Ogle but don't touch

I try very hard to keep my fingers from writing anything about politics or religion.  To me, both are intimate pleasures, not to be paraded through the media.

I'm keeping my word about politics for now.

But religion.  Well.....

Being a believer in free thought and personal choice in religion (and other things, but that's another story), I have stayed away from blogging my thoughts about Islam teachings. 

Yes I have read a translated version of the Qur'an.  I'm not impressed.  But most religious myths don't do a lot for me. 

This street corner Islamic cleric in Toronto goes a little far. 

Just imagine Canadian females obeying some paternalistic law ordering us to cover ourselves to keep males from forming lewd thoughts about our bodies.  Might as well shave polar bears in the summer, eh?

So this Al-Haashim Kamena Atangana, a child of immigrant parents who wanted a better life for their children, failed at understanding Christianity, so embraced Islam as their immans spoon feed religious, well-watered pap in understandable bits to the masses, now hopes to enact laws demanding Canadian - no, make that Torontonian - women to stop dressing provocatively.  

I'm going to go out on a limb here.  I'll bet actual money he's been refused sex by more than one Canadian woman.  So converting means he has a great chance at getting married to some poor girl who doesn't have a whole lot of say in the matter.  After all, he's a born Canadian.  Just that Canadian citizenship means he's perfect mate material for a middle eastern girl whose family wants to get over here. 

I have watched these so-called enlightened Islamic religious males walk around in shorts in front of their gaggle of black-shrouded crones in Calgary's broiling summer.  He, unencumbered, walks proudly ahead of the sweating, fully black-covered, little woman, whose arms are full of shopping and babies.  What kind of chauvinistic idiot would do that to a loved one?  Not only does he insist she wear inappropriate clothing for the weather, but that she become his pack mule as well.

And in winter, again she's still clad in that shrouding burka, shivering, cause there's just no room for a good winter coat under that getup.

Oh, right.  This is probably an arranged marriage.  If it doesn't work out he can shout out loud that he divorces her.  There's plenty more where she comes from.

Gods, what a backward culture.

Canadians, well most of us, live in a climate where  it's usually bloody cold.  Freezing for 7-10 months of the year.  So in the summer we get those vitamin D deprived bodies out to soak up the rays.  That means we dress to show as much skin as possible.

So to hear this 'confused Christian' now Islamic convert , Al-Haashim Kamena Atangana, (read about his letter here for one http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/07/16/19990461.html)

spouting that Islamic standard rhetoric  about 'female lack of clothing' making males wild with passion.  You offend me greatly.

Maybe, if Islamic men had a childhood of decent upbringing, like being held accountable for their temper tantrums, if it's not yours you can't touch and respect for women, we wouldn't see the acts of volient terrorism perpetrated upon free women in our country.

I used to see in news reports, that the upsurge of rapes in major cities is committed done by ethnic males - read middle eastern males.  I also know the police are no longer able to relay this info and the media is forbidden to print the ethnicity of the perpetrator.   

If our males knew the stats, you think there wouldn't be riots?  And vigilante-ism?  Wouldn't we train our daughters in martial arts, so they'd have a chance of escaping these thugs?

And it's not just our country that denies us the right to know who commits these violent rapes.  Great Britian, Australia and the Netherlands can't print this infomation either, I found after a great deal of digging.   Probably others, but I haven't been able to find the information.  I think I started digging too late, and that information got buried before I started hunting.

When I read Middle Eastern news, I see many instances of rape and violence perpetuated against their womenfolk.  Stoning for 'adultery' after a rape.   Or being forced to marry your rapist.  Minors married off and subjected to non-consentual sex/rape.  Honour killings, because she might have talked (horrors) to a boy outside of her family.  Slavery - daughters sold so the family can afford a son's education.  Unannounced 'group' marriages because a family can only afford one bride for several brothers.  Acid in faces for going to school.  That's just what gets published.  Most doesn't even get reported, so I've read.  These women don't have rights, so who'd listen.
 
They ain't pretty stories, folks.  Not a culture we want to get any foothold in this freer land.

When I read the Qu'arn, I never read anything about women being second class citizens.  I don't particularly like what I did read in that book, but it wasn't any more offensive than the Christian books of myths.  

But their 'learned' clerics have overbearing misogynistic  tendencies.  I personally think they are afraid of women.  All women.  Afraid to let them be educated or shop by themselves.

Once the Islamic society held a prominent place in science and philosophy - with respected, educated women contributors.   Think about their history - try to read it now before fundamental Islamics finish burning the whole of Timbukto and it's ancient texts of wisdom. 

Hey doesn't this sound a awful lot like Alexandria and the Christians burning the library of information, so we lost centuries of  advancements.  Guess we have to endure the dark ages again, this time for the Islamic sky fairy, Allah.  Brought to you by a pedophile by the name of Muhammed.

Maybe I'd think better of the immigrant Islamics, if they fought for change and peace in their own country.  Or stood up to be counted when one of their fellow escapees backslides into barbarianism here in North America, instead of applauding the viscious actions by their very silence.

Instead I see them come to my country for a better life, then try to instigate their backward culture and laws on our society.

I don't want to tell them to go home.  They deserve a better life than the war-torn one they left, don't they?  Our ancestors came here for that very reason.  

But maybe they should learn to live our way, before saying we should enact laws to 'cover women's bodies' or other forms of Sharia law. Maybe they should bring their boys up to be real men, not little boys in grown-up male bodies with no ability to stop grabbing what isn't theirs.

To have this street cleric, this immigrant's son, now converted to Islam as that religion isn't as 'confusing', spouting bullshit about Canadian women's clothing or lack thereof, just riles me.  If he wants to have the culture that he spouts, go somewhere where the law states that.  Don't try and change our laws.

There aren't enough of you to change laws to force us to cover up.

Yet!