Salaams All
My response to Jack Straws comments about the veil has been published in todays ( sat 21st oct ) Jang which is an urdu newspaper, their is an English section called The news where they published my letter. Of course it has been edited but none the less it presents an alternative Islamic view to the current hysteria.
Re: My response to Jack Straw published in todays Jang
congrats showkot:biggthumb
good work
Re: My response to Jack Straw published in todays Jang
Salaams and Eid mubarak brother
Jzk for the compliment, below is the letter i sent.
Why Jack Straw wants Muslim women to remove the veil
This is a very strange and funny request from an MP whose Blackburn constituency has 25% Muslims, and whose votes helped him to get elected and become foreign secretary. Also during his time in the cabinet he visited many Muslim countries and had the opportunity to see first hand how Muslims live especially our social system which is based on segregation of the sexes with certain exceptions.
During election time Mr Straw always visited local masjids and even spoke from the minbar urging Muslims to vote for him as opposed to voting for the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats. Many Muslim leaders like Ibrahim Master and Lord Patel campaigned for him vehemently. I’m absolutely certain that Mr Straw took his shoes of when he entered the masjid and did not ask the question “Why must I take my shoes off, because when I visit the church I keep them on”? And this is a sign of division among communities. Maybe he thought better to accept their backward ways, after all these idiots still vote for me regardless of how many Muslim countries we invade and how many Muslims we kill.
Many Muslims like the ones I have mentioned campaigned for him and spent many hours together with him and discussed about Islam and I’m sure he asked them many questions. Surely the question of Muslim women’s dress must have come up especially since the case of the French hijab ban and Shabina Begum excluded from a Luton school were prominent in the media?
The answer is very simple and even these brothers were able to explain to Mr Straw that the reason Muslim women wear the hijab is because it’s a commandment from Allah. Also if they choose to wear the niqab and even if they want to cover their eyes then Islamically they can and also living in a free democratic society one can dress as one wishes or wear as less as one wishes.
It’s quite hysterical that Muslim women’s veil bothers him but not the way some western women dress in summer which agitates the emotions of most men, the homosexuals being the exception of course. Maybe it’s because he approves and likes that style of clothing which reveals parts of the female anatomy. I wonder what the Victorians would have thought. Maybe they would have said “What are these prostitutes doing outside of the brothel. Nowadays to think such thoughts classifies one as being backward or Islamic fundamentalist woman repressor.
Its funny that for women to cover in public is considered to be backward and ignorant, but to ask them to reveal more and more of their flesh is considered to be modern and enlightened. An important point to consider is that women can only reveal so much flesh before they might as well be naked; this thought would be repulsive to Mr Straw but the question I would ask is why? Their not wearing the veil and dividing communities but rather liberating themselves and going back to what some would say “ nature”.
Muslims of course find western dress code disgusting, shameful and degenerate because we compare against the Islamic dress code which originated from Allah swt who knows better than humans, even a collection of the most intellectual humans gathered together in Parliament or the ones with the highest IQ’s from Mensa. No matter how clever they are with multiples PhD’s it was Allah who created them in the first place.
We as Muslims can see that in the west rape, sexual harassment, fornication, sexual diseases, illegitimate kids, abortion, all exist because of the social system not being defined correctly.
A discussion needs to take place on these issues:
Is their co-relation between men and women relationships which leads to the corruption I mentioned above? If the answer is yes then what are correct way men and women should interact with each other and who should define this system?
Does women’s dress contribute to rape, sexual harassment?
Does the way Muslim women dress lead to social problems?
And is the Islamic social system a way to eliminate these problems which are on the rise in the west?
I urge Mr Straw to think about the questions I have posed and engage in a dialogue with Muslims who do not massage his ego but rather speak the truth regardless of the consequences from the British state fearing the wrath of Allah more than any human being.
Re: My response to Jack Straw published in todays Jang
Jzk for the compliment, below is the letter i sent.
Why Jack Straw wants Muslim women to remove the veil
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**I would also ask this Moron Politician why is it that when White European Women go to the jungles of Africa and other tropical cultures, they do not go bare chested like the local ladies do???...:) **
Re: My response to Jack Straw published in todays Jang
My response to Jack Straws comments about the veil has been published in todays ( sat 21st oct ) Jang which is an urdu newspaper, their is an English section called The news where they published my letter. Of course it has been edited but none the less it presents an alternative Islamic view to the current hysteria.
please give page and section name so taht we can read on jang epaper...
Re: My response to Jack Straw published in todays Jang
Salaams Antumul alona
It was published in the English section called the news in the letters section. Jzk for all your kind words.
Re: My response to Jack Straw published in todays Jang
We as Muslims can see that in the west rape, sexual harassment, fornication, sexual diseases, illegitimate kids, abortion, all exist because of the social system not being defined correctly.
Although I agree with some of your points, showkat, some of your other points have raised concerns. I am deeply disturbed at your lack of insight into apparently obvious world problems. The social problems you listed above - do they not happen in muslim countries where women are dressed way less scandelously than in so-called 'western' countries?
Secondly, your comment on the right for a female to even veil her eyes reeks of extremism. No where does Islam condone covering up of the eyes. Even if one were to strictly follow the Hadith literature in regards to the veil, one would see the Prophet reportedly (note: reportedly) said to keep the hands and feet and eyes uncovered.
If we're going to write about these issues, lets at least get our facts straight.