Islamic Extremists Respond to Sarkozy’s Headdress Ban

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A few weeks back Lisa Takeuchi Cullen sparked an interesting debate when she disagreed with a proposed French law that would ban Burkas and headdresses in public.

As I was cruising Afghan jihadist websites this morning, I came across an opinion piece from the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” blog. (An aside: IEA is the name that insurgents/Taliban use when they talk about Afghanistan. Everybody else refers to it as The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.)

The post quotes a French Muslim woman, who says she’d rather light herself on fire than leave the house without a veil on.

One small part of the essay does manage to make a good point though, saying that while women in the west may have more freedoms, the image of their nakedness is everywhere and that can be debasing to them as individuals. I’m guessing this will be the last time I even remotely agree with the Taliban about anything.

Below, I’ve pasted a big chunk of the essay, the rest can be found here.

We know that in some countries who ostensibly raise slogans of democracy more than the rest of the world and are apparently supporting women rights, are arrogantly bent on depriving the Muslim women of their rights to education, work and other inalienable rights under the so-called pretext of veil. Still these pious and determined women are defending their rights of liberty against all odds .

Marzia, a French Muslim woman told lslamonline that she would set fire to herself if she was forced to abandon wearing the veil. She said that she felt being safe and protected in the veil. She added that she believed, she can protect her decency and honor by wearing the veil.

It seems that it is one of Sarkosy’s anti-Islamic posturing that he wants to arrogantly force Muslim women to lose their identity by mingling in the lascivious Western culture. We think, he violates the Muslim women’s rights to freely keep their identity.

Mr. Sarkozy and supporters of his views want to drag the Muslim women to the miserable level of the Western women who have lost both their decency and personality by exposing their bodies naked. They have become a show piece for some fornicators especially in their time of youth. These licentious men hang naked photos of women everywhere even on some valueless items like shampoo, toothpaste etc. If one happens to see the coastal areas and sea sides of France, then one very easily reach the conclusion what kind of freedom, and personality Sarkozy wants for the Muslim women.

Women are forced in France and London and other European countries to turn to pornography . Thousands of women are smuggled from Russia and the Caucuses and young girls are surreptitiously brought to pander to the sexual desires of some unscrupulous lascivious persons. The question arises why they do not make any effort to save these miserable women from the humiliating life and to protect their personalities. But Mr. Sarkozy and some of his western supporters who are born and grown in a family environment where they are attached with such way of life, are now bent on jeopardizing the Muslim women personally.