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Practising To Deceive

Women are so devious, so unworthy, so unbelievably given to deception. It is their nature. They represent the worst of humankind, flaunting the richness of their temptations before helpless males, tempting men to behaviours unbecoming of normal social intercourse. Which is ample reason why they should be shrouded in public, so that neither facial features nor bodily contours can be construed by the naked male eye, lest he be bewitched, that helpless and hapless male.

This makes the case for the niqab, the veil, the burqa. And isn't that peculiar, that so many Muslim countries are geographically located in areas of the world that are hot, dry and miserable. Where women in public enshrined within a moveable tent can find no relief from the oppressiveness of the heat that surrounds them? Their movements impaired, their eyesight aggravated by the limits of the coverings they are expected to maintain, they presume normalcy.

In Somalia, women are experiencing new discomforts with the latent appearance of fundamentalist Islamists, al Shabaab. An Islamist conference of young males who, through convention and Islamic interpretation of sharia law, are practising to vent their frustrations upon women in the street in novel ways. Thus can an utter stranger approach a woman and demand she divest herself of the brassiere she is wearing.

It is worthwhile noting that in Western society women assume the wearing of a breast-holding undergarment for reasons of modesty. To restrain the breasts from moving freely and in so doing take the unwanted attention of passing males. In Somalia, where the enforcement of sharia is being undertaken, thanks to the fanatical al Shabaab, women must prove they are not wearing a brassiere by 'swinging' their breasts freely.

Should a woman refuse to remove her brassiere at the request or demand of a man - in public or in private as the case may be - she will be beaten. Women will be publicly whipped for their insolence in wearing brassieres, seen as violating Islam by, as it is said, constituting a deception. "Al Shabaab forced us to wear their type of veil and now they order us to shake our breasts", moaned a woman whose daughter had been whipped.

On the other hand, the type of 'moral cleansing' being undertaken by al Shabaab, a la Taliban, also encompasses the lives of men, who can be whipped in public for eschewing facial hair. And men who have engaged in robbery have had hands amputated. This is sharia justice. Movies, musical cellphone ringtones, dancing at wedding ceremonies, and playing or watching soccer - all forbidden.

Welcome to north Mogadishu and sharia law.

Labels: Human Relations, Human Rights, Religion

posted by Pieface @ Sunday, October 18, 2009