PKKH Exclusvie | by Dr A A Siddique
“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese” – Chris Rock
Adding another line to that quote, I’d say - when women get so desperate to reveal their skin that they go on a crazy rampage; revealing their bare chests to the world, in order to prove a point. Ironically, this blatant display of nudity, that caused the TV Channels to go PG-13, failed to make the necessary mark. Is the world really going so off-tilt that a piece of covering cloth becomes an oppression, so much so that a woman decides to tear it off and walk around the streets in this utterly ignorant manner? Is this what the Women Rights Activist Group Femen is looking for?
Rights for a woman, (or a man for that matter) to go nude openly, is like asking to urinate in public. Hell yeah! It is a right and a necessity and morals should have nothing to do with it. So the woman who brought up this issue, Amina Tyler, is now the new comrade in this army of crazy headed women; less concerned about violence on women and more desperate to show the world their perfect bodies.
What better to hit it where it hurts the most, this remarkable fanatic of a woman belongs to Tunisia, the country that has just seen an Islamic revolution two years ago? If oppression has to be named, it is when the liberal regime under Zainedin Ben Ali called for a ban over Hijab in the Islamic country, causing thousands of young Tunisian protesters to march out in response and overthrow his government.
Amina Tyler, a young Tunisian woman, decided to call for her rights to reveal her skin, and this was brought about by posting her topless pictures on facebook, with obscenities written across her chest and stomach; that her body is not the source of anyone’s honor. Well, sure, but does it really ask for something so graphic? Why go topless to prove your point? The main reason was to hit the Salafists and rightly so, the expected response was immediate when she was declared to have caused an epidemic and hence, sentenced to be stoned.
Ever since her images spread like a virus across the virtual forest, Amina Tyler has been missing. To add fuel, these women’s rights activists continue with the oppressed theme and declare her to be in trouble. As a reaction they called for a “Topless-Jihad Day” on the 4th of April, asking women all over the world to go topless in front of the Tunisian embassies.
This crazy episode has unfortunately hit the image of Islam again, when a bunch of retarded women, who call themselves muslim, ended up defaming, not only their own religion, but women across the world. Dignity has hit rock-bottom along with morals, and suddenly we seem to be living in a jungle with monkeys swinging about in trees.
And this comes as a wake-up call for us as Muslims, when the pre-Islamic age is full of stories of Nations being wiped off the face of the earth in the form of calamities brought about with Allah’s Wrath. What triggered it was not just Kufr, but vulgarity.
It is time we understood the simple fact that nudity can never bring liberation against oppression, and if truth be told, the real oppressor is, in reality, Amina Tyler ; who is responsible for turning the dignified icon of a woman into a third-class show that has nothing to do with misogyny.
Dr. Aaminah Siddique, pharmacist/ freelance writer; interests: religion/human psychology; blogs at The Dead Poets Sanctuary