0 comments on “Moral Equivalency Pt. 1”

1. Seyam says God wants women to wear the hijab, to be modest. So wearing makeup and trimming/plucking her eyebrows is modest in that sense? Muslims create their own credibility problems. Small wonder the rest of the world is growing more cynical toward them.

2. I am a WASP male. Do I look like a crusader or an infidel? The why do members of your religion, in the name of your religion, want to kill or terrorize me and the millions of others who look like me. Admit it Seyam - your religion has been hijacked by thousands of radicals and millions of their tacit supporters and very, very few Muslims will stand up and condemn it or demand it stop. Until Muslims as a religious body undergo a Reformation, your religion will continue to be conflicted and distrusted by the rest of the World. Consider yourself an ambassador for that distrust whether you wear a hijab or a bikini.

3. Doesn't look like a terrorist. Does look like a third-world peasant. That's a judgement of fashion, not of morality.

   Hasidic Jews call attention to themselves by dressing differently, and some Christians wear crucifixes. We're more or less used to these public manifestations of religious belief - they've been around for a while. Hijab is relatively new to America. Maybe we'll get used to it. I agree, however, that given the current state of the world, the hijab does have some unpleasant connotations. Perhaps these are only in the eye of the beholder. Nevertheless, there it is.

4. I have to agree with Bill and Roger. Bill makes an excellent point, a good example is the The Amish, and Menonite religions who also (like the Muslims) give great presidence to modesty. The women of these religions do not wear make up, in fact ... they are very commited to their idea of what is modesty. While I don't adhear to thier interpretation of modesty, I do respect and even admire thier faith because they represent it so well. And also, while they are obviously different than me I don't fear or resent them.
   It's difficult to relate to a muslim woman who feels she is being mistreated because of her beliefs, when it doesn't appear that she follows them.

5. Why is American society expected to accommodate all sorts of antisocial dress and behavior, just because it is claimed as part of someon'e religion? Religion has been used as an excuse for some really cruel behavior, most recently by the Muslims but historically the Christians have tortured, killed and plundered for many centuries so they are not guiltless. It's time to stop giving a free pass to religious intolerance and bizarre religious behavior.

6. The way I look at it, it's fine to believe something, but another to believe in it so much that it results in you being harassed, arrested, or killed. To me, that would be taking it a bit too far.

   For example (since I am not very religious) I live in a town on the west coast of the US that has a lot of hippies in it. My son who is severely disabled attends an Easter Seals Day Camp every August made a Tie Dye T-Shirt for me at the camp one day.

   I'm not really much of a hippie so I don't really go in for tie dye shirts all that much, but what do you say to a child, much less a disabled child, in that situation? "I can't wear that! What will people think?" So I wear the shirt at home and he smiles at me proudly.

   One day we were getting ready to go somewhere and I was wearing the shirt and said I had to change before we left. He had noticed that I never wore the shirt anywhere but at home, so asked me why I wouldn't wear the shirt when we went somewhere and I had to really think hard before I answered him. I certainly didn't want to hurt his feelings.

   So I thought about it for a minute and then said to him "Do you remember when we watched the news and a man said he was not a terrorist because he wore a turban?" He said he remembered that, and I think he sort of understood the situation. So then I said "So do you remember the day the park was full of hippies smoking pot?" Again he said he did. Now he's heard us talk and knows that pot is illegal, and all that. So I explained to him that tie dye shirts make people think you're a hippie who smokes pot, and I didn't want anyone to think that about me, and that is why I don't wear the shirt in public. He said he understood that.

   My the way I look at it, if this Hijab makes people think you're a terrorist, then I say don't wear it. It's better to break one of your traditions that to be harassed, arrested, or killed. Don't you think?

7. I absolutely refuse to believe that some random American broke out in song, in line, at the Wal-Mart, when confronted with the image of another American wearing a hijab, for four reasons,... 1) I see hundreds of Americans wearing the hijab- it's a common form of dress for Muslims in our country and doesn't attract much attention irrespective of where, geographically, it is presented (if it were a burka I would be more suspect), 2) The proclivity of most people to break out in song, in public, in this country is incredibly retarded unless that person was a drama major in high school or mentally ill and either way, this behavior would be quite disconcerting for everyone within earshot and would be immediately discounted as the act of a lunatic, 3) No one, in this country, is going to confront a woman in line at the grocery store, unless she is A) trying to steal something -or- B) physically abusing her kids and, 4) Who the hell can come up with any impromptu phrasing that rhymes with "bin-laden" or "terrorism" within the context of the "12 Days of Christmas?" I consider myself a crusader against the jihad and have reconciled myself to the fact that eventually we are going to have to fight a real shooting war against these radicals, and if I have no problem with Muslim women dressing this way, I have incredible difficulty believing that your average American joe would even notice this woman in front of him in line. Sounds like a made-up story to me...

8. "Seyam posits the modern-day equivalent of the old question: “Who do you believe? Me or your lying eyes?”

   And the motivation behind it?

   Simply put, it's a political statement and a repudiation of everything that our nation stands for, it is the so-called moderate's way of instinctively showing their fraternal support for their violent co-religionists. Inadvertently, Mrs. Rehan Seyam makes it quite clear that the hijab for her is a symbol of Islamic self-assertion and ethnic chauvinism, it is a reactive revolutionary response and a rejection to assimilation and integration. You might notice that many of these displays of Islamic self-assertion and ethnic chauvinism only became popular after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

   continued...

   Exposing God's Muslim Warriors

   Lao

9. I only watched the show about Rehan Seyam, a Muslim living in New Jersey, and I was extremely upset. What a huge display of ignorance about Christians and Americans. Just because she prays five times a day and wears a hijab, she thinks her show of faith is stronger. She even said "Christians only go to church on Sunday. I think about God every day." Well, hello, so do most Christians. In fact, by the show's own statistics, MORE American Christians attend church, read the bible every day, and pray every day than those following Islam in this country go to church, read the Koran, and pray every day. So what, exactly, was her point?

   As far as discrimination, I don't doubt there are a few idiots in the United States that may give her dirty looks or even say something insulting. But you know what? It's highly unlikely she has to worry about a Christian blowing her to Kingdom-come in this country. She has much more to fear from fanatics following her own faith.

   It seemed completely ironic that the show filmed her walking through an American shopping mall, trying to underscore her modesty by wearing her head scarf while walking in front of a Victoria's Secret store, and the narration going on and on ad nauseum about how bad America is and how small-minded we are, and how compared to her and other Muslims, Christians in this country are just so clueless and have so much less faith, etc. Well, it just so happens that it was largely Christians who made this country what it was, who promoted capitalism and free trade and even her right to complain about Americans and practice her faith freely here. Can she say the same for anyone being able to do the same in a country that's founded on Islam?

   This show was, to me, pointless, and will only serve to stir up more intolerance.