the "crime" of trusting islamic men
Dec. 1st, 2007 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eGo to Amnesty International's action list, scroll down to "The Girl from al-Qatif" and take the link to embarrass the Saudi government into at least trying to fix their medieval culture.
A 19-year-old woman, known only as "The Girl from al-Qatif," has been sentenced to 200 lashes and a 6-month prison term for being alone in private with a member of the opposite sex who was not an immediate family member. Call on the Saudi authorities to repeal this sentence of flogging.
Why is it that a girl has to cover herself from head to toe and heavily circumscribe her every action, living in constant fear of inflaming the desire of the men around her, while a woman can stroll down the main street of Brisbane wearing nothing but a skimpy bikini and expect to come to no harm? Either men in the West are paragons of virtue, or men in islamic society have become so deeply corrupted by their absolute power over women that it has turned them into vile creatures.
What men in islamic (and fundamentalist christian and hindu) society don't realise is that their control and power over women debases and corrupts them. Yes, the women lose out badly, being abused and dehumanised, but the men lose too; they become monsters and lose the chance to a great future accompanied by women as equals.
A 19-year-old woman, known only as "The Girl from al-Qatif," has been sentenced to 200 lashes and a 6-month prison term for being alone in private with a member of the opposite sex who was not an immediate family member. Call on the Saudi authorities to repeal this sentence of flogging.
Why is it that a girl has to cover herself from head to toe and heavily circumscribe her every action, living in constant fear of inflaming the desire of the men around her, while a woman can stroll down the main street of Brisbane wearing nothing but a skimpy bikini and expect to come to no harm? Either men in the West are paragons of virtue, or men in islamic society have become so deeply corrupted by their absolute power over women that it has turned them into vile creatures.
What men in islamic (and fundamentalist christian and hindu) society don't realise is that their control and power over women debases and corrupts them. Yes, the women lose out badly, being abused and dehumanised, but the men lose too; they become monsters and lose the chance to a great future accompanied by women as equals.
I sent my emails.
Date: 2007-12-02 03:50 am (UTC)(Of course it is much harder to hold the moral high ground when the Government of our close ally the United States thinks waterboarding and "extraordinary rendition" are somehow acceptable.)
Regards,
MFG.
Re: I sent my emails.
Date: 2007-12-02 07:34 am (UTC)We don't have to look far for revolting governments. Our own government changed the law to allow 'accidental' death of a person being tortured by our own police. That is, if someone you know is tortured to death by Australian police then the police are immune and there is nothing you can do about it. Why the hell is such a thing possible in a supposedly enlightened culture like Australia?
I have a theory on that. Even though hardly anybody dies, worldwide, due to terrorists, politicians are at the focus of terrorist threats. Having the power to use extraordinary measures to protect their worthless asses they trade away everybody else's freedoms in order to do so. Also the military and security forces make such obscene amounts of money from creating fear in politicians' minds. (World weapons budget is about $900,000,000,000,000... half of which is the US weapons budget.)
The US State Department overestimates (by their own admission) that about 600 people per year are killed from terrorism.
Cars kill 1,200,000.
AIDS kills more than 3,000,000.
Smoking kills about 5,000,000.
Starvation kills more than 16,000,000.
World poverty (and probably terrorism) could be eliminated by diverting the US arms budget for less than one hour each year. Now that is obscene.