Objections to the burqa and riots in India
What words does this picture paint? Opression, suffering, inprisonment, disregard, lonliness, chains.
One bangladeshi woman wrote about the oppression of Moslem women and her printed words resulted in violent riots in India, in which 2 were killed, propety was burned and destryed, many were injured. Read more here. Here in America we cannot allow the fear of this kind of thing happening here stop us from speaking out about the evils of Islam!
Here are some exceprts from Taslima Nasrin's "Let's Think Again about the Burqa"
"My mother used purdah. She wore a burqa with a net cover in front of the face. It reminded me of the meatsafes in my grandmother's house. One had a net door made of cloth, the other of metal. But the objective was the same: keeping the meat safe."
"Some 1,500 years ago, it was decided for an individual's personal reasons that women should have purdah and since then millions of Muslim women all over the world have had to suffer it,"
"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?"
I like her conclusion:
"What should women do? They should protest against this discrimination. They should proclaim a war against the wrongs and ill-treatment meted out to them for hundreds of years. They should snatch from the men their freedom and their rights. They should throw away this apparel of discrimination and burn their burqas."
This is our heart here, too, that Moslem women can find the courage to throw off the bonds of Islam, not just the burqas but all the demonic chains, and come to the light and freedom of Jesus Christ.
Jesus said of himself, and I have found it to be true for my life:
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." Luke 4:18,19
