Posted on 08/09/2009 12:41:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Is that one of the new villains from Stargate Universe? First look!
Actually she has been.. a lot. She's not called Elizabeth Taylor of the jihad for nothing.
“the sun will rise in the west” bump
Am I first? Guilty.
Man hands.
The author (Neighbour) is an idiot:
“During her exhaustive investigation of Islamic culture, Neighbour herself became less prone to judge.
Her view toward people that the West sees as Islamic extremists and thus fears and loathes has changed. “I think words like ‘extremist’ are bandied around too readily,” she says, suggesting that “extreme” does not necessarily mean “dangerous”.
As applies to Rabiah, it is possible for someone to have extreme religious or political beliefs, without either wanting to force them on others or posing a threat to people who do not share them.
“Rabiah would like to live in an Islamic state. However, she doesn’t think Australia should be one, or that anyone else should have to live in one unless they want to.”
Australia should, it seems, learn to tolerate others it sees as extreme - like the people who want to build an Islamic school in Camden, New South Wales - and realize that their beliefs, extreme or otherwise, pose no threat.
Like many Australians, Neighbour once reacted with horror when she saw a woman in what she called a burqa although the black Islamic face veil worn by Salafist women in Australia is actually called a niqab (the burqa is the Afghan all-in-one gown that covers the face).
Neighbour once saw the veil as a symbol of oppression and ignorance and tyranny. But she has discovered that women who wear the veil are usually “tough, independent, feisty, funny and very strong - they have to be to put up with the abuse they cop”.
Now, when Neighbour sees a veil, she just registers a garment that happens to signify a particular religious belief. “And I know that behind it there is a woman - just like me.”
Wow that took longer than I expected. My first thoughts too.
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