Posted on 11/27/2008 10:12:33 AM PST by forkinsocket
Pull your brakes. Put your foot under. No, under. Set the pedal. Now release the brakes...” Most people remember learning to ride a bike. It is easier when you are 5 and not wearing a full hijab. It is also easier when small boys are not whizzing past on mini-BMXs laughing at you as their parents, on the way to Saturday morning shopping, stare and mutter under their breath.
The participants in Britain's only known Muslim women's cycling club are having their weekly lesson in a small park close to the East London mosque. “Most have never ridden,” says Erika Severina, their cycling instructor. “Some make excuses, such as saying their clothes aren't suitable, but we've found bikes to accommodate that. Others don't want to ride outside. But now we've got them in parks and on back roads.”
Learning to ride turns out to be one of the lesser hurdles the group faces. Women from other backgrounds and faiths have taken part, but most are religiously observant Muslims and wear full Islamic dress. The group was formed shortly before the July 7 bombings in 2005 - and in the aftermath it was not an easy time to take to the streets of London clad in a veil.
Even more off-putting is the significant disapproval the women face from their own community. “Women should not be riding bikes. They are stimulating themselves. If they want to stimulate themselves they should get a man,” says one Asian market trader on the pavement outside the Jagonari Women's Educational and Resource Centre in Whitechapel, where the cycling group is based.
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They are stimulating themselves. If they want to stimulate themselves they should get a man,” says one Asian market trader
The islamification of Britain continues apace.
“Even more off-putting is the significant disapproval the women face from their own community. “Women should not be riding bikes. They are stimulating themselves. If they want to stimulate themselves they should get a man,” says one Asian market trader on the pavement outside the Jagonari Women’s Educational and Resource Centre in Whitechapel, where the cycling group is based.”
Fantastic “religion” ya got there.
Good for them. There are Muslim women at my gym. Not a lot but some. And as far as stimulation of that area, trust me and I’ve read a lot for long distances, it numbs that area if it does anything. (female here).
They would be astounded at how much easier everyday tasks become, when you wear appropriate clothing for the activity.
I thought at first they meant motorcycles. I was trying to picture competition-leather burkhas with lots of zippers.
The ‘Burka’ is not traditional. It was started it the 1970’s as part of the separatist movement of the Wahhabists. Women were encouraged to wear them in Western societies to stand apart from the host culture, as men were suddenly required to wear beards and the ‘night shirt.’
And here we celebrate them, because they're learning how to ride a bike!! Ooh, how exciting.
Kiss good-bye to Western Civilization.
Women riding bicycles in gunny sacks, a fool suggests they are masturbating, and more of their ilk kill innocents in Bombay. I wish I had never heard of their backward kind.
Wow, what a bunch of rebels. Go girls!
In the photo it did not appear that they were dressed in such a way as to make riding more difficult. Basically they were wearing what appeared as 1920’s gym clothing and a wind scarf. Half of them were not even wearing a jibjab.
Muslims are the most sexually dsyfunctional bunch of a-holes in the world. Its always about sex withem.
This concept could go in all kinds of crazy directions in terms of innuendo.
Stimulated muslim women get a man, stimulated muslim men get a goat or a boy.
And all because we have not had the leadership to swerve the oil weapon out of their grasp.
The banker of the world that led its industrialization through innovation bows down to one crop economy whose participants,without oil wealth, would be seen as the dead end that they are.
100 percent correct
I have some incredibly fundie/sexually frustrated cousins in my family, who spout all sorts of nonsense but are looking at porn before going to bed
Those of us who enjoy the world that God gave us tend to be a bit more balanced and mentally stable. :)
Thankfully for us, that is about 99.999 percent of Muslims in America who have integrated quite well and feel part of the American dream and American exceptionalism
In England though, there are going to be some serious issues very soon. 7/5/05 was just a start over there
Not if he keeps beating the S*** out of them.
It’s because that and cooking are all the women are good for. They can also serve as a punching bag as well.
If 7/5/05 was just a start over there, what was 9/11 here?
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