Apartheid Fashions: Hirsi Ali on the Muslim Veil

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[nhungerford]

Expelled from Saudi Arabia. Unsafe in Europe. The libertarian-minded atheist, Ayaan Hirsi Ali will not be silenced. In her latest book, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, the former Muslim takes on the Muslim veil (p. 16):

The Muslim veil, the different sorts of masks and beaks and burkas, are all gradations of mental slavery. You must ask permission to leave the house, and when you do go out you must always hide yourself behind thick drapery. Ashamed of your body, suppressing your desires – what small space in your life can you call your own?

It is a question that Muslim-first libertarians (often middleclass white males), don’t like to answer, probably because they can’t (in a convincing manner). It is a question left-liberal college women like to avoid, in order to show off their supposed multicultural credentials. But is Ayaan Hirsi Ali creating problems or facing problems when she talks frankly?

In a toxic religious culture, Muslim-first libertarians side with the rights of men over women. They side with a patriarchal religion over a woman’s right to sunlight. They are siding with propaganda (fed by censorship) today too when they insist that all Muslim women just choose to veil up. Indeed only uncaring ideologues would deny the power of Stockholm syndrome and the reality of domestic violence for the woman who doesn’t cover:

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.

[greatdefender]

“Ashamed of your body, suppressing your desires – what small space in your life can you call your own?”

With these “religion of peace”, is very simple

NOTHING!

[Gay State Conservative]

Moslem women have,since the beginning of that filthy death cult,been seen by *all* moslem men and *most* moslem women as being worthless beasts no more important than the family goat herd.

[antiRepublicrat]

The sad part is that Islam was actually an improvement over the treatment of women in the area at the time.