. In the "brave new world," women are not supposed to be "nest" makers, or progenitors of the race. They are meant to be neutered autonomous creatures that indulge in sex for physical pleasure, not for love or procreation.
At his press conference on Sunday, Donald Rumsfeld said that Iranian women and youth were restive under the rule of the Mullahs. He implied that the US would soon liberate them. To Britney Spears? To low-rise "see-my-thong" pants? To the mutual masturbation that passes for sexuality in America?
Parenthood is the pinnacle of human development. It is the stage when we finally graduate from self-indulgence and become God's surrogates: creating and nurturing new life. The New World Order does not want us to reach this level of maturity. Pornography is the substitute for marriage. We are to remain stunted: single, sex-starved and self-obsessed.
We are not meant to have a permanent "private" life. We are to remain lonely and isolated, dependent on consumer products for our identity, in a state of perpetual courtship.
This is especially destructive for woman. Her sexual attraction is a function of her fertility. As fertility declines, so does her sex appeal. If a woman devotes her prime years to becoming "independent," she is not likely to find a permanent mate.
Her long-term personal fulfillment and happiness lies in making marriage and family her first priority.
Feminism is another cruel New World Order hoax that has debauched American women and despoiled Western civilization. It has ruined millions of lives and represents a lethal threat to Islam.
I am not advocating the burka but rather some of the values that it represents, specifically a woman's consecration to her future husband and family, and the modesty and dignity this entails.
The burka and the bikini represent two extremes. The answer lies somewhere in the middle.
Bikini - voluntarily worn
Burkah - worn or else
Another confused Chrislamic
A 4 year old article from a moron. Huh?????
I did not read the article.
I just went right to the pictures.
I vote for the Bikini!
This guy's a wacko! One of the nicest of them. Still he is strange.
Umm no, the answer lies in advocating a free society. In America you can wear a burka if you want, in a Muslim society you'll get stoned to death for wearing a bikini.
Is the answer "somewhere in the middle" if you merely beat the hell out of the woman?
Is this the same article or is he just using that worn out, pun intended, phrase again?
This guy has a PhD and he hasn't realized there is no oil flowing from Iraq to the U.S.? What a complete idiot.
Sure, she's their property, to be beaten and raped by male kinfolk.
What century is this jerk living in?
So that is what is under the Burkah.
HAHAHAHAHA! I LOVE people who try to claim that the burqa empowers women!
You know what the justification is wearing it? So they won't be viewed as women, but as equals! How sad is it that, in order to be viewed as equals, they have to cover up what makes them a woman in the first place? Says a LOT about Islamic views of women, no matter what you think.
In the meantime, I'm gonna continue to wear my low-cut tank tops, thank you very much!
Apart from stealing Arab oil
Stopped reading there. Nice pic though. The one on the left I mean.
If we have stolen Arab oil, then why does it cost so much?
The author is a buggarwit.
The woman in the bikini is free to work, read, write, acquire an education, etc.
The woman in the burkah is free to be treated like chattel, at best.
As would most.
With that it appears that we have reached the outer limits of any discussion of cultural extremes in different societies. High noise level on this thread though.
The loss of our own traditional values and practices in this country have led to our own societal pathologies. At one time this was a matter of great concern to conservatives.
Read the very first episode of A Thousand Nights and a Night (it used to be called The Arabian Nights). What is the theme of that episode? Cuckoldry and revenge.
What is the bikini an external manifestation of?
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