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Colchester, CT. A high school decides to teach an object lesson in “diversity” by having some girls “volunteer” to wear the burqa for a day. They then note (with help from CAIR, natch) the “hateful and abusive” comments directed at her by other students. Why does this whole thing smell staged?
The very worst part of this is that the lesson the school hopes to impart is precisely the opposite of the lesson that should be taught — what the burqa truly represents.
I find it disturbing in the extreme that the heirs to the women who were only forty years ago burning brassieres as instruments of male oppression are now preaching tolerance of a garment whose sole reason for existence is to oppress women. The social movement that decries pornography for the objectification of women celebrates the garment that serves to do nothing more.
An entire portion of our society seems to have fallen prey to the idea that all cultures are precisely alike in value and virtue. The truth behind the nature of the burqa should put the lie to that belief. But for some reason it does not. As though finding any fault with the other is somehow unthinkable. And this is what I do not understand.
When I read about this, the only thing I wanted to do was tear the hood from this brainwashed child’s head and shout the truth of what it represents to her. We believe that women have a right to self-determination. This hood is the product of a culture that believes that women are merely meat. We believe that women have the final say in what happens to their body. This hood is a product of a culture that believes that women’s bodies belong to their fathers or their husbands.
In this country, we get things like the Violence Against Women Act. The burqa is the product of a culture for which that law is heresy. The burqa is the product of a culture that believes that a girl should be killed rather than marry the man of her choosing. That believes a woman ought to be killed if she is raped.
And we want to teach our children to be tolerant of this culture? Well, at least Caitlin already knows how to wear a burqa.
Tags: Politics, Society by Brian Corbino
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