Posted on 07/08/2007 9:26:34 AM PDT by GMMAC
Cross-dressing coward
David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Sunday, July 08, 2007
Should a man have the right to an opinion about how a woman dresses? We could argue about this all day, but the short answer is, yes. Women may obviously comment on what men wear, and I'm tired of conceding "rights" to people who do not recognize my own.
An example is the Pakistani policewoman in Islamabad last week who found Maulana Abdul Aziz wearing a full-length burka. She did not think this was an appropriate way for him to dress, and turned him over to her male colleagues for their opinion.
A bit of background might be supplied at this point. The imam in question is famous, at least in Pakistan. He is the firebrand who was (until very recently) leading prayers at the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in the capital city. He and his grey beard have established themselves as cult figures, especially among Aziz's students (all male), whose own sartorial practices include smart turbans, long beards and a selection of weaponry. More than a thousand of them were arrested in Islamabad this last week, and many killed, in the course of a disagreement with the authorities that involved the use of substantial firepower on the government side.
For comparison, imagine our Canadian authorities, with tanks and helicopters, fighting a pitched battle against several thousand armed choirboys and theological novices, under the instruction of some militant dean, encamped at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Ottawa, a few blocks away from our Parliament Buildings. Imagine them having taken umbrage against the exceedingly secular disposition of the Harper government, and demanding that the country be placed immediately under canon law, restricted to statutes of the seventh and eighth centuries -- with rallies by Christian militants to support them, from St. John's to Victoria, after dozens had been killed in related riots in downtown Karachi, I mean Montreal.
Can't imagine that? Oh come on, try.
This Aziz gentleman -- the one found wearing the burka -- fancies himself the Mullah Omar of a Pakistan that might be ruled the way Afghanistan was by the Taliban. He has never been shy in demanding armed resistance against the government of Pervez Musharraf. Those who find Gen. Musharraf's administration arrogant, corrupt, undemocratic, and so forth (I certainly do) might ask themselves in passing for whom they'd wish to vote. Musharraf or Aziz? It is not entirely clear which one would win a free election in Pakistan. You'd prefer some third candidate? So would I.
Now, why would such a manly man as Imam Aziz be cross-dressing like that? A man who had just inspired so many of his followers to surrender their lives to the steel of the Pakistan army rather than surrender the Lal Masjid? An unusual moment, my reader must agree, to be coming out of the closet.
Perhaps you have already guessed. This brave warrior for a "purified" Islam was in the act of fleeing the mosque. The noble "martyrdom" he had just enjoined upon his footsoldiers was not the fate he had envisioned for himself. Unluckily for him, a detachment of female police were doing fairly thorough searches on the women of the mosque, whom the authorities had gallantly allowed to depart from the field of carnage -- all properly attired in black, head to toe, under a humidex approaching 50C. And, well, how embarrassing!
Not that men like Aziz embarrass easily. According to them, all is fair in war, if not in love, and I'm sure Aziz would grant himself a fatwa permitting cross-dressing at the most convenient moments. People who find suicide bombings against non-combatants to be acceptable methods for advancing the Islamist cause can hardly be fastidious about escape tactics. Indeed, from what I'm able to discern, reading the blogs and e-mails of our allied soldiers fighting the Islamists in Iraq and Afghanistan, this method of making oneself invisible is a common practice among them, and may well have been the method by which such glamorous figures as bin Laden, Zawahiri, and the late Zarqawi repeatedly slipped from imminent capture.
In Britain, we learn, our enemy is now dressing in the lab coats of medical doctors from the National Health Service, having entered the country and the NHS easily, with medical qualifications from Iraq, Jordan, India and Saudi Arabia. Essentially the same tactic, and the same result, for they could expect no one to question their bona fides.
Clothing is important; we should have more opinions about it.
David Warren's column appears Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday.
© The Ottawa Citizen 2007
These carpet kissing con artists talk big but are just like the overwhelming number of Arabs; spineless cowards.
They incite their followers to blow themselves up for Allah but when was the last time you heard of any of them doing it? Osama bin Hidin’ spends all his time in caves in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some fearless leader he is.
Ike repeatedly chastised Patton for putting himself in grave danger by standing shoulder to shoulder with his troops at the front. THAT was a real leader. These spineless, blowhard dune c**ns are 180º opposite.
These carpet kissing con artists talk big but are just like the overwhelming number of Arabs; spineless cowards.Excellent description of these scumbags; excellent choice of words.
Why aren’t we using this to discredit these imams/terrorist leaders? They should have taken a dozen pictures/video of this guy and plastered them on every newspaper and television with a caption - Imam sends others to die while he sneaks away in a burkha with the women.
In fact I would run PSY OPS to discredit a lot of these imams - use our tech to put these guys in homosexual settings, as cross dressers, as secretly on the Mosad’s payroll...the possibilities are endless.
There are some great lines in this column. One example is this: “I’m tired of conceding “rights” to people who do not recognize my own.” Too many Muslims demand tolerance so they can impose their own intolerance, and it’s time the world woke up to this double standard.
Thanks,
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