Full Metal Burka
Kittens I have to admit something that I am beginning to think I have been truly wrong about, and it is so powerfully disturbing to me my ass hasn’t unclenched for a couple of days when it first began to dawn on me.
My dear sweet all powerful Kittens, Big Daddy is beginning to think that the French are onto something.
(Gasp!!!)
I know, I know. I didn’t exactly enjoy admitting it either. Frankly it feels bizarre and unclean and not only that it has got e thing that France might even not be a bad place to live.
(Double Gasp!!!!!!)
You read that correctly, Big Daddy isn’t fucking around. I am truly of the opinion that perhaps the rest of the world could learn a thing or two from the French, in particular the French government and definitely from President Nicolas Sarkozy.
(Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni. This alone is reason to believe that they have figured a few things out that we haven’t gotten around to yet.)
You see my Kittens it turns out the French aren’t just about letting dog shit pile up on their streets and leaving their nether regions untended like a junk yard flower bed. They tend to find other things to do when they aren’t busy going on strike, being impossible assholes to foreigners, playing accordions and allowing mimes to roam freely around the streets without fear of being captured and beaten.
(Not only are they the worlds laziest break dancers, Mimes eat you while you sleep)
When they aren’t busy getting suppositories stuffed into their asses and avoiding armed conflict at any costs, they seem to be more than their stereotypes.
(Okay, maybe not)
Some of them actually have some balls and aren’t afraid to show it.
(Zinedine Zidane, or Zizou)
This guy even knows how to properly warm up a World Cup match in true French fashion.
(This should be on the packaging of every pack of cigarettes all over the world)
Zidane and Sarkozy started to make me think after a while (this is because I am not American, so I know who both of these people are) and wondered what else is there to like about the French, besides their President and a football player?
(Not stereotypical at all ok?)
France is a secular society (this is a good thing Kittens) and therefor doesn’t allow any religious poison to interfere with the government and they take it very seriously. There are no references to any gods anywhere that has anything to do with the government and if a church or religious group tries to bother their way into any decision making Sarkozky tells them to suck on his baguette.
Lately he’s also come up with something that has balls (and therefor my respect and citizenship papers in the mail) that the west wouldn’t touch with a fifty foot barge pole. Nicholas Sarkozy wants to ban women from wearing burkas in public. Strait from the Associated Press;
“Burkas not welcome in France: Sarkozy
Mon Jun 22, 12:40 PM
VERSAILLES, France (AFP) – President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday that the burka was not welcome in secular France, condemning the head-to-toe cover as a symbol of subjugation rather than the Muslim faith.
“We cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind netting, cut off from all social life, deprived of identity,” he said. “That is not the idea that the French republic has of women’s dignity.”
“The burka is not a sign of religion, it is a sign of subservience,” he told lawmakers in a major policy speech. “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic.”
The speech came just two weeks after Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama diverged on whether states should legislate on religious clothing, an issue which has sparked controversy in Europe.
France, home to an estimated five million Muslims, passed a law in 2004 banning headscarves or any other “conspicuous” religious symbol in state schools in a hotly contested bid to defend secularism.
Last year a Moroccan woman was refused French citizenship after social services said she wore a burka and was living in “submission” to her husband.
Sarkozy told a special session of parliament he was in favour of holding an inquiry sought by some French lawmakers into whether Muslim women who cover themselves fully in public undermine French secularism and women’s rights.
But the president added “we must not fight the wrong battle, in the republic the Muslim religion must be respected as much as other religions.”
The inquiry proposal has won support from politicians on the left and right, but France’s official Muslim council accused lawmakers of wasting time on a fringe phenomenon.
“To raise the subject like this, via a parliamentary committee, is a way of stigmatising Islam and the Muslims of France,” Mohammed Moussaoui, head of the French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM), said last week.
There are no official figures but several thousand women are thought to wear the burka in France.
Obama this month defended the choice of some Muslim women to wear the Islamic headscarf.
It is “important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practising religion as they see fit for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear,” he said.
But Sarkozy told him when the two leaders met in France that his country took a different view.
“Civil servants must not wear any outward sign of their religion, whether they are Catholics, Jewish, Orthodox, Protestants or Muslims,” he said, adding that a woman could wear a headscarf provided it was her own decision.
Communist MP Andre Gerin is spearheading the drive for a parliamentary panel that would look at ways to restrict the burka, which he describes as a “prison” and “degrading” for women.
Immigration Minister Eric Besson has warned against reigniting a row on the issue of Islamic dress, saying “France has managed to strike a balance, and it would be dangerous to call that into question.”
This my Kittens deserves the very first Keep Your Coins, I Want Change SUPER BALLS AWARD.
(This is our lovely assistant Charo preparing the Super Balls Award for delivery to France)
For the record Kittens, the Super Balls Award wasn’t like the Iranian election, there was another challenger with an actual chance at victory.
(This really doesn’t warrant any comentary)
We all felt kinda bad that this guy didn’t win, so we chipped in some beer money and got him the runner up prize, the SUPER BALL AWARD.
(This is the closest he will ever come to touching a woman)
You see my Kittens I read about this earlier in the week and until today I didn’t really know what to make of it. I’ve always seen the burka as a prison like many people do and have always felt it subjugates women. I’m not a big fan of women or any person having their humanity ripped away from them by some bully in a position of self appointed authority, and especially when it comes to a religion, regardless of which one is doing the subjugating since they all have a similar track record for doing exactly that.
Sure it makes me sick to think of women being enslaved by being forced to wear a burka, but I always figured any government in the western wold would never have the big swinging balls to step in and protect women’s human rights. They are colossal pussies and a group of religious MEN who don’t want to upset another group of religious MEN. That was until Sarkozy stepped up with his big French “Go fuck yourself religion” balls and is starting to set things strait. He is also not the only one. The MUSLIM WOMAN who I think should be cloned immediately and have her replicants sent to governments all around the world is a woman named Saira Kahn, and she wrote something today that made my mouth drop.
(Saira Kahn, another new hero of mine)
Here’s what she had to say as a Muslim woman in response to Nicholas Sarkozy;
“Why I, as a British Muslim woman, want the burkha banned from our streets.
Shopping in Harrods last week, I came across a group of women wearing black burkhas, browsing the latest designs in the fashion department.
The irony of the situation was almost laughable. Here was a group of affluent women window shopping for designs that they would never once be able to wear in public.
Yet it’s a sight that’s becoming more and more commonplace. In hardline Muslim communities right
In the predominantly Muslim enclaves of Derby near my childhood home, you now see women hidden behind the full-length robe, their faces completely shielded from view. In London, I see an increasing number of young girls, aged four and five, being made to wear the hijab to school.
Shockingly, the Dickensian bone disease rickets has reemerged in the British Muslim community because women are not getting enough vital vitamin D from sunlight because they are being consigned to life under a shroud.
Thanks to fundamentalist Muslims and ‘hate’ preachers working in Britain, the veiling of women is suddenly all-pervasive and promoted as a basic religious right. We are led to believe that we must live with this in the name of ‘tolerance’.
‘The veil is a tool of oppression used to alienate and control women under the guise of religious freedom’
And yet, as a British Muslim woman, I abhor the practice and am calling on the Government to follow the lead of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and ban the burkha in our country.
The veil is simply a tool of oppression which is being used to alienate and control women under the guise of religious freedom.
My parents moved here from Kashmir in the 1960s. They brought with them their faith and their traditions – but they also understood that they were starting a new life in a country where Islam was not the main religion.
My mother has always worn traditional Kashmiri clothes – the salwar kameez, a long tunic worn over trousers, and the chador, which is like a pashmina worn around the neck or over the hair.
When she found work in England, she adapted her dress without making a fuss. She is still very much a traditional Muslim woman, but she swims in a normal swimming costume and jogs in a tracksuit.
I was born in this country, and my parents’ greatest desire for me was that I would integrate and take advantage of the British education system.
They wanted me to make friends at school, and be able to take part in PE lessons – not feel alienated and cut off from my peers. So at home, I wore the salwar kameez, while at school I wore a wore a typical English school uniform.
Now, to some fundamentalists, that made us not proper Muslims. Really?
I have read the Koran. Nowhere in the Koran does it state that a woman’s face and body must be covered in a layer of heavy black cloth. Instead, Muslim women should dress modestly, covering their arms and legs.
Many of my adult British Muslim friends cover their heads with a headscarf – and I have no problem with that.
The burkha is an entirely different matter. It is an imported Saudi Arabian tradition, and the growing number of women veiling their faces in Britain is a sign of creeping radicalisation, which is not just regressive, it is oppressive and downright dangerous.
The burkha is an extreme practice. It is never right for a woman to hide behind a veil and shut herself off from people in the community. But it is particularly wrong in Britain, where it is alien to the mainstream culture for someone to walk around wearing a mask.
‘Nowhere in the Koran does it state that a woman’s face and body must be covered in a layer of heavy black cloth’
The veil restricts women. It stops them achieving their full potential in all areas of their life, and it stops them communicating. It sends out a clear message: ‘I do not want to be part of your society.’
Every time the burkha is debated, Muslim fundamentalists bring out all these women who say: ‘It’s my choice to wear this.’
Perhaps so – but what pressures have been brought to bear on them? The reality, surely, is that a lot of women are not free to choose.
Girls as young as four are wearing the hijab to school: that is not a freely made choice. It stops them taking part in education and reaching their potential, and the idea that tiny children need to protect their modesty is abhorrent.
And behind the closed doors of some Muslim houses, countless young women are told to wear the hijab and the veil. These are the girls who are hidden away, they are not allowed to go to university or choose who they marry. In many cases, they are kept down by the threat of violence.
The burkha is the ultimate visual symbol of female oppression. It is the weapon of radical Muslim men who want to see Sharia law on Britain’s streets, and would love women to be hidden, unseen and unheard. It is totally out of place in a civilised country.
Precisely because it is impossible to distinguish between the woman who is choosing to wear a burkha and the girl who has been forced to cover herself and live behind a veil, I believe it should be banned.
President Sarkozy is absolutely right to say: ‘If you want to live here, live like us.’
He went on to say that the burkha is not a religious sign, ‘it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement… In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity.’
So what should we do in Britain? For decades, Muslim fundamentalists, using the human rights laws, have been allowed to get their own way.
It is time for ministers and ordinary British Muslims to say, ‘Enough is enough’. For the sake of women and children, the Government must ban the wearing of the hijab in school and the burkha in public places.
To do so is not racist, as extremists would have us believe. After all, when I go to Pakistan or Middle Eastern countries, I respect the way they live.
Two years ago, I wore a burkha for the first time for a television programme. It was the most horrid experience. It restricted the way I walked, what I saw, and how I interacted with the world.
It took away my personality. I felt alienated and like a freak. It was hot and uncomfortable, and I was unable to see behind me, exchange a smile with people, or shake hands.
If I had been forced to wear a veil, I would certainly not be free to write this article. Nor would I have run a marathon, become an aerobics teacher or set up a business.
We must unite against the radical Muslim men who love to control women.
My message to those Muslims who want to live in a Talibanised society, and turn their face against Britain, is this: ‘If you don’t like living here and don’t want to integrate, then what the hell are you doing here? Why don’t you just go and live in an Islamic country?’
I was only going to use a few portions of the article, but it is just too perfect and needed to be read in full, and besides if you are too lazy to read an entire article, why are you reading this blog anyways? Go look at some pictures of celebrities who forgot to cover their vagina’s.
You see Kittens I didn’t know what to make of Sarkozy and his wanting to ban burkas, only that I wanted to a part of it and immediately made plans for a hasty immigration. Europe is where they do the thinking and I’d prefer to be with my kind for a change.
Reading Saira Kahn this morning has given me an opinion. This is nothing more than government tolerated slavery and has nothing to do with freedom to worship whatever invisible man in the sky that suits you, but the west leaving Muslim women hanging out to dry because we are too soft and still a group of countries with religious ties and all too tolerant of societies chauvinism. If it isn’t happening to religious men, then tough shit, you’re fucked.
This is where we are at in the west Kittens. These are the kinds of things we not only tolerate, but don’t directly do something about and ban.
(Sure, this is religious freedom, for her arranged HUSBAND)
This is not religious freedom Kittens, this is the face (pun intended) of slavery. The west not only tolerates this kind of bullshit, it endorses it. This has nothing to do with any person saying they need to wear a funny hat a prayer time, or not wear a funny hat at prayer time or anyone trying to take away any ones right to do any praying to whoever they choose. This is about women being forced into bondage, and we let it happened every day.
In England there is a movement for Sharia law to be allowed for Muslims. Kittens, if it can happen there it will happen here.
How wold you feel about your Muslim neighbor being gang raped as punishment for not wearing a burka, or allowing a cable repair man into her home while her husband was at work?
If that sounds like fun, then I suggest you move to Saudi Arabia where those are the rules.
How would you feel if one day regardless of your religious or on-religious beliefs, your wife or daughter was forced to dress as a bee keeper whenever she left the house?
Maybe you think it would be just fucking dandy if a co-worker of yours suddenly showed up to work after a few days away sick because she was being whipped because somebody caught a glimpse of her ankle?
How does all of that sound?
There is a reason we have don’t do these things in our countries. It is because these laws are FUCKED UP.
There is an excellent quote by another thinker who is a hero of mine, Plato. “There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
The men that subjugate women by wearing burkas and those who allow it to happen clearly fall into the third category. Basic human rights are only for the men in control in Saudi Arabia where this atrocity began and I’m inclined to remind you Kittens of another philosopher that originated in that particular part of the world and the contributions his believes have had on the rest of the world.
(Spoiler alert, he may be at the Gay Pride festival this weekend)
One of the few things that we don’t tolerate here……yet is sharia law. Sorry folks who think it is just fine to whip your women but it just doesn’t fly with us folks here. If you think it is fine, then I suggest you stay put and keep to yourselves. Hopefully women around your part of the world can at lea watch television and gain some strength from what is happening in Iran right now, and the men in your society that read books that aren’t written by faceless dictator will follow suit and we can all take a giant leap ahead in evolution together.
The American President think it is just ine to allow men to continue women to be enslaved in his country. Nicholas Sarkozy disagrees and is working to ban it. He also thinks that war is bullshit and enjoys a pleasant day on the beach with his model wife.
I doubt the rest of the world has the balls to match Sarkozy so rather than beat my head against the walls of slavery I think I’ll just book myself passage and go hang out with the people that do the thinking, and that thinking also includes not tolerating intolerance. At least there they know at least one or two things we don’t, and one of them is how to think…..err……French.
(RAWR!)
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