Dun ReaD mY bLoG…

i read the newspaper today…… and i saw a report about this australian muslim cleric commenting about sexual assaults to women..

he said that sexual assaults might not happen if women wore a hijab and stayed at home. He described women who do not dress modestly as "uncovered meat"

This is what he said…. " if you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it… whose fault is it , the cats or the uncovered meat?"  " The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred."

Firstly, referring women as uncovered meat is very wrong. How can anyone refer a human being as a piece of meat.. it’s belittling.. we are reduced from a subject into an object. 

Secondly, does it mean that if all women wore hijab , covered themselves from top to bottom, no one gets rape, molested or harrassed???  it’s wrong to push the society’s problem to women. it seems that he is not aware it’s MEN preception of women that is causing the problem. If men had respected women, he wouldn’t have rape her . to the rapist, maybe women is merely a sex doll … Why didn’t he say that the fault is on himself because he didnt do his part in incalculating the right values into his believers and other non believers and thus leading these rape cases?  i believe he himself does not respect women at all.

Thirdly, he used cats as a metaphor to the rapists. Cats do not have the ability to think as a man can. Cat is an animal you cannot expect to tell it to respect other sex and tell him the correct value. When a  male cat forces himself on another cat, we take it as nothing and says it’s the natural cycle… nothing wrong .. By using cat as a reference, does it mean that we take it as that the rapist doesnt not have the ability to do higher order thinking and hence forgive him about the rape?

Next, by saying that the women should wear hijab and stay in the ROOM is another totally wrong remark… imagine i ask you to cover yourself from top to bottom and DON’T go out .. what will you feel ??? …. Women have suffered so much before we gain the level of equility we have now.. How can he negate the achievements of working ladies and say that we should stay in home ??? As society progress, religious thinking should progress too…  People seem to enjoying themselves when they are able to oppress and belittle someone else.      maybe somewhere in the religious teachings said that women should take care of their home and their children, blah blah blah..  i believe, somewhere else also says that men should not abuse or rape women.. Why is it that he condemned women and not the rapists???

Finally if you say that both the cat and the meat is not in the wrong. The one who took the meat out is the problem . i should slap you left right and center..  do you mean that the husbands , father or the family members are in the wrong . they should keep the girl all wrapped up at home ???

The message that the cleric is sending is that,

" ALL WOMEN WHO DON’T COVER THEMSELVES THROUGHOUTLY AND STAY AT HOME SHOULD BE RAPE !!!!!!!  ORBI !!! "

what he say is so insensitive.. He did not spare any thought to the rape victims. You would be angry if i force shit into your mouth ( provided you dun enjoy shit ) what’s more if someone force himself on you and having an enjoyable time during the intercourse while you are suffering and unable to retalliate. Imagine a third party tells alot of ppl you deserve the shit cos you didnt cover your face with a mask. How will you feel …

some ppl may feel that he should be rape himself so that he understand the whole matter. i wouldnt agree. what we hate, we shouldnt ask someone else to encounter it to..  己所不欲，勿斯余人。。。 (dunno whether what i write is the correct words anot)…

he only got a 3-month preaching ban…. and he still has supporters… OMG …. what are they thinking ???

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