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Sexual Apartheid in Muslim societies

Oppose unequal nakedness and indecent exposure laws as a response to Hijab

Muslim society observes double moral standard and unequal nakedness in covering the male and female bodies. Muslim societies suffer from sexual segregation and repression. The most serious sexual problem is not premarital sex or AIDS; it is the failure to accept our children's sexuality and teach them to accept it and enjoy it responsibly.
As we all know that Adam and Eve were created naked. They lived together yet they felt no shame. My mother says I took birth naked, and it was not thought shameful by her.

However, when I grew little older, I was taught that some of my body parts are shameful. I covered the scandalous parts of my body. It was very easy to hide my penis, particularly when there was no erection.

I had a younger sister. She too was taught to cover up shameful parts of her body. It was not difficult for her to hide space between her legs. However, she could not conceal her breasts, and these were becoming more prominent day by day. My sister's anatomy was a big problem for her and a threat to our family honor and a great source of humiliation for all male members of our family.

When my mother was young she too had faced this problem. She had solved the problem by wearing sack like attire called Burqa. However, my sister was told to wear a fashionable letter box type Burqa. That depersonalized her completely, so much so that I could not recognize my sister in the market place.

This had one advantage. Burqa could be used as a camouflage to protect our family honor, not my sister. That was not our concern. It gave my sister anonymity while in market place and saved us, male members of the family, from humiliation and from fighting those who might molest her, we saved our family honor while allowing men, molest her sexually in public places.

When I was a kid, I used to take my penis in my hands, and I liked this activity. However, whenever my mother used to see this, she would scold me saying. It is a dirty thing. When I grew older touching my penis or being naked was totally prohibited. I was astonished why adult members of my family were so terrified by my little monster. I am hiding between my legs. It was considered shame full part of my body.

With the result, I put in dark, there was no one with whom I could talk about sex except my friends who knew nothing. I wanted to see what girls hide between their legs. I wanted to touch that place. However, how can I say so? Because of sexual segregation, there is complete silence and repression on this issue in Muslim society.

There was another problem: a perpetual penis war or more technically phalacrotic war, is going on in Muslim societies.

My parents thought penetrator in the sexual act superior to female partner being penetrated that degrades her socially. In other words, my mother had humiliated herself and her brothers and parents by marrying my father.

Being a male member of my family I was honored as a warrior, a penis Mujahid and my sister was considered as a threat to our social prestige. In the interests of family honor, it was thought necessary to restrict her movements, keep an eye on her activities violating her privacy and covering her whole body from the predatory penis Mujahids.

In fact, Jihad under Mohamad's command was a form of penis war in which fallen enemy's women became the property of the Victor, and this was done in the name of Allah most merciful and by the perfect man, a role model for Muslims.

Islam only knows penetrative sex, animal sex and treating women as a sex object and does not consider sex as a relationship. Sex under Islam is like masturbation as if Muslim men masturbate themselves over their women.

The phallocracy is so strong in Muslim societies that had not f__king our daughters and sister been Haram (prohibited), in order to uphold family honor, we would have never let our sisters and daughters marry to someone else and degrade ourselves.

It is what is happening in Muslim societies where incest is a common practice. If my sister does not accept my sexual advances, I can kill her accusing her of adultery. If she accepts the relationship, she can be killed by other male members of the family, if they come to know about it.

Muslims generally do not f__k their sisters and daughters, but they do not allow them to have a relationship with other men of their choice. Muslim men play the role of pimps as they get the reward for protecting their sisters and daughter's virginity and handing them over to other men through arranged marriage deal. More the age difference between bride and bridegroom, more money they get.

Being a male is a great privilege in a Muslim society. My penis was considered as a weapon for restoring family honor, that is if any one f__ks my sister. I will f__k his sister. This way Muslims f__k their sisters and daughters without violating Sharia law. My mother was proud having given birth to a male child and ashamed of given birth to my sister.

In view of this, my support to muslim women including hijabi sisters is unconditional. I oppose any ban on hijab, covering of women from top to toe. My only grievance is that they do not support my right to walk around naked, free of clothes.
I want indecent exposure laws to be repealed. I consider clothes as an uniform of so-called civilized man who has killed 120 million fellow human being in last six decades. Furthermore, our clothes reveal our social status, cultural identity, nationality, etc. more than our individual self and these are the markers of divisions within humanity based on caste, color and ethnicity. I believe in oneness of humanity and have renounced these symbols along with Islam.

I see Hijab, a piece of cloth similar to an Islamic flag and tall mosque minarets built in Western countries by immigrant Muslim community as a sign post to claim public sphere in the west, like a dog marks his newly won territory with urine (and its smell). It can be also understood as a threat of assimilation, as a response to the dilemma of being same and yet different in western society. our clothes are part of our identity politics and have nothing to do with religion.

I appeal to all of you to:

Oppose unequal nakedness and support letting the women walk bare breasted and allowing breastfeeding a baby in public.

Oppose indecent exposure laws

Support clothes-free beaches, swimming pools, other public places

oppose phallocracy, the belief that penetrator in a sexual act to be superior and carrying social prestige and degrading female partner who was penetrated.

Support dismantling patriarchical social system

M.A.Hussain

deconstructingislamism.com/unequalnakedness.htm
 
 

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