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	<title>Comments on: Review of London lecture on French hijab politics</title>
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		<title>By: George Carty</title>
		<link>http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/01/25/review_of_london_lecture_on_french_hijab_politics#comment-22655</link>
		<dc:creator>George Carty</dc:creator>
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		<description>Another thing - I don&#039;t get the significance of the comparison with British racists of the past whingeing about black immigrants &quot;taking their women&quot;.

There is no similar sexual competition between Muslim women and non-Muslim women, because there is no halal way for a Muslim woman to have sex with a non-Muslim man...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another thing - I don&#8217;t get the significance of the comparison with British racists of the past whingeing about black immigrants &#8220;taking their women&#8221;.</p>

<p>There is no similar sexual competition between Muslim women and non-Muslim women, because there is no halal way for a Muslim woman to have sex with a non-Muslim man&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Brown</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Education and knowledge is attained through debates and forums like this held in london.People were not created to be one,were not created all of them under one race group,there are whites,blacks,yellows and browns,the thinking and perception of one&#039;s mind is different from the other,even identical twins do not perceive the same.People are free to choose what they want,behave,follow and not forced by a group of people or an individual who pretends to be a speaker of others.No one is above the others to put and commands his orders to be followed by others,once this attain,signifies the respect and tolerance all of us need to have,otherwise hatred,fightings,terrorism will never and ever end,since the same perception and wishes to all human beings has never and will never occur,this is normality,physiological of what the brain is made,even fingerprints of twins are not the same and never will.Muslims should respect others,the same should be done by others to muslims,without doing so never of the peace will be attain because one could even dies to protects what he believes and non will change,this is principal of humanity.People should not been driven emmotionally because we can not reach somewhere good.Lets every indivial remains to his/her stance,our interactions will be based by some characteristics we do share,example we are all human beings,we can participate in many issues regardless of our differences.No one could claim her traditional to be the best than others,it is the best to her,so lets propagate respect,love and understanding of each other,thus why we were not created to be similar in everything!!.If the world was similar there will be no beauty we see on its diversity.We are one world,one sisters and brothers................LETS HAVE A REALLY  RESPECT TO EACH OTHER!!!!!.Thanks,I am a black african dude,24 yrs old,Tanzanian,medical student....akyala@live.com.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Education and knowledge is attained through debates and forums like this held in london.People were not created to be one,were not created all of them under one race group,there are whites,blacks,yellows and browns,the thinking and perception of one&#8217;s mind is different from the other,even identical twins do not perceive the same.People are free to choose what they want,behave,follow and not forced by a group of people or an individual who pretends to be a speaker of others.No one is above the others to put and commands his orders to be followed by others,once this attain,signifies the respect and tolerance all of us need to have,otherwise hatred,fightings,terrorism will never and ever end,since the same perception and wishes to all human beings has never and will never occur,this is normality,physiological of what the brain is made,even fingerprints of twins are not the same and never will.Muslims should respect others,the same should be done by others to muslims,without doing so never of the peace will be attain because one could even dies to protects what he believes and non will change,this is principal of humanity.People should not been driven emmotionally because we can not reach somewhere good.Lets every indivial remains to his/her stance,our interactions will be based by some characteristics we do share,example we are all human beings,we can participate in many issues regardless of our differences.No one could claim her traditional to be the best than others,it is the best to her,so lets propagate respect,love and understanding of each other,thus why we were not created to be similar in everything!!.If the world was similar there will be no beauty we see on its diversity.We are one world,one sisters and brothers&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.LETS HAVE A REALLY  RESPECT TO EACH OTHER!!!!!.Thanks,I am a black african dude,24 yrs old,Tanzanian,medical <a href="mailto:student....akyala@live.com">student&#8230;.akyala@live.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: George Carty</title>
		<link>http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/01/25/review_of_london_lecture_on_french_hijab_politics#comment-394</link>
		<dc:creator>George Carty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Could hostility to hijab among French (and other) secularists be explained by the view that &quot;the hijab reminds people who see it that God exists&quot; (to use Nakata Khaula&#039;s words)?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Could hostility to hijab among French (and other) secularists be explained by the view that &#8220;the hijab reminds people who see it that God exists&#8221; (to use Nakata Khaula&#8217;s words)?</p>
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		<title>By: George Carty</title>
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		<dc:creator>George Carty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the author in question was a naturist, and simply wanted to bash Islam on account of it being the only major faith which explicitly prohibits nudity.

What did you think of the rest of my message, by the way?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the author in question was a naturist, and simply wanted to bash Islam on account of it being the only major faith which explicitly prohibits nudity.</p>

<p>What did you think of the rest of my message, by the way?</p>
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		<title>By: Abul Layth</title>
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		<dc:creator>Abul Layth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would respond with several questions for the questioner:

1) What is terrorism? And what is your intended meaning by it?

2) WHat is the correlation between &quot;terrorism&quot; and &quot;modesty&quot;?

Then I would mention the Sufic nations, peaceloving, being modest and yet having no inclinations towards violence, save for defense.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would respond with several questions for the questioner:</p>

<p>1) What is terrorism? And what is your intended meaning by it?</p>

<p>2) WHat is the correlation between &#8220;terrorism&#8221; and &#8220;modesty&#8221;?</p>

<p>Then I would mention the Sufic nations, peaceloving, being modest and yet having no inclinations towards violence, save for defense.</p>
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		<title>By: George Carty</title>
		<link>http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/01/25/review_of_london_lecture_on_french_hijab_politics#comment-391</link>
		<dc:creator>George Carty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@henna:
&lt;blockquote&gt;god their sickness is amazing.

they openly talk of how they want Muslim women to be promiscuous and indulge in fornication.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
The article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/000820.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Another Modest Proposal - Impose America&#039;s Decadent Culture on the Muslims&lt;/a&gt; explains what&#039;s going on (although I think that the title as a bit of a misnomer, as Europe is surely more &quot;decadent&quot; - at least in terms of sexual morals - than America).

The article&#039;s tag line is &quot;For one who is attached to the Ally McBealized West, the Ally McBealization of the rest of the world becomes a practical necessity.&quot;  The article also claims that the obvious alternative of reversing the West&#039;s slide into promiscuity and loose morals is impossible, because the root cause of the West&#039;s loose sexual morals as an effective excess of females over males.

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;As for de-Ally McBealizing America, I would love to hear your plan. But any plan would have to deal with the root cause of America’s slide into sexual license, which is the skewed effective sex ratio generated by modernity. Modern societies simply have too many women chasing too few marriageable (not just fully able to shoulder the minimum economic, social, and familial responsibilities of husband/father, but also “acceptable” to the marriageable woman, e.g., smarter, taller, older, more successful, and more educated than her.) Some of the big “culprits” are ending death in childbirth (eliminating the supply of widowers in search of a new mother for their children), and, especially, mass education of women (because women are loath to “marry down” education-wise, while men are happy to).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

(Incidentally, the right-wing author of that article has omitted to mention corporate globalization, which renderd huge numbers of Western men &quot;unworthy of marriage&quot; by exporting their jobs to third-world countries.  Women are less hard hit as the &quot;caring&quot; jobs which women are naturally better at require face-to-face interaction and thus cannot be exported abroad.)

If one looks at the Western city which was noted for its sexual licentiousness at any given point in the 20th century, you will notice that it always has more women than men.  Sometimes, like Paris in the 1920s, this is because a large number of men were recently killed in a war, whereas in other instances, like Mod-era London, or like LA/Hollywood in the 1930s or today, this is because the glamour and glitz of the showbiz industry has lured in a large number of pretty young women.

@Abul Layth:
&lt;blockquote&gt;Also, who gave men the &quot;right&quot; to see women uncovered?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20050406232200/http://www.teklinepublishing.com/natpeace.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; suggested cultures accepting of nudity (especially female nudity) are less violent than more modest cultures.  How would you respond to someone who blamed Islamic terrorism on Islamic modesty?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@henna:</p>

<blockquote>god their sickness is amazing.

they openly talk of how they want Muslim women to be promiscuous and indulge in fornication.</blockquote>

<p>The article <a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/000820.html">Another Modest Proposal - Impose America&#8217;s Decadent Culture on the Muslims</a> explains what&#8217;s going on (although I think that the title as a bit of a misnomer, as Europe is surely more &#8220;decadent&#8221; - at least in terms of sexual morals - than America).</p>

<p>The article&#8217;s tag line is &#8220;For one who is attached to the Ally McBealized West, the Ally McBealization of the rest of the world becomes a practical necessity.&#8221;  The article also claims that the obvious alternative of reversing the West&#8217;s slide into promiscuity and loose morals is impossible, because the root cause of the West&#8217;s loose sexual morals as an effective excess of females over males.</p>

<blockquote><i>As for de-Ally McBealizing America, I would love to hear your plan. But any plan would have to deal with the root cause of America’s slide into sexual license, which is the skewed effective sex ratio generated by modernity. Modern societies simply have too many women chasing too few marriageable (not just fully able to shoulder the minimum economic, social, and familial responsibilities of husband/father, but also “acceptable” to the marriageable woman, e.g., smarter, taller, older, more successful, and more educated than her.) Some of the big “culprits” are ending death in childbirth (eliminating the supply of widowers in search of a new mother for their children), and, especially, mass education of women (because women are loath to “marry down” education-wise, while men are happy to).</i></blockquote>

<p>(Incidentally, the right-wing author of that article has omitted to mention corporate globalization, which renderd huge numbers of Western men &#8220;unworthy of marriage&#8221; by exporting their jobs to third-world countries.  Women are less hard hit as the &#8220;caring&#8221; jobs which women are naturally better at require face-to-face interaction and thus cannot be exported abroad.)</p>

<p>If one looks at the Western city which was noted for its sexual licentiousness at any given point in the 20th century, you will notice that it always has more women than men.  Sometimes, like Paris in the 1920s, this is because a large number of men were recently killed in a war, whereas in other instances, like Mod-era London, or like LA/Hollywood in the 1930s or today, this is because the glamour and glitz of the showbiz industry has lured in a large number of pretty young women.</p>

<p>@Abul Layth:</p>

<blockquote>Also, who gave men the &#8220;right&#8221; to see women uncovered?</blockquote>

<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050406232200/http://www.teklinepublishing.com/natpeace.htm">This article</a> suggested cultures accepting of nudity (especially female nudity) are less violent than more modest cultures.  How would you respond to someone who blamed Islamic terrorism on Islamic modesty?</p>
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		<title>By: Abul Layth</title>
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		<dc:creator>Abul Layth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;why are they so keen to push their filth onto us rather than acknowledge and learn the lesson of chastity outside of marriage?

Egocentrism! I do believe that Chirac was correct in labeling the Khimar an &quot;aggression&quot;. It is aggressive towards promiscuity, whoredom, and the list goes on &amp; on...

I agree with indigo-jo that the khimar is a symbol of femininity. I recall a discussion with a non-muslim coworker of mine saying that he saw the &quot;veil&quot; as a mark of &#039;attraction&#039;, raising the question of &#039;how beautiful are you really?&#039;

Also, who gave men the &quot;right&quot; to see women uncovered? Do men then have the &quot;right&quot; to see her breasts? If men&#039;s feelings are so important, then why don&#039;t they allow men to grope, sexually harass, or even rape women - for indeed why isn&#039;t it the &quot;right&quot; of men, if by analogy of following desire and being able to look at beauty, to then TOUCH beauty? If one forwards that looking is not an invasion of personal privacy or personal freedoms, then I ask, &quot;why do we have blinds, curtains, walls, clothes, etc.&quot;
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  <p>why are they so keen to push their filth onto us rather than acknowledge and learn the lesson of chastity outside of marriage?</p>
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<p>Egocentrism! I do believe that Chirac was correct in labeling the Khimar an &#8220;aggression&#8221;. It is aggressive towards promiscuity, whoredom, and the list goes on &#038; on&#8230;</p>

<p>I agree with indigo-jo that the khimar is a symbol of femininity. I recall a discussion with a non-muslim coworker of mine saying that he saw the &#8220;veil&#8221; as a mark of &#8216;attraction&#8217;, raising the question of &#8216;how beautiful are you really?&#8217;</p>

<p>Also, who gave men the &#8220;right&#8221; to see women uncovered? Do men then have the &#8220;right&#8221; to see her breasts? If men&#8217;s feelings are so important, then why don&#8217;t they allow men to grope, sexually harass, or even rape women - for indeed why isn&#8217;t it the &#8220;right&#8221; of men, if by analogy of following desire and being able to look at beauty, to then TOUCH beauty? If one forwards that looking is not an invasion of personal privacy or personal freedoms, then I ask, &#8220;why do we have blinds, curtains, walls, clothes, etc.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: henna</title>
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		<dc:creator>henna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>god their sickness is amazing.

they openly talk of how they want muslim women to be promiscous and indulge in fornication.

what would jesus think of that?

why are they so keen to push their filth onto us rather than acknowledge and learn the lesson of chastity outside of marriage?

May Allah defeat these monsters and grant patience and victory to those who follow truth.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>god their sickness is amazing.</p>

<p>they openly talk of how they want muslim women to be promiscous and indulge in fornication.</p>

<p>what would jesus think of that?</p>

<p>why are they so keen to push their filth onto us rather than acknowledge and learn the lesson of chastity outside of marriage?</p>

<p>May Allah defeat these monsters and grant patience and victory to those who follow truth.</p>
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		<title>By: Noora</title>
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		<dc:creator>Noora</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I listened to her when she was talking on bbc radio 4 and I found it interesting especially when she mentioned Charles De Gaulle.  I think she mentioned that their were actually very few girs at the time of the ban wearing Hijab in France less than a few thousand
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I listened to her when she was talking on bbc radio 4 and I found it interesting especially when she mentioned Charles De Gaulle.  I think she mentioned that their were actually very few girs at the time of the ban wearing Hijab in France less than a few thousand</p>
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		<title>By: aafreen</title>
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		<dc:creator>aafreen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>great accounts many thanks for this i really wawnted to attend but was unable.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>great accounts many thanks for this i really wawnted to attend but was unable.</p>
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