Posted on 01/21/2008 8:42:42 AM PST by forkinsocket
"As Muslims, we have a right to be racist and sexist," says Zarqa Nawaz, creator of the hit Canadian TV comedy, Little Mosque on the Prairie.
The Muslim comedian was making a joke with serious intent in Vancouver Friday as she talked about the hypocritical reactions many in the West have to Muslims' misdeeds and foibles.
Speaking to about 1,000 people at the University of B.C., Nawaz said she thinks the only reason fundamentalist Mormons who illegally practise polygamy in the Kootenay region of B.C. are allowed to stay in Canada is "they're not Muslims." (In some foreign cultures, Muslims practise polygamy).
Wearing an elegant hijab, Nawaz also said she found it amazing that while Muslim women are condemned for wearing burkhas over their faces, few are upset when Western women are made to feel unattractive or ashamed for refusing to wear little or no clothes.
Nawaz's talk kicked off a St. John's College lecture series titled Manufacturing Islam.
The creator of the internationally syndicated TV show talked about how Hollywood actress Rachel McAdams was sent home after she showed up for a photo shoot with Vanity Fair and refused a demand to take off all her clothes if she wanted to join some other hot actresses on the magazine's cover.
"Every woman should have the right to wear what she wants to wear," said Nawaz, to applause from the ethnically diverse audience.
Nawaz, whose TV show includes both Muslim and non-Muslim characters who are racist and otherwise imperfect, says it's difficult when many people in the West act as if one Muslim who does something sexist, bigoted or violent is stereotypical of all Muslims.
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Sure you do. With my size 12s buried in your butt hole up to my ankle.
And thats how we need to handle these POSs.
No culture of fascism will be established through Takiyya in America.
Tkae the mad Mo and ham out of Islam and what’s left?
She should thank her lucky stars she’s in Canada. If she was in S.A., she’d be stoned by now.
Being forced to wear a burqua so that all women "are equal" in the looks department is hardly a reason for celebration.
And in the West we are called "prudes" and "puritanical" when we address the sexualization of the media and the crass culture sold to us by the big department stores.
But no one advocates a death sentence for being seen in public with a bare ankle or public flogging for being raped.
I think it is legal to get stoned in Vancouver.
The speaker thinks it’s “appalling” that a town passes laws against people who subjugate wpmen? Is this chick fer real?
That is the basic problem with Muslims, the claim that their religin trumps the basic human right to life and liberty. If my religion demands I eat human flesh or be atended to by slaves, too darn bad for me. If your religion demands men can have their way with nonconsenting females, and beat or murder women who displease them, too darn bad for you. Those practices are illegal. Get it? Kapish?
Kufir may be seized in jihad (holy war) and taken back to Islamic territories where they are divided up as slaves. It is permissible for a slave owner to have sex with his slaves. The imam assure us that this is to show the slave that he loves her.
Islam is the cult of a conquering warlord. A deceiver who acknowledged the existence of Jesus Christ and denied His divinity, His death, and His resurrection. Mohammed was an antiChrist figure.
There can be no reformation of Islam. Mohammed was the last prophet. Islam law may fall out of favor but it is always the law of muslims and it is heresy to change Islamic law.
The real reformation for “moderate” muslims is to reject Mohammed’s hijacked Bible and return to the original text as Jews or Christians.
Here we have an example of why it is practically impossible to deal with the "logic" of the middle east.
First, it is the perfect right of Rachel McAdams not to pose nude and it is the perfect right of Vanity Fair not to include her if she doesn't follow their guidelines. In what way does that make her "feel bad?"
Second, if every woman should have the right to dress as she pleases, Nawaz should go live in her muslim-dominated countries, where islam is taken seriously, and "dress as she wants," and see the result.
She seems to believe that humor will make totalitarianism more palatable. She has an audience. She may be right.
Those practices are illegal under man’s law but they are perfectly acceptable under the “true” law of Islam.
This is the culture clash. Islamic imperialism expanding into the West.
All muslims bow to Mecca 5 times every day. None of them speak out against the human rights abuses in Mecca or Saudi Arabia. NONE. They bow in allegiance to their capital.
Imam say that it is forbidden for mulsims in the West to serve in combat against muslim nations. REGARDLESS of the reason for war. Assimilation into a Western identity is to be rejected.
They are here as missionaries, not to experience cultural exchange. My culture is supressed in their homeland that they still bow to.
They ARE monolithic. We were mistaken in ever making them welcome here. They despise the very values that make the West a decent, prosperous and free place to live. And now this POS has a TV show. See my tagline.
The dirty little secret about the billion muslims in the world.
They do not all have a free choice to accept Islam (their choice is convert or die).
Just as millions enslaved in the Soviet Union were not permitted an option to reject Communism.
Freedom of religion will return to the Middle East some day. Some day.
The lands claimed as “muslim lands” were not always muslims. It is foolish for them to believe they always will be.
When sexism, bigotry, and violence have majority approval in a culture, it is not an unreasonable assumption.
Rachel McAdams was not beaten or jailed for her refusal to strip down for the cover.
Some actresses have a strict “no nudity” policy in their contracts. And they may get less work (but better roles) as a result of this career decision.
There are plenty in the West who reject the rampant sexual consumerism. But where is the law drawn? Where do the beatings begin?
This is a key difference between the Judeo-Christian West and the Islamic East.
Even when Hollywood makes a profane parody of Christians, there are no assassinations, no riots in the streets.
Jesus Christ is humble. He came from humble beginnings, an outcast. We know His journey in life. Turn the other cheek to such taunts. Stand on principle and if you are martyred for your beliefs (tied to a stake and killed or thrown to the lions for “entertainment”) you would not be the first. Share His message. There is free will to accept or reject that message. God loves even those who deny He exists.
She is a propagandist and an apologist. What has she done to turn the tide in Islam so that muslims get over their sexism?
What public rebuke has she made to those in England with protest banners that say “behead all those who defame Islam”?
We are told we cannot be critical is Islam because to do so is to be “xenophobic”. So where are are the muslims who are critical of other muslims?
If she does not take a stand against the extreme element that she acknowledges exists but distances herself from, then she has thrown in the towel on ever seeing them change.
And as the extremists go, so go the “moderates” who are unwilling to do anything about the extremists.
“That is the basic problem with Muslims, the claim that their religin trumps the basic human right to life and liberty.”
But...they more than simply ‘claim’ it. They live it. They breathe it. In a recent posting on another site, a reformed Muslim fanatic (possible?) explained that, for adherents to Islam, complete uncompromising belief in the truth of the Quran is the bedrock principle of the faith. The Quran is the word of Allah, it is Allah in the only way that man can know him in this existence. As such, the religion is superior to ANYTHING dreamed, devised, designed, built, or otherwise perceived by any individual on this earth.
This belief is not a ‘problem’ for Muslims; it is the reason for Islam.
Islam is a cult, and must be eradicated.
I agree with you.
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