Tim Blair

That NY Post article is fascinating. I had no idea that the hijab head-dress for women was a recent invention.

Some time ago a bunch of academics got their usual enormous amount of liberal media publicity for their 'research' into what makes a conservative.

Here's the other side of the coin, sourced from the same organisation as the above story.

I think the Mullah has misread the scripture; it has nothing to do with the hair on their heads.
Why not run it past the Imam?
I sent him one asking what was the best cross-over to use with double bass boxes being fed by bridged 200 watt amps in a turbo Supra, but he was no use whatsoever.

Why are you bridging the amps? Why not just run them as a stereo pair?

David Letterman back around 1982 said:

"Ah, Abol-Hassan Bani-Sadr... the finest
name in Bani-Sadrs.... whenever your Bani
gets a little loose, just take out that
Abol-Hassan Bani Sadr".

Someone forgot to tell the Imam about this:

1. Yes, the compulsion of Hijaab is established from the Qur’aan and Hadith. Hence, abandoning Hijaab is a major sin.

And Allah Ta’ala Knows Best

Mufti Muhammad Kadwa
FATWA DEPT.

CHECKED AND APPROVED: Mufti Ebrahim Desai

But it doesn't say it has to be worn on the head- the hijaab may in fact be an islamic mini-skirt.

Apparently Clinton got a hijab in the Oval Office.

Monica's parents should have warned her.

Who cares what they wear on their stupid heads? Its typical that they worry about about females covering their heads (lest they send out beams that drive men crazy), instead of worrying about issues - like, I don't know, maybe the widespread poverty and illiteracy in the Muslim world? Or the fact that there is not one prosperous Democracy? Or that the oppressive policies of Islamic governments are creating millions of refugees? But why even think about those issues when they can rant about whether or not women cover their heads - a matter of real importance, obviously.

Are these the same rays as the ones emitted from boys' bodies in the (Moslem)men-only swimming pools that drive mullahs mental?

"A woman is only a woman. But a good cigar is a smoke."

Anyone else here feel that these categories have been forever collapsed?

You guys are a bit tough on Islam.

On 16 Sep 94 the Saudi Gazette in the Questions of Faith section carried the following lines: Coming to the subject of dinosaurs, it may be that they were living on earth at the time before the creation of Adam. Once their existence is established as a scientific fact, and not science fiction, there will be no hesitation in accommodating them within the universal view of the creation of Allah.

On 26 May 95 Arab News began an an article headed: A Fight until Submission, with the following: What the Qur'an teaches - Fight against those among the people of the book who do not believe in God or the last day, and do not forbid what God and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth until they pay the submission tax with a willing hand and are utterly subdued. Repentance, At-Tawbah: 9;29.

On 20 Oct 96, the Saudi Gazette reported: Dr Ahmad Al-Qadi, a cardiologist and head of the Islamic Medicine Institute in the US, proved that the Holy Qur'an increases the efficiency of the immune system and improves resistance to all kinds of diseases.

I have just typed these up from some of the many clippings I kept from my 5+ years time in Saudi.

Surely you have to agree that any religion that orders battle with Christian and Jewish unbelievers, believes a semi-incomprehensible book cures disease and denies the existence of dinosaurs, deserves respect. How could you think otherwise particularly, when the luvvies in local government in Victoria reckon Islam is the cat's meow?

Except the cat is an unclean animal.
You can only fuck them, you can't eat them.

Mind you, that may make them meow a bit.

A mullah who hailed from Bahrain,
Collapsed in the pool, quite insane,
You see he'd spied a boy's locks
While checking out cocks,
And they zapped rays right into his brain.

What would happen if a woman shaved her head? No hair = no harmful crazy rays. Maybe Sinéad O'Connor should give it a go.

What you doing slumming here, Danger man?

Whatever.

A woman who shaved her head,
And was fussy 'bout who she would bed,
Was viewed by a Mullah,
Who said 'still uncovered,
Let's make this terrible slut dead.

Live Action: Religious tolerance Muslim Style

MONASTERY BESIEGED BY POLICE AT THIS MOMENT

EGYPT

19/08/2003 : 09:00 GMT

Barnabas Fund has been contacted urgently by a partner in the Coptic Orthodox
Church this morning with the urgent news that St Anthony's Monastery on the Red
Sea is under siege by the police at this very moment.

Some 200 - 300 police officers equipped with 14 bulldozers have closed and
blockaded the roads outside the monastery, which is situated in a mountainous
region of Egypt's Red Sea coast. Monks from the monastery are protesting
outside the building trying desperately to protect their home. The police
officers were acting on orders from the Red Sea Governorate based in Hurghada.
It would seem that prejudiced Muslim officials who are hostile to the Christian
Church in Egypt are misusing and violating the law to attack this historic
Coptic monastery which dates back to the fourth century.

The crisis has arisen because the local governorate claims the walls of
the monastery have been constructed illegally and has issued the police with
orders to destroy them. However, official permission to construct the walls was
obtained in 1992 and they were built some 4 - 5 years ago. Permission was given
because the monastery had experienced problems with Muslim extremist groups and
it was recognised that a perimeter wall was needed for protection.

FURTHER INFORMATION WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE BY BARNABAS FUND,
ON REQUEST AS WE RECEIVE IT

A bint once discovered the feeling
Of shaving her head. Now she's reeling,
'Cause of statements they make
That she looks like a snake.
She burned her scalp: how un-a-peeling!

(I regret any inconvenience any 'slumming' may cause. Tim's a nice bloke, so I'm sure he doesn't mind...)

Pushing for the hijab was obviously shrewd, think-ahead planning on Mr. Bani-Sadr's part: because when the revolution turned on him and he had to run for his life, he escaped by dressing as a woman. Apparently nobody thought to check under the burqa.

Dear Imam,

Can I use hijab to cover my satar?

Sincerely,

Confused and Curious in Akaba

E.A.

Only if someone's head is in the hijab at the time.