Schoolgirls in Hamas-controlled Gaza must wear Islamic attire or face expulsion

Sharia Alert: "The few who came to school wearing jeans were warned that they would be expelled if they did not wear jilbabs."

"The jilbab or expulsion," by Khaled Abu Toameh for the Jerusalem Post, August 24:

Hamas has instructed schoolgirls in the Gaza Strip to wear the jilbab (Islamic long-sleeved dress) and head scarves or face being expelled from school.
The movement has also banned girls from wearing jeans at school.
The latest order follows a similar directive that was issued earlier this month by a local judge requiring all female lawyers who appear in the Gaza Strip's courts to wear the hijab (Islamic head scarf).
The cases are seen in the context of Hamas's efforts to enforce strict Islamic laws throughout the Strip.
Until a few years ago, many Gazan schools endorsed jeans or trousers as an official uniform for girls. But since Hamas seized full control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, schools have come under intense pressure to force girls to dress in accordance with Islamic rules.
A source in the Hamas-controlled Education Ministry said that his ministry's policy was to allow each school administration to decide on the type of clothes students should wear.
According to the source, the ministry decided this year to exempt all students from wearing school uniforms due to the financial crisis in the Gaza Strip.
"Headmasters and headmistresses have been given a green light to decide on what type of clothes the students should wear," the source said. "In many schools, the administrations, in coordination with the families, decided to impose hijabs and jilbabs on girls."
A veteran journalist in the Gaza Strip said that most girls who returned to schools that reopened on Sunday were seen dressed in traditional Islamic clothes.
He noted, for instance, that at the Maghazi Girls Secondary School in the center of the Gaza Strip, "about 95 percent" of the girls showed up wearing jilbabs.
"The few who came to school wearing jeans were warned that they would be expelled if they did not wear jilbabs," the journalist told The Jerusalem Post....
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Ah, yes, the tolerance of Islam strikes again.

I think it's great. This is what they voted for and it does not conflict with their society.

Not appropriate for western society. But okay for Gaza.

Islam....the religion dedicated to making life on the planet intolerable...

Well, seen by Taliban standards, Hamas is down right radical, I mean what with letting girls go to school and such, irrespective of the issue of proper attire. C'mon, can't have young females learning to read and all that (but I do wonder what those many "moderate" Taliban think of this-----Hmmm, have to write the White House about this one).

Or might it be OK if girls go to school and cover 95% of their too desirable bodies for young Muslim males, who can't really help themselves after all and, what the hell, why should they? I mean, ain't it obvious, it's females who are at fault for being desirable in the first place, right? And, while we're at it, we just don't have enough circumcisers out there of the female pudendum, now do we?

The larger point here is obvious: Muslims will go after each other, including in a deadly way, if they're not going after kuffaars. The sickness which is Islam has no end to it. That's why it must be ended just as other totalitarian systems had to be.

Another article showing how badly Muslims are victims of Islam, in one way or another.

This is what they wanted. Then let them suffer. I really don't care what the cockroaches do in Gaza, as long it is in Gaza to the people there.

This is what they wanted. Then let them suffer. I really don't care what the cockroaches do in Gaza, as long it is in Gaza to the people there.

Wellington:

It is pretty amazing that the Islamists accuse Westerners of being sexually obsessed. I would say that a society that has men who find young girls and women in their 80's a sexual temptation have nothing on the West.

Such is the account commonly given of our approbation of the punishment of injustice. And so far this account is undoubtedly true, that we frequently have occasion to confirm our natural sense of the propriety and fitness of punishment, by reflecting how necessary it is for preserving the order of society. When the guilty is about to suffer that just retaliation, which the natural indignation of mankind tells them is due to his crimes; when the insolence of his injustice is broken and humbled by the terror of his approaching punishment; when he ceases to be an object of fear, with the generous and humane he begins to be an object of pity. The thought of what he is about to suffer extinguishes their resentment for the sufferings of others to which he has given occasion. They are disposed to pardon and forgive him, and to save him from that punishment, which in all their cool hours they had considered as the retribution due to such crimes. Here, therefore, they have occasion to call to their assistance the consideration of the general interest of society. They counterbalance the impulse of this weak and partial humanity by the dictates of a humanity that is more generous and comprehensive. They reflect that mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent, and oppose to the emotions of compassion which they feel for a particular person, a more enlarged compassion which they feel for mankind. --Adam Smith (The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759)

control, control, control!

Wellington:
"Well, seen by Taliban standards, Hamas is down right radical, I mean what with letting girls go to school and such..."

Wellington raises an intersting point. Why do some muslims let the girls go to school at all? The reason probably has nothing to do with liberalism. Rather I suspect, there is a fatwa that girls may go to school so long as they are being educated in jihad. The learned opinion holds that so long as girls are being taught the jihad religious obligatory practice to murder Jews, Israelis and other infidels it is okay for them to be in school for this reason and this reason alone. This fatwa allowing education for jihad is consistent with the jihad idea that establishes in islam even a girl does not need permission from her father to go murder infidels.

Warned today...,expelled tomorrow, beaten, tortured and raped the day after that...Jeans and a warning unheeded, is sufficient reason for an 'honor killing'...

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