Stone-age Ignorance
Despite what you may hear from various sources, Australia isn't a multicutural country per se, and not all cultures are equal. I'll elaborate. Australia is multi-racial but it is not simply multicultural. I'm multiculural in the sense that I'll eat Thai food, appreciate aboriginal paintings, and watch Turkish belly dancers. However, I have no time for the following ludicrous and misogynistic filth:
The nation's most senior Muslim cleric has blamed immodestly dressed women who don't wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned "meat" that attracts voracious animals.
In a Ramadan sermon that has outraged Muslim women leaders, Sydney-based Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali also alluded to the infamous Sydney gang rapes, suggesting the attackers were not entirely to blame.
While not specifically referring to the rapes, brutal attacks on four women for which a group of young Lebanese men received long jail sentences, Sheik Hilali said there were women who "sway suggestively" and wore make-up and immodest dress ... "and then you get a judge without mercy (rahma) and gives you 65 years".
Words. Fail. Me. In what century is this clown living? And this is from an "enlightened" spiritual leader? Why don't we just burn all women who can read as well? Clearly they are witches. As this editorial suggests, it is as though some - I emphasise not all - Muslim immigrants travel forward in time when they arrive in modern Western societies.
I'm not saying we don't have sexist and ignorant fools in Western society. We have plenty. And the abuse and persection of people due to their sex, religion or race were very much widespread in Europe. However, Western society has gone through a number of progressive steps (such as the Reformation and the Enlightenment), and continues to do so. Thusly, I reckon one can say a culture is superiour to another in certain apsects. For instance, I think the Japanese male treatment of women is wrong. Similarly, some Swedish women think Australian men joke in a sexist and offensive manner (which they mask as larrikinism). There is no reason whatsoever why a culture cannot evolve (if you believe in that crazy notion of evolution of course).
What amazes me even more is the fuss that PM John Howard caused a couple months back when he said that certain people in the Muslim society - he stressed it was a minority - do not follow beliefs that pertain to ours in Australia such as the equal treatment of women. Now, you certainly won't find me sending any Christmas cards to the not-so-honest John Howard, but you have to admit he has a point.
Multiculturalism is all good and well, but it doesn't apply to all apsects of a culture. Those of the latte-sipping persuassion who say otherwise should try living in the ethnic slums which litter Europe.
The nation's most senior Muslim cleric has blamed immodestly dressed women who don't wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned "meat" that attracts voracious animals.
In a Ramadan sermon that has outraged Muslim women leaders, Sydney-based Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali also alluded to the infamous Sydney gang rapes, suggesting the attackers were not entirely to blame.
While not specifically referring to the rapes, brutal attacks on four women for which a group of young Lebanese men received long jail sentences, Sheik Hilali said there were women who "sway suggestively" and wore make-up and immodest dress ... "and then you get a judge without mercy (rahma) and gives you 65 years".
Words. Fail. Me. In what century is this clown living? And this is from an "enlightened" spiritual leader? Why don't we just burn all women who can read as well? Clearly they are witches. As this editorial suggests, it is as though some - I emphasise not all - Muslim immigrants travel forward in time when they arrive in modern Western societies.
I'm not saying we don't have sexist and ignorant fools in Western society. We have plenty. And the abuse and persection of people due to their sex, religion or race were very much widespread in Europe. However, Western society has gone through a number of progressive steps (such as the Reformation and the Enlightenment), and continues to do so. Thusly, I reckon one can say a culture is superiour to another in certain apsects. For instance, I think the Japanese male treatment of women is wrong. Similarly, some Swedish women think Australian men joke in a sexist and offensive manner (which they mask as larrikinism). There is no reason whatsoever why a culture cannot evolve (if you believe in that crazy notion of evolution of course).
What amazes me even more is the fuss that PM John Howard caused a couple months back when he said that certain people in the Muslim society - he stressed it was a minority - do not follow beliefs that pertain to ours in Australia such as the equal treatment of women. Now, you certainly won't find me sending any Christmas cards to the not-so-honest John Howard, but you have to admit he has a point.
Multiculturalism is all good and well, but it doesn't apply to all apsects of a culture. Those of the latte-sipping persuassion who say otherwise should try living in the ethnic slums which litter Europe.
posted by Engels at 12:59 pm
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