Why are women covered? Because they are sex objects. Because when men see them, they are roused. Why should women have to be penalised for men’s sexual problems? Even women have sexual urges. But men are not covered for that. In no religion formulated by men are women considered to have a separate existence, or as human beings having desires and opinions separate from men’s. The purdah rules humiliate not only women but men too. If women walk about without purdah, it’s as if men will look at them with lustful eyes, or pounce on them, or rape them. Do they lose all their senses when they see any woman without burqa?[link]
Taslima Nasrin asks for the Burqa to be burned. I couldn’t agree more. Forcing women to wear a Burqa, ghoonghat and other such assorted items in the name of protecting them from lustful men is ridiculous and insulting. And as Nasrin asks, why in that case men don’t cover themselves so they can avoid seeing such tempting bodies.
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She is cruising for a bruising or else royalties from her last book just ran out.
It is painful to read these weird analyses. Looks like these people never heard of concepts like freedom, choice etc. All arguments are about the book again.
R
Have not we mulled over this thin veil ad infinitum ad nauseam ….one of the post garnered some 120 comments, while the other “disturbed” a pair of hearts repeatedly…
sex is always on the mind of men has one glaring fact, women have been living with since the prehistoric times when the *caveman club a woman over the head, and drag her by her hair to his cave …
n have not we discussed at length over lemonade (for the lady) and whisky – scotch (for the gentleman) that Australian Muslim cleric named Al-Hilali’s controversial comment “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside … and the cats come to eat it … whose fault is it, the cats’ or the uncovered meat’s?”
quite an offensive, insightfully inciting statement against fraternity..tch tch, men are compared to cats.ahem, women become wild cats then!
this wild cat Taslima has gone bonkers..now men flaunt the veil as a excuse to bump n gyrate against slender bodies,i.e. Eves~~~J
Well, I have a friend, who at one point in her life, seriously considered the burqa. No one was forcing her. I think she should have that choice.
Women being forced is the issue. Of course you could argue that it is instilled in them since birth and they are not really making a “choice”.
Tough topic.
BarbarIndian – “She is cruising for a bruising”?? How exciting that expressing a point of view will get her a bruising! Probably factually correct since the nut jobs will emerge yelling and scraming, but very depressing.
That is some strong language. Her angst is too palpable. One can never know what they go though in that burqa unless of course one is one among them.
…I admire Taslima Nasrin for being audacious a feminist and through her poetry & thoughts, she has been a key factor influencing metamorphosis, striking at the very foundation of a Muslim family, the patriarchal societal institutions and raising voice against male domination.
…You’re a girl
and you’d better not forget
that when you cross the threshold of your house
men will look askance at you.
When you keep on walking down the lane
men will follow you and whistle.
When you cross the lane and step onto the main road
men will revile you, call you a loose woman…..
…A pack of dogs is after you.
Remember, rabies.
A pack of men is after you.
Remember, syphilis.
interestingly, she never viewed the female body as a “biological entity”, but worked on the socio-cultural meaning of the female body, i.e. Muslim women to claim the right to their bodies as part of the liberation movement. This compelling view of hers does contradict what she said over here now? women being sexual objects!
instead, I expect her to deviate her energies on “freedom through resolve”…..a more logical extension to her voice…as MR MOJO RISIN said,
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are….
Dunno how many times I have commented on this.. so I will skip for now.. will comment on this later.
But in this new template of yours, this textfield, the one in which I am typing right now, does not show the cursor while typing. Very irritating indeed.
You might want to change the background colour of this textfield, from grey to white.
Barb,
You are being unfair to her. She says that even if Quran mentions Burqa, women should just ignore it.
Jyo,
Why has Nasrin gone bonkers?
Shripriya,
I agree. Of course, women should have the choice. And no one should ban it. But I still hope, women just give it up.
Shadows,
I am back to my regular template.
I dont care… its their life.. their choice. If they want the veil, have it, if they dont, leave it. Ultimately, its *their* mullahs telling them to wear veils, and its *they* who choose to do so. If they go around blowing up people because koran tells them to, its their choice. But they have no right to blow people of the rest of the world.
The point is – they have absolutely no right to tell us, the rest of the world, to wear the burqas or not. Also, they have no right to force their dogmatic beliefs on the free world (like in Britain and France, where laws are being bent, or rather, being forced on them)
They should keep their strange beliefs to themselves in “Islamic republics” (has anyone ever noted the oxymoron).
[...] 18th, 2007 · No Comments Taslima Nasrin’s article on Burqa, which we had linked to, has got the Mullahs frothing at the mouth. Taslima should be thrown out of the country,” [...]