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one of the great lure for martyrdom in Islam - where, in some places, young men are not permitted to talk to women or look at women, is that upon entering paradise they will have 7 houris - virgins - at their beck and call. -- ------------ ------------- ----------- -------------- ------------------- ------------------ Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is a force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. George Washington NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew > From: RevCOAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:33:20 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [CTRL] Islamic Terrorists are Afraid of Women (fwd) > > -Caveat Lector- > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Please copy and distribute to other interested individuals and groups > > ********** > > What Islamic Terrorists are Really Afraid of is Women > by Boris Johnson > > The Daily Telegraph, London > 27 Sept. 2001 > > So we're going in. In the next few days, our boys will be taking on the > Taliban, and we must all pray they succeed. Let them winkle him out of his > cave. Let them blast Osama bin Laden's arms dumps and blitz his followers, > and carpet-bomb the Khyber with pineapple chunks, to appease the civilians, > and then, and then ... er: nobody seems sure what happens then, because > this is a war against terrorism unlike any other. > > We have had our own such war for the past 30 years, and we know that it is > accompanied by a stately hypocrisy. On the one hand, we do our best to > catch them, or sometimes just shoot them. On the other hand, we secretly > talk to them and give them what they want. We invite them first to Cheyne > Walk, in 1973, and eventually to Downing Street. My dear Gerry, my dear > Martin, what would it take to get your lads to stop blowing us up? A > ministerial Rover? Done. The end of the RUC? Say no more. > > The trouble with the war against Islamic fundamentalist terror is that the > terrorists themselves have no interest in talking. Bin Ladin calls on his > followers to kill all infidels. Then, he says, the killers will go to > heaven. There is not much room for negotiation there, not even over tea at > Number 10. We are not only horrified by the actions of the 19 suicide > killers; we are still baffled, two weeks on. > > What is it really all about? What is the true well-spring of this rage? > We have all read that these crazed young men resent America for supporting > Israel; that they believe the sufferings of the Iraqi people are excessive; > that they hate their own corrupt regimes, especially in Saudi Arabia, and > blame America for backing them. None of these geopolitical reasons, I am > afraid, quite does the trick, for me. There must be some deeper offence to > their pride. > > I think it is to do with their sense that they are representatives of a > culture under siege. They fear that American morals and values will take > them over, just as Coca-Cola and McDonald's have conquered the Earth. And > what is the biggest single difference between their culture and Western > culture? That's easy: it's the treatment of women. > > Not all Islamic societies are equally sexist. You may not believe it, but > the Turks gave women the vote before the British did. But listen to the > casual bias of bin Laden's address to "brother Muslims". Look at the wacko > women's gear that the BBC's John Simpson wore when he smuggled himself into > Afghanistan, a sort of blue tent with a letterbox hole for the nose. > > This is a world where women are lashed for adultery; where little girls are > denied education; where female teachers are sacked; and where women are > kept from elementary health care. Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader, says > that mingling men and women is Western and decadent, and leads to > licentiousness. To call these views medieval is an insult to the Middle > Ages. And yet, they are held, with varying intensity, across the Muslim > world. > > In Kuwait, the country for which we fought, they recently decided against > giving women the vote. As one enlightened Kuwaiti MP, Ahmad al-Baqer, put > it: "God said in the holy Koran that men are better than women. Why can't > we settle for that?" The Kuwaiti tribunes later had a debate on the Sydney > Olympics, in which a fruitcake called Waleed al-Tabtabaie called for the > banning of women's beach volleyball, on the grounds that it was "too sexy > and indecent". > > In Kano, Nigeria, the Muslims banned female soccer. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, > women have been banned from working for NGOs. A Malaysian minister > recently announced that any kind of skirt is an invitation to rape. > Iranian magazines may not show unveiled pictures of Monica Lewinsky, or any > other woman who has had sexual relations with President Clinton. The imam > of a mosque in Fuengirola, Spain, one Mohamed Kamal Mostafa, has just > published a handy guide to when you may beat your wife. Only hit the > hands and feet, he says, using a rod that is thin and light. Of course, > it's all grotesque. It's nutty. But these prejudices are so deeply held > by Islamic fundamentalists that they will die to preserve them. > > They look at America, and they see a world full of spookily powerful women, > such as Hillary Clinton. So terrifying have been the advances of Western > feminism that her ludicrous husband can almost be expelled from office for > having a sexual liaison with an intern. The Muslim fanatics see denatured > men, and abortion, and family breakdown, and jezebels who order men around. > It tempts them and appals them and, finally, engrages them. Mohammed Omar > says that "Only ugly and filthy Western cultures allow women to be > insulted and dishonoured as a toy". What he means is that only the West > allows women to be treated as equals. > > Now, there will be plenty of British conservatives who think these Taliban > chappies run a tight ship, women's lib is not an unalloyed blessing, look > at all these poofers these days, and so on. There are even ex-feminists, > such as Germaine Greer, who will take a perverse pleasure in announcing > that women can look very beautiful in a veil. > > These points may or many not be valid, but they are essentially irrelevant. > Female emancipation has been the biggest social revolution since print. In > trying to resist it, the Muslim fanatics are establishing themselves as > doomed cultural Luddites. Let me say what the Left cannot say, since it > chokes on the contradictions of its position, at once feminist, and yet > relativist. > > It is time for concerted cultural imperialism. They are wrong about women. > We are right. We can't have them blowing us up. The deluded fanatics must > be helped to a more generous understanding of the world. Female education > is the answer to the global population problem. It is the ultimate answer > to the problem of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. > > Comments to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ********** > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > ========== > CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic > screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are > sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- > directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with > major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. > That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and > always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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