[GJM] STRAW'S VEIL OF DECEIT...A STORM IN A TEACUP.

[robert searle]

Dear Mu, and Co,


            This veil controversy is making a mountain
out of molehill, and a sad reflection yet again about
our society for Muslim, and Non-Muslim.



As far as I understand it....




i) The Koran does NOT insist upon the veil, and more
importantly there is NO clear detailed reference about
it. 


ii) The use of the veil is a cultural rather than a
religious phenomena. It is certainly not compulsory.


iii) In desert regions it has a practical value for
BOTH men, and woman as it can help protect the visage
from the elements.


iv) Most Muslim women do not wear a veil, and this
does NOT go against the Koran. In genuine Islam, men,
and women are seen as equals but they have different
roles in life. However, in certain Muslim countries
the female is treated as being inferior. This is
contrary to Islam.


v)The notion that seeing a womans face without
covering can inflame passion is absurd.In many
respects, it can be seen as an insult to men as it
implies that he has little, or no control over his
sexual desires either in thought, or deed. 


I think we need to draw a veil over this matter.



               WINDSOR.

I live in Slough which is very close to Windsor, and
is in walking distance. I first found out about the
so-called "hate riots" at the dairy in the Evening
Standard which made the subject front page news.
Again, this seems to have been blown out of all
proportion, and is not as serious as we might like to
imagine. Furthermore, it has nothing to do with the
Queen allowing one of her workers to do Islamic
prayers in a special room at Windsor Castle (the first
time this has happened).

It has to be understood too that the above events
occured in Dedworth which is the poorer "quarter" of
Windsor which has a large number of working class
people. It is not Royal Windsor proper where ofcourse
you get the usual middle class, and higher class
snobs, and their ilke.



Robert Searle





--- Muhammad Mukhtar Alam <mukhtaralam2000 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I hope Straw realises that poor state of Islam is
> not good for national and global health..In
> submission to the commands of the Lord of all
> universes and Earth (Islam) we succeed temporally
> and eternally..In rebellion we lose. Attacks on
> Muslims is a sin. Attack on innocents is a sin.
> There are commands in the Holy texts..
> 
> Yaseen <myaseen at mail.globalvision2000.com> wrote: 
> STRAW'S VEIL OF DECEIT
> 
> It wasn't only Jack Straw who was stirring-up
> communal strife yesterday.
> 
> On the 7 o'clock Channel Four News, while covering
> the event, the 
> reporter Alex Thomson mentioned a Muslim-run dairy
> in Windsor which has 
> been subject to racial attacks.
> 
> He concluded his report by saying, "The fact that a
> small industrial 
> plant in a largely prosperous town in the Home
> Counties can ignite such 
> tension tells us much about Islam in Britain today."
> 
> Can you imagine the furore there would have been if
> he had said that the 
> attacks on the factory "tell us much about Judaism
> in Britain today"?
> 
> (You can see a video replay of the newscast on the
> C4 News page 
> entitled, 'Troubled Veils', 
>
http://www.channel4.com/news/index....=globalnav:NEWS
> )
> 
> I emailed him to complain about the manner in which
> an Islamophobic 
> attack had been projected as a problem about Islam.
> Why didn't he make 
> the rather more obvious connection between the
> attack and the growing 
> wave of racism, xenophobia and cultural intolerance
> affecting whites in 
> Britain today?
> 
> He replied, denying what he had said, trying to
> suggest that it was I 
> who was prejudiced.
> 
> Fortunately, I have his statement word-for-word from
> the video replay 
> and clearly Thomson is lying. This is not the first
> time that I have 
> picked him up for making seriously misleading
> comments about Islam and I 
> have now sent a copy of my complaint to various
> media-monitoring 
> organisations. I also intend to report him to the
> European Union for a 
> breach of human rights.
> 
> The effects of 'dumbing-down' has led to
> not-very-intelligent reporters 
> like Thomson being given major newscasting roles. He
> may be dumb but 
> he's sly as hell and a liability to race relations
> in this country.
> 
> *ISLAMOPHOBIA WATCH* has now published my complaint
> saying, "Reporting 
> for Channel 4 News, Alex Thomson stated: /"The fact
> that a small 
> industrial plant in a largely prosperous town in the
> Home Counties can 
> ignite such tension tells us much about Islam in
> Britain today."/ A more 
> appropriate comment, surely, would be that it tells
> us much about 
> anti-Muslim bigotry in Britain today." ('Petrol bomb
> attack on Muslim 
> dairy,'
>
http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/i...slim-dairy.html
> )
> 
> I urge everyone who reads this to listen to the
> newscast and make their 
> own complaints to Jim Gray, C4 News Editor at
> jim.gray at itn.co.uk 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>
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