Sharia Alert from modern, moderate Malaysia. "UCAN: 'Muslim attire' irritates non-Muslim schoolgirls," from UCA News (thanks to Designnut):
PADANG, Indonesia (UCAN) – Stefanus Prayoga Ismu Rahardi felt bad seeing his daughters' discomfort at having to wear the Muslim head covering that conceals a girl or woman's ears, neck and hair, as part of their school attire."The first time I saw them in jilbab, I could sense they were uncomfortable," the father of three daughters told UCA News Aug. 25. "They did not know how to wear jilbab and got angry," he recalled. "They were irritated."
Agustina, his eldest daughter, is studying at a public junior high school. His second daughter, Yashinta, is studying at a public vocational school. Both schools are in Padang, capital of West Sumatra province, 880 kilometers (about 545 miles) northwest of Jakarta.
The 44-year-old Catholic recalled that in July, during the first days of the school year, teachers often asked his daughters why they did not wear the head covering to school. "I suggested they wear jilbab," he continued, so they would not have to answer the same question over and over again. But he also advised them to regard it as only "an accessory."
"They were in a difficult situation. They had no choice," explained Rahardi, a member of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Padangbaru.
The long dress and long-sleeved shirts characteristic of Muslim attire are more decent than the short dresses and short-sleeved shirts generally worn by students in other regions, he admitted. "But personally, I do mind if non-Muslim schoolgirls have to wear jilbab, because it is identified with Islam."
Since 2002, almost all 19 districts and towns in the province have put into effect local bylaws (Perda, Indonesian acronym) or decrees by mayors and district heads that stipulate mandatory attire for Muslims.
Solok district, for example, issued Perda No. 6/2002. Meanwhile, Limapuluh Kota, Sawahlunto Sijunjung and Agam districts have Perda No. 58/2003, Perda No.2/2003 and Perda No. 6/2005, respectively.
Mayor Fauzi Bahar of Padang issued an instruction obliging all Muslim students from the elementary to senior-high levels to wear Muslim attire.
Bonifasius Bakti Siregar, a staff member of West Sumatra's directorate general for Catholic Community Guidance, says such requirements have strong psychological affects on non-Muslim schoolgirls, who will look different from most of their classmates if they do not wear Muslim attire.
Non-Muslim girls studying at public schools find themselves in a difficult situation, he told UCA News. "They wish they could attend Catholic or Protestant-run schools where they are not obliged to wear jilbab, but these schools do not exist in the rural areas or towns."
Non muslim Indonesians have to follow Sharia law in more areas in Indonesia nowadays.
More persecution to non Muslims have become more rampant.
Just this past Sunday another church was attacked by a Muslim mob during Sunday service, where some of the Christians were seriously injured. (sorry, it's in Indonesian).
http://www.suarapembaruan.com/News/2007/09/03/Jabotabe/jab01.htm
Attacks like this have been so numerous, there have been too many to count. What is the Indonesian government doing about this? Nothing, nada, zilch!!!!!
But well, what do you expect from a 'secular' government if the head of the People Consultative Assembly used to be the head in the PKS, a party that has Shariah law as its goal and where a lot of people in the government don't think that the terrorist Bashir is not a terrorist?
As long as our government does not honestly report what is going on in Indonesia, what is the point in issuing a State Department's country report every year if it's only glossing over the so called 'improvements'?????
Seeing muslims dressed in their Nazi/ klan sheets makes me uncomfortable wearing them would be a humiliation I cant convince of. At least not under threat of death which is the reality.
Well then by golly Give me Death,
as the saying goes, because I would rather die than live a life of forced subjugation to a belief that I don't and cannot accept.
Its not just the matter of 'sheets' its the whole spectrum of the worst Blatant abuse of women behind the whole 'sheet' ideology. As far as I'm concerned, the second,
you throw on the sheet--you give your rights away including your right to say NO to unwanted sex,
unwanted slavery,
unwanted sale of little girls to pedophiles
unwanted domestic servitude
unwanted loss of children as Sharia fathers get automatic custody
unwanted protection from abandonment and distitution
unwanted forced prostitution
and unwanted HIV, FGM, TORTURE, BEATINGS, AND RISK OF DEATH WITH
EVERY BREATH A WOMAN TAKES.
TRUTH--the second one dons on a sheet, one signs their
death warrant.
TRUTH--there were many courageous women in Iran who did revolt and refused to wear the sheet or if they wore the sheet the resisted in various other ways, many of them torched themselves in the streets as a sign of Protest,
when Humanity makes a decision, to not bow down in FEAR to these
JERKS
then Humanity can and will see a light at the end of the tunnel,
freedom from Darkness
the Darkness of Islam.
Tasha
In addition,
That kind of life,
is
DEATH. a slow agonizing hell of a death, so you're dead anyway living under Sharia and Islam.
Tasha
Greetings:
Is this about Malaysia (headline) or Indonesia?
When I was growing up Catholic, wearing things like the "jilbab"
which were part and practice of other religions, was considered an improper "act of faith" and to be avoided.
Where I grew u, though, it was mostly yarmulkes and those people don't do beheadings.
Tasha,
I'm with you, girl.
Give me a quick & honorable death over subjugation any day. Any death as Kafir is honorable, no matter the method.
If Sharia comes to our shores, I will fight it tooth & nail. If it comes to my impending death, I'm dipping my bullets in pig's blood.
"PADANG, Indonesia (UCAN) – Stefanus Prayoga Ismu Rahardi felt bad seeing his daughters' discomfort at having to wear the Muslim head covering that conceals a girl or woman's ears, neck and hair, as part of their school attire."
...imagine their discomfort at being raped or brutally tortured and killed if the refuse to wear this ugly drab trash....
The discomfort many Westerners -- especially women -- experience upon seeing women in Islamic clothing is based upon the recognition that this attire is more than a purely personal, devotional practice.
Hijab, jilbab, abayah, burkah, all of it are based upon the Islamic paradigm of woman as "awrah," sexual temptation that must be controlled, masked and hidden from the gaze of all except an authorized male possessor. The wearing of such attire, especially in Western countries, is a signal to other Muslims and a threat to infidels that this paradigm is now active in the community. Evidence from around the world shows clearly that women, Muslims and non-Muslims both, will suffer violent consequences should they not comply.
Female Muslim clothing in supposedly secular societies is, simply put, an act of supremacist aggression. "They were in a difficult situation. They had no choice." How concise.
Guys, I'm sorry if this doesn't work - but there's a video on youtube and I hope this works, because we women should see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVzvWDLugRE
Here's an American man grilling a woman about not wearing a hijab, and he asserts that "if you see jewelry uncovered, you'll take it, touch it, try it on and NOT NEED TO ASK PERMISSION" and "the jewelry in the case is more valuable than the stuff on the counter." He called the "uncovered jewelry" junk jewelry.
I don't like this one bit...
Goldie--I agree. The interviewer looked muslim (beard). If the woman he spoke with liked the hijab so much, why was she wearing western garb?
I don't agree that something covered up is necessarily more valuable--more controlled, perhaps. The issue is choice.
I grew up around nuns wearing the full habit. My children attend private schools where the religious still wear habits with veils. This was a choice made by these women as an outward sign of their vows to Christ's Church, i.e., they're off the market and will never be misken for anything else.
And these nuns are not doormats, believe me.
CapitalistGig - you're right on both counts. He is Muslim, and I think he was born here. To hear someone say stuff like "you need to ask permission to touch jewelry in the case but not on the counter" is just incredible but coming from someone who grew up here is really alarming. And no, nuns ain't doormats!
Marwan's Daughter, you express it much more eloquently than I: it's the implication that we're fair game if we don't wear a hijab. If that didn't exist, trust me, I wouldn't care what anyone felt like wearing.
GoldieLox: The implication you mentioned in the male Muslim's berating of the young woman is even more disturbing than "fair game," if you think about it.
Asking permission? Whose, exactly?
Do you see now? That in the Islamic worldview -- a mindset that even infects born-and-raised Americans -- women are essentially objects. The "permission" at issue is not hers to give. It is the "permission" of her male possessor. Women without hijab are signaling to male Muslims that they have no possessor whose rights over his property must be respected.
The simple connection between Muslimah clothing, this worldview, and its consequences to those who do not comply seems pretty clear to me.
Why did Allah create something as beautiful as a woman's hair only to insist it be covered up?
Wouldn't baldness have made more sense?
But, then, Allah makes no sense.
Mr. Spencer:
The country involved is Indonesia, not Malaysia. Please pay more attention. ~~
(Really, careless mistakes like this detract from the quality of your work and provide ammunition for the likes of "Rev." Sutter)
"Just this past Sunday another church was attacked by a Muslim mob "
....this could be the activity you see in your neighborhood if you keep giving in to Muslim demands...demands for footbaths, demands for prayer time, demands for prayer mats, demands for your children to learn the Qur'an, demands for special priviledges to Muslims, demands for exceptions to your laws, demands for more Muslim control of anything and everything...
...these are not people you want in your neighborhood....Ban Muslim Immigration...
Ah, but its so simple you see,
the whole 'we must protect women from being touched [yech yech] argument,
I have a suggestion that I think could solve the poor, poor Muslim male dilemna in regards to their oh so weak temptations,
adorn women with SWORDS, may they be our Chadors in the West--little swords, big swords,
give every girl training in martial arts and sword and ninja training, like they do in China, better yet, how about, like that thing in South Africa, its a condom for women with teeth, that a woman wears that if a man tries to rape her, well he sort of gets a nasty bite, etc, well we could make little devices that a woman could pull out and that would work like a switchblade, fits like a tampon,
LOL and we could call it the Freedom Piece, LOL, [I know I'm terrible but actually I'm being serious] and inscribed in our little 'Freedom Piece' it could say,
"Excuse me mr Muslim, WE, WOMEN OF THE FREE WORLD,
OWN
OURSELVES.
And, ah, some Lorenna Bobbit courses, to aid those poor weak Muslim men who feel they must control and subjugate women because oh they just are sooooo weak--
Pssst--and These are the guys that the idiots who are cultural relativists want to trust with NUKES?
ROFLMAO
and Miss Anthrope I hear you, with you all the way too sister, I think, even among some of the more 'relativist' ones here in the West, if push came to shove, the Islamists would find, that women here aren't so easy to push around, they Forget, just how many women here
ARE ARMED, DANGEROUS, KNOW HOW TO SHOOT, AND
KNOW HOW TO KILL.
;)