A post by Maynard
This time they’ve gone too far. This is the biggest assault on basic human rights ever.
Hamas bans women’s underwear from shop windows
Prohibition aims to “restore Palestinian morals.”
The Hamas Islamic movement that controls the Gaza Strip has banned shops from displaying women’s underwear in their windows, saying it offends public morality.
The prohibition is intended to “restore public morals in Palestinian society,” according to an e-mailed statement sent Thursday by Hamas police spokesman Ayman Batniji. “The police will also launch investigations into the conduct of the store owners to avoid any suspicious behavior with female customers,” the statement said…
One of the user-posted comments hit the nail on the head:
So let me see if I understand this: Displaying women’s undies in a Gaza store window is immoral, but sending women and children to blow themselves up, launching rockets from hospitals and schools, and squandering billions of welfare dollars on luxury villas for their leaders and weapons while pleading poverty is moral?
Why are these monstrous lunatics the darlings of the Left?
Actually, that article is from two months ago. More recently, a paramilitary raid destroyed a popular water park in Gaza.
Gaza water park burned down after shut down by Hamas
Unidentified gunmen set fire to “Crazy Water” park closed for allowing mixed bathing; witnesses say at least 25 assailants took part.
Unidentified gunmen on Sunday set fire to Crazy Water Park, one of the Gaza Strip’s most popular entertainment sites.
Eyewitnesses said that at least 25 assailants participated in the pre-dawn attack. The gunmen beat the two night watchmen, bound their hands and confiscated their mobile phones before setting the complex on fire, they said.
Oh, yeah, and women in Gaza are denied rights of inheritance. The article describes issues with both land and money.
The Women’s Affairs Center (WAC) study, Women and Inheritance, found 88 percent of those surveyed claimed to have been denied their inheritance. Around two thirds of those interviewed said they would not request aid to restore their legal rights…
…[Diab Zayed, programs officer at the Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development (PWWSD) told The Media Line] that the family of a widow’s late husband would prefer to see inheritance pass to the deceased’s brothers and sons rather than the widow. “Land is very important in the Palestinian community, and they don’t want the land to go to another family if the man dies,” Zayed said. “The [widowed] women might get an amount of money and that’s it.”…
..Palestinian inheritance law follows Islamic law, which stipulates that women are only entitled to half the inheritance amount given to men.
For example, if a father bequeaths $1,000 in inheritance to two daughters and a son, then according to Islamic Law (Sharia), the son will receive $500 and the daughters $250 each.
If a woman is left widowed the inheritance money is by default shared between the children, the husband’s parents and his brothers, and involves a series of calculations dependent on each case’s circumstances.
Many Palestinian women are thus often paid off by other members of the family with a one-off lump sum and are forced to relinquish any rights they have to an estate.
Meanwhile, from Jordan and the West Bank where the “moderates” are in charge, we find this:
The Palestinian Authority on Sunday reaffirmed the death penalty for any Palestinian found guilty of selling land to Israelis… The land law, which was originally put in force by Jordan between 1948 and 1967, carries the death sentence… In 1997, the PA announced that it would seek the death penalty for any Palestinian convicted of selling land to Jews or Israelis, in accordance with the Jordanian “Law for Preventing the Sale of Real Estate to the Enemy.” According to the 1973 legislation, the sale of property to Jews or Israelis constitutes a crime against state security and well-being, punishable by death and the confiscation of the culprit’s possessions.
Tell me again why Israel is endlessly accused or racism and apartheid practices when it’s the only tolerant nation in the entire Middle East?
How can a water park burn down?
So I guess those stores will display naked mannequins in their windows.
Re. Why does the Left support these people over Israel?
There are a lot of different ways this could be interpreted. One is that it’s an economic thing. They buy the whole line that the Israelis stole the land from the Palestinians, and since the Palestinians are obviously poorer and less powerful than the Israelis, the Israelis are at fault for the Palestinian plight. They always sympathize with their designated “victims”, which shift. Jewish people used to get a lot of sympathy from the Left. Now try to find it.
Really what I think it comes down to is what Tammy has talked about: malignant narcissism, “It’s all happening because of me.” Al Qaeda attacked us because of what we did, not anything they did. The Palestinians attack Israel because of what Israel does to them, and by extension our support for the Israelis. It’s all our fault. So by their reasoning we shouldn’t have gone into Afghanistan (I know some on the Left who were saying this immediately after 9/11/01), and we shouldn’t have gone into Iraq after 9/11. We should’ve instead taken a good look at ourselves and tried to see how we caused it. It’s obvious we did, because if we hadn’t they wouldn’t have attacked us. It’s not that they’re more reasonable than us. It’s that they’re less powerful than we are, and by their thinking only a cornered, frightened animal would attack us. Note the dehumanizing nature of this analogy. Some people might think I’m setting up a strawman here, but I think if you talk to Leftists you’ll see this is how they think about it. The idea that a weaker power would want to attack a stronger one for its own ambition is beyond their ability to comprehend. It seems foolish and out of the realm of possibility. So it must be a reactionary response to our brutish abuse of them. That’s the only rational explanation. Oh really? No…other rational explanations come to mind? Hmm?
The real answer to them is for the U.S. to change its foreign policy, and the Israelis to change their security policy to something more benign. The Left assumes that if they pull back, perhaps even leaving altogether to go back to…where did Helen Thomas say? Ah yes, Poland, etc…., sure they’ll receive some well deserved lumps, but eventually the Middle East will become a more peaceful place, and we’ll be able assume the role of humbled and ashamed benefactor to help the world’s poor, which of course we helped to create…all about us, remember.
They personalize the whole situation. You see, the abused victim will lash out, but once the abuser backs away, things will settle down. If we could just heal ourselves, well then we could heal them, too.
From our point of view this scenario sounds nuts. This world view is the result of a mental disease, and in the political and international arena it’s suicidal.
As we can see in the UK, it doesn’t stop even after a country has shrunk in its power. You would think they wouldn’t think of themselves as so high and mighty anymore. The British Empire is long gone, yet I remember after the London bombing that several ordinary people who were interviewed on the street actually expressed sympathy for the terrorists. They are still disarming in a sense (though they are the only country in the region besides Germany with any sort of military power). Within a generation or so the UK will be an Arab country in its ethnicity, and perhaps Islamic politically and culturally, because the British, from what I understand, have succumbed to multicultural, anti-colonial, postmodern thinking, which doesn’t value its own heritage and history.
I think the truth of the matter is we can only understand this diseased thinking up to a point. After that it makes no sense at all.
Yes, I think you get it right: Diseased thinking; a sort of racist megalomania. A perverse update of the old “white man’s burden“. Only the western white man can be held accountable, because only the western white man is fully human. Everyone else’s fate rests upon the whims of the western white man. If the world is full of trouble spots and hellholes, it’s because the western white man willed it to be so. No wonder they’re so angry at us!
Whenever anyone implicitly assumes that the rage of the masses must somehow be justified or else it wouldn’t exist, I raise the question of the Holocaust. Why did (and do) so many people hate the Jews? Why did they hate them so much that they endorsed the solution of genocide? Isn’t it rather obvious that this sort of murderous rage is more likely to illuminate the demons of the mob rather than the shortcomings of their victims?
Christian dogma would have it that when the Son of God came to Earth, we murdered him. This happened, not because Jesus had wronged us, but because of our sinful nature. Whether or not you’re a Christian, it’s a scenario that rings true.
Yes, I’ve been getting this insight lately. This is a tangent, but I think a relevant one. It turns out it matters A LOT what belief system people hold in terms of how people view government’s role in society, and how they view the world. You can explain a lot about the Left’s beliefs and actions by understanding how an atheist views the world. I saw a presentation given by someone (I can’t remember who, now) in an Eagle Forum college event, where the author of a book talked about this. He said the whole idea of redistribution of wealth can be understood if you look at people from a Darwinist’s point of view. If people are just animals, then you can see why the Left wants to redistribute wealth. He said he had been a farmer, and he understood that he had to take straw from the male goats, and give it to the pregnant female goats, because the males would tend to hog the food. In other words, he said, “I had to redistribute wealth,” because the male goats would just naturally not want to share the food, because of their instincts, even though the pregnant females needed it more than they did. It was just a matter of them not having enough awareness to realize that this was so. So the farmer had to do it for them.
What you point out about Christian dogma is a distinction between someone like a John Locke, and someone like a Rousseau. Locke came at the whole issue of people’s relationship with government from the POV of “flawed man”, not just that the common citizen is flawed, but that EVERYONE is flawed, even the people we would put up as leaders. This was the POV that most of the framers of the Constitution had. They wanted to make government inefficient and frustrate its power, because the flawed nature of human beings would inevitably lead to a desire to concentrate power so that human will could be more effectively exercised through it, and this would inevitably lead to tyranny. The conceit of the Left is that they are somehow “more evolved” (really they’d have to believe that they have “grown beyond” the animal state, or else they’d have to apply their own damning regulations to themselves), and that they are the ones to show everyone else the way, or at least manage them for their own good. It seems like they believe that they have this superiority because of their education and/or their “emotional intelligence” which gives them more awareness than most of other people, and enables them to a) fool other people, and b) create relationships that increase their power. Their success validates their beliefs about themselves, and about other people. The flip-side is their success blinds them to their true nature, that with the exception of some extraordinary traits, and some happenstances of life, they’re like everyone else whom they think are “lesser”.
So the Left views itself as the beneficent farmer moving food from the male goat to the female goat so that all may survive and prosper, whereas you observe the Left to be just another greedy male goat, rationalizing its own excessive appetites, and lacking the wisdom or moral high ground to hold a position of absolute coercive power over the other animals.
I saw this article recently in City Journal, called “Policies Based on Illusion”. It expands upon the rhetorical question I asked in my last comment, “So it must be a reactionary response to our brutish abuse of them. That’s the only rational explanation. Oh really? No…other rational explanations come to mind?” The fact that we don’t have another rational explanation leaves us open to mortal danger.
News flash to the left: THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A FUCKING “PALESTINIAN.” Technically, that’s not true: the Joooooooooos ARE the Palestinians. I can’t wait for G-d to weigh in on this, and utterly obliterate that sick cult of death masquerading as a “religion of peace.”
What!?! What!?!…No latest styles in “underwear bombs” being displayed!?! I’m in a state of shock!
it’s what every girl wonders after being gang raped because her family might be christians or after having acid thrown in her face because she showed her ankle in public or as she’s waiting to be plunked in a hole and stoned to death:
are my panties moral enough? did my bra cause my complete moral collapse?
the first line of victims for islamic terror are and always will be muslim females who live in a constant state of terror. a major component of the muslim genocidal hate lusting is misogyny- the agonizing thought that outside their deranged little tyrannies there are sub- human animals like females and jews who do not have to submit to them. they do not want submission to allah/ god. they want everyone to submit to them. they’ve made themselves god, a very angry vicious petty god whose whole point seems to be the attainment of earthly power and wealth and boat loads of child brides to rape.
a saudi prince once insisted that no female air traffic controller in america control his flight to see W. and that no icky girls be present on the tarmac when he landed. and we submitted to it. submitting is agreeing- confirming that it is ok to curtail the rights of certain people. one wonders if he insisted also that no jews be allowed to ‘ control’ his jet, his big huge throbbing jet.
if you try to look up ” human rights violations by Palestine” meaning by the sundry palestinian authorities that are always blowing each other up in the territories formally called Israel / Judeah, all you get are thousands of pages about the alleged crimes by Israel against poor innocent highly moral ‘palestine’. all the major human rights organizations ignore what palestinians do to each other as they tend to completely ignore the muslim state violations against women and non-muslims throughout the globe. and google is down with that mess.
the palestinian sickness is ignored because of decades of the media manipulating the flow of information and basically operating en masse as a PR firm for palestinians verses evil israel. effective propaganda is why palestine gets away with being a Nazi state doing with its citizens what it wishes. brought to you by the stupid ass western media: first the primary and eternal victimhood of muslims, the most moral peaceful and godly people on earth, and then the hope and change of moderate genius and messiah barack obama, surely their two greatest works of reporting fiction into truth since Pravda ,Der Stürmer and Der Angriff put together- perhaps even greater because only fellow Nazis and Commies believed that dreck. the appeal and acceptance of muslim propaganda in rewriting history and in contorted full on projection is universal.
the vast reservoirs of anti-semitism and misogyny even in the ‘free world’ more than help the muslim agenda right along. they would never have got such an entrenched hold on the very manner in which muslim extremism is discussed if there wasn’t a kernel of support, however shrouded, for their basic premises- israel/jews must be destroyed and woman are chattel, less than men. after all, europe was still acting out of these premises in the 20th century even though they are remnants of the dark ages, showing how ingrained such thinking can be.
hitler once opined that if he knew he would become chancellor he would never have published Mein Kampf . i don’t think he needed to worry. the west which prides itself on it’s free democracies never learns from her mistakes and sins of omission- all those blind eyes cast on Anschluss and genocide until it is too late .
is it too late? our president has already symbolically submitted us to Islam and he is still in office.
“Prohibition aims to ‘restore Palestinian morals’.”
Like bombing innocent civilians, hiding explosives in the undergarments of old women and sending them shrouded into crowds and detonating themselves, and don’t forget using women and children as human shields to cover countless atrocities. All in the “name of Allah” of course.