So it's the niqab now??

I am really pissed off because the last thing I remember was that we were having a debate about whether women should wear the veil or not. This has now developed (or regressed to be more accurate) into a debate on whether the fucking niqab should be worn.

This is a brief chronology of our sad regression: 60 or 70 years ago people like Salama Mousa were promoting very liberal and progressive ideas about women rights and liberation. 30 or 40 years ago you would walk in the streets od Cairo and not see a single veil (back then there were two types of women: the westernized and the baladi with their "melaya laf" which I do not consider a veil. It is more of a traditional dress like the Indian sari). Women back then were well on their way to freedom and empowerment. They were getting jobs and careers and achieving some really impressive shit.

Come the eighties (the Iran revolution, Sadat assasination and the CIA paying fucking millions to prop up the mujahedeen in Afghanistan against the evil soviets) we started seeing the veil and islamistts were definitely on the rise.

From there, things got from bad to worse with the help of some really nasty dudes like Sadat, Reagan, Bin laden and Dubya (to mention just a few).

Well. Tonight booze is the answer cause I dont like the question.

Fuck these crazy Imams

This little shit is Mohammed Al Habdan, a Saudi Imam who has recently called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.

According to this moron, a niqab that shows both eyes is too sexy. The whole veil thing is getting very silly. First they came up with the veil that covers the hair, then the niqab, and now the one eye business.

The dick head Habdan is also quoted as saying that women should not get out of their homes at all unless they are sick or dying and need urgent medical attention.

He has also criticized the Saudi information minister because the Saudi TV (which is one of the most dull TV channels in the whole world) is too obscene.

Somebody has to stop those crazy imams from spreading their cancerous poison. If this madness was restricted to the confines of the borders of Saudi Arabia it would have been fine. The danger is that this shit travels around very fast and nowhere in the world can be immune.

Mrs. Bin Laden Again

The story of Bin laden's son marrying a British grandmother twice his age has taken an interesting twist.

Omar Osama Bin Laden is upset about the publicity that his wedding attracted. He told Al Watan Newspaper that her nationality is not an issue for him. What matters to him is her religion and her good behavior, but according to this Mrs. Bin Laden's behaviour hasn't been that good. She has been cheating on the Al Qaida's big boss's son. What will Omar Bin Laden do now? Stone his new bride to death?

The other interesting thing is that in this article, Mrs. Bin Laden is quoted as saying that her husband trained to be a terrorist in Afghanistan till he was 19 years old, but then he left his father "because he wanted to see the world and didn't want to fight and die young."

This is really amazing. Osama Bin Laden persuaded loads of young men to die for him, but couldn't convince his own son or maybe he didn't want to.

the ultra religious invasion

It saddens me when I see the Egyptian society becoming a backward ultra religious male dominated and female oppressing society.

I was invited to an engagement party and the scene there was horrifying:

The father of the bride borrowed his neighbour's appartment in order to seggregate men and women. The women in the girls flat and the men in the neighbour's flat.

Ofcoarse no music, no dancing and no open bar. Just bearded men sitting and talking.

In the women's flat all were either veiled or niqabed and the same sombre mood. More like a funeral really.

Throughout the "party" the groom stayed in the men's flat. I asked the father of the bride how the groom will offer the engagement ring to his fiancee if they are in two different flats and the answer I got was: "The groom's mother will give the ring to the girl"!!!

"Why?" I asked in horror and the girl's father said, "if we let him give her the ring himself he will have to hold her hand and that would be haram wouldn't it?"

What the fuck is going on in this country? Has everybody gone mad? These are not hard line terrorists. They are supposed to be normal people. The Egyptian society has transformed over the past 30 years from a relaxed secular society to a weirdly radicalized one thanks to Iran and Saudi Arabia.

The Niqab at AUC Madness

An Egyptian court ruled on Saturday that the American University in Cairo (AUC) was wrong to bar a female scholar who wears the f***ing niqab from using its library.

The woman sued the AUC over the niqab because she wanted to defend her "personal and religious freedom" and the AUC said that "while it recognized the need to respect the religious values of students, it had barred the niqab due to safety concerns."

I think that both this mad woman and the AUC are full of shit.

I don't care what wahabis and their Egyptian friends say, the niqab should be banned everywhere and men and women who believe in this ancient bedouin form of female oppression should be treated as mental cases and afforded professional psychiatric help. Personal freedom my ass. If the AUC is really "a bastion of Western liberal education in Egypt", why don't the take a strong stand against the niqab instead of this pathetic pussyfooting?

And its ridiculous that courts are wasting time on this kind of shit. Courts should have better things to do like trying drug dealers corrupt officials and police officers who torture people.

Good morning Taliban

Egypt is turning into a scary place. After the blogger Kareem Amer was sentenced to 4 years in prison for insulting Islam and the Egyptian president it seems that the fundamentalists are emboldened and pushing harder for their agenda.

All copies of Egyptian feminist writer, activist and medical doctor Nawal Al Saadawi's latest book, God Resigns in the Summit Meeting, were removed from circulation and destroyed last week by her publisher.

Saadawi and her daughter, Dr. Mona Helmi, were interrogated by a general prosecutor on January 28 after being accused of renouncing religion.

And there are reports that Saadawi has fled
Egypt because of concerns about her safety.

I am pessimistic :(

Zaqzuq attacking the veil

The minister of religious endowments, Hamdi Zaqzuq, expelled an official from a meeting after she refused to remove her niqab (full veil covering the face).

The woman was one of 50 people appointed to provide religious guidance. Fully veiled women have now been banned from the post because the minister feared they would "promote the culture of the niqab".

Zaqzuq is a sleeze ball and I seriously doubt that he is expressing a genuine opinion or taking this stand because of what he believes in. He is simply doing what he is told to do. According to this:

The Egyptian authorities have grown concerned about the direction the veil debate is heading. They have now drawn the line at the niqab — the all-black billowing gown and face covering common in Saudi Arabia. A small but growing minority of Egyptian women are taking the niqab. Since it wasn’t that many years ago that only a small number of women wore the head scarf, the latest trend is being watched carefully.

The Egyptian authorities have begun to see this dress as a security threat, because it hides the face, and because it is perceived as a political statement, a rejection of the state in favor of a strict Islamic system.

Now at least 80% of women in Egypt wear the veil and the niqab is spreading fast. Read this encounter that an Egyptian woman had with "Dr. Niqab".

Veils are a bad idea

The Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas published a link from Youtube of Saudi youth sexually harrassing two girls wearing the full veil (the niqab). It appears from the audio that one of the girls is Egyptian and the other is Sudanese. They were probably going home after finishing work.

Isn't the veil supposed to protect women by making them appear sexless???

So how come that in Saudi Arabia (the cradle of Islam) the veil isn't having that effect?? What do they have to wear then, full body armour??

The veil has failed miserably I think

Watch that video

I rest my case.