A prominent Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said "showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive"...
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The weaker the men, the more cloths women are required to wear.
If men have such a problem with women... shouldn't they be poking their own eyes out or something?
And heaven forbid women look seductive. Hey, moron, I don't wear the veil. Most of the time, I just wear comfortable clothes, like jeans and a shirt. Oh my gosh, that means that men can see my whole face! And guess what, I hardly ever use eyeliner! And what's so sinful about makeup, anyway?
Nothing will ever be good enough for you fundies. Why don't you just order women to stop breathing while you're at it? Breathing might cause her to sigh, and men might be aroused by that. Let's forbid women from ever panting, even if it's a hot day outside, because that might arouse men, too! Why don't you idiots work on yourselves before trying to control what other people do?
Is that an eyebrow?
You little harlot!
This has very little to do with purity or impurity and a hell of a lot to do with shaming and controlling women for being stupid enough to be born with a cunt. When women are diminished to the point of ridiculousness, the immense insecurities of men pale in comparison.
And those women think women in the western world are being mistreated, because men use us for sex, or something.
"Hey, Fatima, that was great. I'll be back next week."
"I'll keep an eye out for you, Joe."
A prominent Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one boobie.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said "showing both boobies encouraged women to to do boobie-dances to look seductive"...
Oscar Wilde once said that the only way to resist temptation is to give in to it.
Apparently, Mohammad believed that the only way to resist temptation was to cut its head off.
I had an even better idea. The problem in these Muslim countries appears to lie with the men, not the women. So let's put the burkas on the men, and let's make them total full-body, no eye showing burkas. And let the women dress normally, and lead the men around, or leave them at home if they choose. I think, no, I KNOW, that will solve all the problems.
Oh, and I think Sheikh Muhammad would look just darling in a little lace teddy and some eyeliner under that burka.
or better still, no eyes, then they don't have to look at all the horrible beards, worn by men who go out of their way to look as unseductive as possible.
What's with Middle Eastern men? They apparently can't control their lust for women, so they blame the women for "seducing" them. Then they lock them away because they're scared shitless some other guy is going to steal them. Christ, I wish they'd grow some balls.
These prominent Muslims clerics should stop being idiots.
And while we're at it, let's just give them goggles or, better yet, telepresence robots so they can hide in a sound-proof, sealed jail cell while the robots do their bidding. We'll feed them through tubes and have a little hamster wheel to keep them from atrophying.
For these people, it's not about having rules, it's about making them. When you run out of sensible ones you just keep on going, or you lose your sense of power and importance. For all that they denounce the world as evil, cult leaders couldn't live in a good world - they need the world to be evil so they can keep on denouncing it in front of large congregations; if, by some miracle, you actually bring it up to their ridiculous specifications for "good", such as the insane female dress code here, they'll just raise the bar again.
If everyone actually made the transition to one-eyed veils, this guy would be calling for no-eyed veils within a month. I'm not sure what he'd do after that, but you can count on it being just as ridiculous.
I don't normally hate people, but I really hate Mohammed right now. His entire tribal culture was based around honor, so now all Middle Eastern women have to suffer because all Middle Eastern men apparently are taught that they have no self-control otherwise.
FDragon: I would amend that to "Apparently, all Middle-Eastern born-and-raised men." I went to co-ed public school and college and only once had a man try to force something out of me. (Of course, I'm not generally a "Frat Party! kind of person, either.) And I already thought he was kind of creepy. (Fortunately, nothing happened. I told him to back off, and he did.)
Brain_In_A_Jar: Excellent point about the cult leaders. If everyone could morally guide themselves, where would they get their power from?
And I'm sure the next step would be: The Newest Middle-Eastern fashion trend for women, Bags over their heads! With a feeding back so they can eat! Order yours now!
Seriously, why even the one eye? With the treatment of women in this culture why do they care if women can see.
Religion makes people do the must fucked up things.
Just had a fun mental image of Turanga Leela kicking this guy's ass.
(P.S.: Would it be too much of a groaner to say I pictured it in my mind's eye?)
(Yep, an eye pun would be corny, uh.)
I once heard of a muslim woman who came to my country, Finland, to see students from my high school and talk about her culture. She actually said that she pities finnish women, as they can "never be truly women."
If this is the case, I don't mind the treating of women in Islamic countries. If they are really willing to succumb to the god-awful rules, I can't complain.
How about you either grow up, Sheikh, or the chicks start wearing sunglasses instead. How about that?
Unless I'm mistaken, the prohibition on dress was that women, and men, dressed "modestly" and the hijab was more of a local/custom sort of deal. I mean, what the fuck do you think that think on the Virgin Mary's head is in the statues Roman Catholics grew up with (least, I did)?
I don't belive this for one second. It comes from the BBC which is part of the neocon controlled main-stream media.
Um, what? Is it opposite day? Sure they're not perfect, but isn't the BBC famously independent of the state? Are you sure you aren't just working backwards from the conclusion you wanted to get?
I don't belive this for one second. It comes from the BBC which is part of the neocon controlled main-stream media. All the MSM wants to do is demonize Muslim and Islam.
Muslims and Islam are doing a fine job of "demonizing" themselves.
"A prominent Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye."
Hey, as long as that's all she's wearing, I got no problem.
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