The View from within the prism: Religious(muslim) women.. Thing I love the most about the green revolution.. Not wise just wiser : Jealousy and such.. Total Ignorance is Bliss..
I won’t claim to be the expert about how women view themselves from within Islam but at least I do interact and discuss the issue with them. Actually my mother’s viewpoint is the one that I get to hear the most and the one that i like the most
I can summarize it in a single phrase that she repeats often. “those sheiks got nothing on their mind but women, their issues and how corrupting women are. If they paid just as much attention to anything else we would be way better off”. This is and off itself is fascinating to me, because its mostly true and requires a distinct way of thinking to make it work.
From my view point I find that being a devout religious women is certainly quite the interesting identity to have. Since at one hand you are fighting for your recognition in a mainly misogynistic and patriarchal society. On the other hand you have to suspend some of that confidence and self worth in yourself when it comes to some of what religion has to say about women in general.
That requires the women, in my humble opinion, to develop more of a personal relationship with god and religion. Where they feel that they answer more to God than the religious authorities and hence tend to be accepting of individuals’ shortcomings – more so their own but that’s beside the point.
For instance for Muslims you start with the premise of the majority of women will be in Hell, your husbands will have elves -err… sorry they call them hour- in your stead and the best you can achieve is to be considered half a man with half of his religion since you have half of his brain… oh … and you will be a minority in heaven as well.There is are some good things that religion has to say about women as well, like heaven is underneath mother’s feet and such but that usually comes as an afterthought when it’s a cross gender argument. More of a consolatory I might say since legislation and rites don’t seem to give it much credence.
The ability to turn a blind eye to such statements is truly admirable and remarkable and makes for a very interesting relationship that women develop with religion and religious figures who detract of their worth.
You know I’m not a big tree hugger, i understand the situation when it comes to climate change (atleast in layman’s terms) and i understand the need for a change in our habits and the level of consumption. Actually in my opinion probably the biggest stride to make the human race more green is to vilify consumerism … and hopefully stupidity and youth along the way.
BUT the there is one thing i really love about the green revolution. It’s a prospect and nothing substantial, but i hope from the bottom of my heart that it will become a reality within my lifetime.
That wish is that the oil producing country will loose a huge chunk of their income and they will have to move their slow brains into action . the fact that that they make money because they are squatting on a plot of land hasn’t been healthy to them.
So when i read this in the times, how they want to levy a tax on countries that move away from petrol into alternative resources just made me laugh my ass off at how stupid those guys can be… I just wish to the see the day when they can no longer rely on petrol for defining who they are as people
Here is the gem…err brain fart:
“Assisting us as oil-exporting countries in achieving economic diversification is very crucial for us through foreign direct investments, technology transfer, insurance and funding,” Mr. Sabban said in an e-mail message.
[one of the posts that were in the incubator for the past 4 months .... i think i might as well post it , didn't review it so pardon the grammatical catastrof**k]
You can never say that yoat time tucked away in a corner for you to look over later on… So this is what I’m doing right now. u became wise, only wiser and it is fairly mind numbing that no matter how far you think you got in retrospect you realize how little you traversed and sometimes when you are hit with a torrent of experiences, emotions, problems, and issues. I personally think that it helps to just keep some of what you learned and the questions that spun in your mind at th
It’s funny and sad that when you allow your emotions to thaw and you allow yourself to be selfish by acknowledging your existence and individuality that you tend to catch up and have a crash course in a lot of life lessons that are more fit for a teenager than an adult, but that’s the reality I live in and I won’t be willing to go back into Narnia.
One of those life lessons i missed on was jealousy, before i never could comprehend it. Well now i understand it a bit better but it certainly is a peculiar emotion and not an easy one to dissect. I’m using the word dissect because every time i feel a new emotions – yes this makes me sound autistic i know – I try to figure out where it came from and why wasn’t it there before. So with jealousy I’ve been struggling with it for a while, but i managed to finally get somewhere… At first i thought ignoring it would be the best solution but that was a mistake since the void grew bigger.
So when i dug a bit deeper i realized that it wasn’t a single emotion and jealousy is just triggered by other emotions and i could so far put my hand on three; One of those is self perceived inadequacy, the other is fear of loss, and the last one is being denied what you want. Quite simple, eh ? well recognizing the trigger is one thing and dealing with it as a whole is another but at the end I can simply say that to counteract it you would need to practice hard a really simple exercise. To control your fear you need to understand that fear is born out of the dark corners of our mind and it keeps on feeding on itself and the negative thoughts and perceptions it creates until it becomes a cyclic loop of destruction. To break it simply think positive and trust yourself, of course easier said that done but it works.
Where do you draw the line between your life and that of your parents ? When is it OK to be selfish to live your own life rather than just be under the fold? Is it the child’s responsibility to accommodate for the parents’ “bad” choices/behaviors and bear with it endlessly ? is it the responsibility of a single child or does everyone participate ? Is it OK to lie to them to make them happy even if it gets you to the point that they don’t really know you any more ? What right does a sibling have to meddle in the life of another ?
I have some answers to those questions, and I’m attempting to answer the others but I’m edging towards my stress threshold… Is it my fault for being considerate and trying to have it both ways; my way and theirs ?
This might give the impression that i’m confused or that i can’t make up my mind about things, while that might be the case usually it’s totally not the case here. I perfectly know what i want, I just don’t think i deserve it, and I don’t think it’s fair for others. Is it really that selfish to choose to be happy ? I no longer think happiness is a happenstance emotion, it is firmly a choice. The question is simply will I choose it ?
Mr. Abdul Mouti Bayoumi didn’t find it enough to condone genital mutilation, and he didn’t feel the threat of death is enough of a deterrent for an adulteress so he had to soil the situation even further by asking for the death penalty for people who import female virginity faking kit.
Now step back a bit … the whole concept of female virginity kit that would break releasing a blood like liquid is a different level of disgusting. Their existence just attests to the stupidity of the people that require them, because if you check some medical information you would know that not everyone bleeds when they lose their virginity.
Back to the topic at hand, instead of promoting a culture of forgiveness and trying to stretch the small blanket of acceptance that Islam has, the Sunni scholars who seem to be stuck in a time warp in the 16th century keep insisting on shrinking it !
Then again the whole culture as a whole doesn’t promote any decent environment for elevating the conversation to any reasonable level. For instance the fact that as nutty as Gadaffi’s UN speech, which made the translator collapse and had no regard for other people’s time stretching the 15 minute allotment to an 1 hour 40 minutes still had some people finding it reasonable and finding some of its nuttier points – swine flu was engineered in a governmental lab as a biological weapon – plausible.
That brings me to the other point, the craze for swine flu is hitting the Arab world hard ! have you seen those stupid Saudi infomercials ? Besides the point that Egypt, Jordan, and some other Arab countries decided that Pigs are responsible for spreading the flu and hence massacred thousands of pigs … Is there anyone in the ministry of health at those countries who understands anything about anything when it comes to pathology? Or even the other reaction they are having to it, they are delaying the schools in the entire gulf region until mid October to help control the spread of a flu… get it ? it’s a damn flu, something that has been happening over and over and over, there is a reason its called a flu season and this one is not different.
You know what i think is at the root of this whole swine flu hysteria ? It’s called Swine flu, that’s it! when it was the bird flu no body cared, when you say to a Muslim the word “pig” they involuntarily shrug, and hence because its called swine flu it makes it all the more scarier, they might be tainted by the filthiest of all creations ! STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID !
So the new moon scientifically starts on thursday night (the 19th) that means Friday should be the first day of Ramadan, but since the Shiites are starting their fast on Friday how much would you want to bet that Saudi is going to falsely declare it on Saturday ? And that would be after finally agreeing to allow the use of the telescope in sighting the new moon, 300 years after its invention, and what are they going to do about it ? ignore it while of course !
Now whats the word that i’m looking for that would describe the situation ….. oh it’s PETTY !
Arabic language games or arabic speaking games is so low ? well atleast they are starting to produce some for the Iphone you got to start somewhere dontcha
This gets really interesting at 2:30 and still trying to wrap my head about the whole thing, but there is one thing that i know and that it is certainly damn good just for making me think about the issue at hand btw this was directed by Heath ledger, so i guess you get an idea of how he can depict the Joker so impeccably
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