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ISLAMIC OBFUSCATION
Recently at a Non-Political Luncheon, I was handed a photo-stat of an article written by Bruce Bawer which appeared in a magazine called "Partisan Review". It dealt with the almost complete ignorance of normal Islamic practices and attitudes by people of the "West".
Many western people of good-will continue to believe that all cultures are equal and adopt attitudes based on biased politically correct ( but false ) ideas of "fairness" etc in respect of immigrants from other parts of the world.
I believe that these attitudes are wrong because they are based on ignorance and/or misunderstanding the difference between Islamic standards of conduct and our own based on a rule of law in which Christian/ Judaeic principals dominate.
Many Islamic practices are in direct opposition to our own such a forced marriages, and there are many others. but you will not hear or read about these from S.B.S. the A.B.C., the B.B.C. or any of the newspapers in Australia ( and it seems most mainstream newspapers in the other Western Countries either!). Read the following and judge for yourself.
D.H-J
The Partisan Review
Islamic Obfuscation and Deception
by ;Bruce Bawer
Among Muslims in Europe,it's quite common for young people to be compelled by their parents to accept spouses they don't want. Some women manage to escape these situations and seek protection in women's shelters. In I999 the Guardian published an article by Faisal Bodi, a British Muslim who complained about these shelters, which in Great Britain are called "women's refuges."
Charged Bodi, "Refuges tear apart our families.
Once a girl has walked in through their door, they do their best to stop her ever returning home.That is at odds with the Islamic impulse to maintain the integrity of the family."
(Bodi made certain to note--as if it definitively established the loathsome character of women's shelters ) --
"the preponderance of homosexuality among members and staff."
Citing universal Muslim belief in "the shariah, the body of laws defining our faith" which he described, a bit unsettlingly, as
"a sharp sword capable of cutting through the generational and cultural divide"
--Bodi argued that British authorities must recognize the Muslim community-
"as an organic whole"
and thus accord it a larger role in resolving conflicts over forced marriage.
Bodi's plaint was phrased with extreme delicacy, but the point was clear: when Muslim girls or women flee the tyranny of father or husband, the government should essentially hand them over to a group of Muslim men. In short, British law should effectively be subordinate to Muslim law. Group identity trumps individual
rights.
The article tamely characterized the difference between Western-style consensual matrimony and forced Muslim marriages as a ;-
"collision between the individual-oriented West
and the family-oriented East."
The reporter went on to express admiration for the "family-oriented" approach and even cited the low Muslim divorce rate to support the contention that the Muslim way was better-- ignoring entirely the fact that wives who are forced to marry are hardly in a position to decide to divorce.
Then, in September 2002 (only five days, in fact, before the destruction of the World Trade Center), the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet quoted a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo who was described as having "lived for many years in Muslim countries") as saying that;-
"Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative."
One reason for the high number of rapes by Muslims, explained the professor, was that in their native countries ;-
"rape is scarcely punished," since Muslims "believe that it is women who are responsible for rape."
The professor's conclusion was not that Muslim men living in the West needed to adjust to Western morms but the exact opposite.
" Norwegian women must realise that we live in a Multi-cultural society and adapt themselves to it"
( It is in such ways that freedoms begin to erode.)
VOICES FROM INSIDE THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN NORWAY
Two people who plainly understood this were Shabana Rehman, a woman who grew up in Oslo's Muslin community, and Hege Storhaug.
In a courageous article that appeared in the Norwegian newspaper "VG" in April zooo, Rehman and Storbaug accused Norways Muslim leaders of presenting the general public with a misleading picture of what was going on inside their community-- a picture that Norwegian authorities gladly accepted, the article charged, even though they knew better.
Noting "the lack of freedom and the violence that reigns in a large part of the Muslim immigrant community," Rehman and Storhaug asserted that many Muslims in Norway were engaged in "a life and death struggle to secure fundamental human rights." Pointing out that Muslim community leaders routinely ;-
"deny that Muslim women in Norway
are lacking in freedom - that they are the victims of virulence,"
the article argued that;-
"it is impossible for Norwegian Authorities to clean up these problems as long as the immigrants' representativcs continue to veil the truth."
Rebman and Storhaug went to say ;-
"The Norwegian public has let itself be fooled by the Muslim
community's dissenters ever since the beginging of the integration debate. In one voice, they have delivered an unambiguous message:that the problem for todays immigrants both young and old is the discrimination and racism in Norwegian Society. This is a lie - a distorted picture that conceals the real obstruction to integration."
they continued....:-
"That obstruction is found within the immigrant community itself: in its lack of respect for human rights and its prevailing notions of honour and shame"
Is there any doubt whatever that a similar story could be revealed in all the Western countries including Australia?
Legal or Illegal immigrants from Muslim countries simply will not accept the rule of law which applies to the rest of us,because they place "shariah law" above western law.They will refuse to do so and compromise their religious beliefs.
They know that in time they will have proliferated and will outnumber us while we "unbelievers" will be so reduced in numbers ( abortion and family planning leading to a low birth rate) that we will be unable to stop changes (to the constitution that govern western countries) that favour Muslim/Islamic communities.
You have been warned!.
D.H-J.
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