This Week In Fuckery:

brashblacknonbeliever:

Welcome to another installment of This Week In Fuckery! Today we will be recapping the week of October 5th through the 11th. If you missed any of the previous installments, you can go here to check those out. Trigger warnings for rape, rape culture, racism, transphobia, Islamophobia, and hate crimes in the links. Let’s get this depressing show on the road.


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feministdisney: “The public discourse among non-Muslims regarding the Muslim community tends to be shaped by stereotypes, possibly most powerfully when the conversation turns to Muslim women — they are hounded, we tend to think, and quite possibly cowering. The very real problems with which Muslim women grapple appear rooted in the nature of the religion, and, we assume, are thus powerfully immune to real change. By way of counterargument, Paradise Beneath Her Feet presents an engrossing, seemingly counter-intuitive take on the question of women’s advancement in the Muslim world, showing that Islamic feminists are successfully arguing – from within the texts and traditions of their faith – that gross gender inequality flies in the face not just of the spirit of Islam, but also its laws,” she said, quoting an article on Feministe.   “So take note.   If I want to choose to wear the hijab- respect my choice.” Yeah, a lot of the time “Western” (in quotes because the bias also applies against Muslim Americans who are not, by definition, Eastern) feminists pretty much need to shut up and back off.
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feministdisney:

“The public discourse among non-Muslims regarding the Muslim community tends to be shaped by stereotypes, possibly most powerfully when the conversation turns to Muslim women — they are hounded, we tend to think, and quite possibly cowering. The very real problems with which Muslim women grapple appear rooted in the nature of the religion, and, we assume, are thus powerfully immune to real change.

By way of counterargument, Paradise Beneath Her Feet presents an engrossing, seemingly counter-intuitive take on the question of women’s advancement in the Muslim world, showing that Islamic feminists are successfully arguing – from within the texts and traditions of their faith – that gross gender inequality flies in the face not just of the spirit of Islam, but also its laws,”

she said, quoting an article on Feministe.   “So take note.   If I want to choose to wear the hijab- respect my choice.”

Yeah, a lot of the time “Western” (in quotes because the bias also applies against Muslim Americans who are not, by definition, Eastern) feminists pretty much need to shut up and back off.

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zikrayat: farhaaan: This is Rachid Nekkaz, the French businessman who announced he will pay all fines for women who are charged with wearing the niqab — not just in France but “in whatever country in the world that bans women from doing so”.  The niqab is a filmy cloth attached to the headscarf that covers all but the eyes. Any woman found to be wearing the niqab in France in public can be fined upto €150 ($200) and ordered to attend ‘re-education classes’. Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland all have — or are planning — similar legislation. The businessman has already paid fines for women in both France and Belgium where wearing the piece of cloth is outlawed. He said:  I’m in favour of a law to convict a husband who forces a women to wear the niqab and who forces her to stay at home. But I’m also for a law that lets these women move freely in the streets, because freedom of movement, just like any freedom, is the most fundamental thing in a democracy.   He is pictured above with Kenza Drider, the longshot “freedom candidate” for French presidency, after accompanying her to a police tribunal in Paris where she appeared for violating France’s niqab ban. Drider told The Associated Press in an interview:  When a woman wants to maintain her freedom, she must be bold. I have the ambition today to serve all women who are the object of stigmatization or social, economic or political discrimination. It is important that we show that we are here, we are French citizens and that we, as well, can bring solutions to French citizens. Nekkaz put up a €2m ($2.5m) property to fund his campaign.  Photo credit: Getty Ball so hard motherfuckers wanna fine me Both of these GQMFs are awesome.
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zikrayat:

farhaaan:

This is Rachid Nekkaz, the French businessman who announced he will pay all fines for women who are charged with wearing the niqab — not just in France but “in whatever country in the world that bans women from doing so”. 

The niqab is a filmy cloth attached to the headscarf that covers all but the eyes. Any woman found to be wearing the niqab in France in public can be fined upto €150 ($200) and ordered to attend ‘re-education classes’. Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland all have — or are planning — similar legislation.

The businessman has already paid fines for women in both France and Belgium where wearing the piece of cloth is outlawed. He said: 

I’m in favour of a law to convict a husband who forces a women to wear the niqab and who forces her to stay at home. But I’m also for a law that lets these women move freely in the streets, because freedom of movement, just like any freedom, is the most fundamental thing in a democracy. 

 He is pictured above with Kenza Drider, the longshot “freedom candidate” for French presidency, after accompanying her to a police tribunal in Paris where she appeared for violating France’s niqab ban. Drider told The Associated Press in an interview: 

When a woman wants to maintain her freedom, she must be bold. I have the ambition today to serve all women who are the object of stigmatization or social, economic or political discrimination. It is important that we show that we are here, we are French citizens and that we, as well, can bring solutions to French citizens.

Nekkaz put up a €2m ($2.5m) property to fund his campaign. 

Photo credit: Getty

Ball so hard motherfuckers wanna fine me

Both of these GQMFs are awesome.

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nova-bright: zikrayat: whenbutterflyes: When I was six-years-old, I used to play ‘tag’ in the playground and pretend I was flying on the swings. These girls don’t get to play on the swings, in fact, they don’t get to play at all. What they do is get married to 60-year-old men. Soon they won’t be playing mommy… They’ll be mommies. -Link- ^ This photo is bullshit! As is the custom in Gaza, children who attend the celebration dress in white and black to match the bride and groom outfits. This is a custom one finds throughout the world, not only in the many Asian cultures, but even in the United States. Ring bearers and flower girls are a common fixture at Christian weddings.  This is just anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic. Try and do a little background research. Also, it’s not hard to tell this photo is not about Saudi Arabia (the article is), and instead is located in Palestine. FURTHERMORE this article is also pretty sketchy because it paints a picture of one VERY SMALL TRIBAL TOWN. Google the town, and you’ll only get results for this article, proving how small it is. Saudi Arabia has a long way to go but let’s have a little objectivity in this article okay? All one has to do is google “Palestine child bride photo” and you can figure out this is false. http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/masswedding.asp Reblogging that commentary. Wow, what bullshit! Yeah, that’s incredibly racist and unresearched. And like the commenter notes, child dresses are made to echo Christian/American wedding dresses in this country all the time; in fact when I was planning my wedding I noticed that many flower girl dresses are EXACT DUPLICATES of bridal patterns, this happens here as well, it’s just a trend. No one is marrying off children in this photo. That is not to say that child marriage does not exist or does not have the potential to be harmful, but that before you go around spreading Islamophobic stereotypes all over Tumblr and in newspapers, check your sources. This photo isn’t even from the same country you’re speaking about, for crying out loud.
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nova-bright:

zikrayat:

whenbutterflyes:

When I was six-years-old, I used to play ‘tag’ in the playground and pretend I was flying on the swings. These girls don’t get to play on the swings, in fact, they don’t get to play at all. What they do is get married to 60-year-old men. Soon they won’t be playing mommy… They’ll be mommies.

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^ This photo is bullshit!

As is the custom in Gaza, children who attend the celebration dress in white and black to match the bride and groom outfits. This is a custom one finds throughout the world, not only in the many Asian cultures, but even in the United States. Ring bearers and flower girls are a common fixture at Christian weddings. 

This is just anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic. Try and do a little background research. Also, it’s not hard to tell this photo is not about Saudi Arabia (the article is), and instead is located in Palestine.

FURTHERMORE this article is also pretty sketchy because it paints a picture of one VERY SMALL TRIBAL TOWN. Google the town, and you’ll only get results for this article, proving how small it is. Saudi Arabia has a long way to go but let’s have a little objectivity in this article okay?

All one has to do is google “Palestine child bride photo” and you can figure out this is false.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/masswedding.asp

Reblogging that commentary.

Wow, what bullshit! Yeah, that’s incredibly racist and unresearched. And like the commenter notes, child dresses are made to echo Christian/American wedding dresses in this country all the time; in fact when I was planning my wedding I noticed that many flower girl dresses are EXACT DUPLICATES of bridal patterns, this happens here as well, it’s just a trend. No one is marrying off children in this photo.

That is not to say that child marriage does not exist or does not have the potential to be harmful, but that before you go around spreading Islamophobic stereotypes all over Tumblr and in newspapers, check your sources. This photo isn’t even from the same country you’re speaking about, for crying out loud.

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All-American Muslim: Too Dangerous for TV Advertising, Apparently

TLC has a new reality show running called All-American Muslim, following the lives of several Muslim households in Dearborn, Michigan. The critical response has mostly pointed out how bland and ordinary it is; gosh, Muslim families really are just like everyone else! In an era where reality shows are mostly about flashy displays of wealth and power, following average, ordinary families is kind of groundbreaking:

In fact, most of the show’s stars seem to have been cast for their exemplary civic and cultural pride. In their bios on TLC’s Web site, the characters’ families are called “prominent” in Dearborn, or “pillars” — old-fashioned words that seek to describe what’s at stake here. In the Jaafar family, husband and father Mike is a deputy sheriff; wife and mother Angela is a consultant; they juggle a busy life raising four young kids. Within five minutes of meeting them, you want to be them. (source)

TLC assumes that many viewers are probably ignorant about Islam and the lives of Muslim families, in a country where Islam has been cast as a demon and Muslims are figures of terror. As such, the show heavily stresses the prosaic and ordinary lives of the families involved. Few positive depictions of Muslims can be found in pop culture, let alone reality television, and so this one sticks out.

Apparently, it stuck out too much, because the Florida Family Association issued a demand for advertisers to pull their support from the show, arguing that:

All-American Muslim is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law…The show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to the liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish.

Again, another article that you should read all of. What. The. Hell. The sad part is that advertisers are actually complying with this bullshit.

Possible trigger warning for (non-violent but still pervasive) Islamophobia? thedailywhat: This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A Muslim woman has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Southwest Airlines for allegedly removing her from a San Jose-bound flight after she told a Verizon representative on the phone “I’ve got to go.” Huh? Read on: Irum Abbassi, who was “readily identifiable as Muslim by what she wore,” wrote in her complaint that a flight attendant thought she heard her say “it’s a go,” and called security to escort Abbassi off the plane. Once deplaned, a TSA agent quickly determined that Abbassi did not pose a risk and allowed her to re-board. Except that she couldn’t: The captain reportedly barred her re-entry, claiming crew members were “uncomfortable” with her presence. Abbassi is suing for punitive damages. [tpm.] Seriously, Southwest, get your shit together, you can’t just kick people off every week for making various people uncomfortable.
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Possible trigger warning for (non-violent but still pervasive) Islamophobia?

thedailywhat:

This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A Muslim woman has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Southwest Airlines for allegedly removing her from a San Jose-bound flight after she told a Verizon representative on the phone “I’ve got to go.”

Huh? Read on:

Irum Abbassi, who was “readily identifiable as Muslim by what she wore,” wrote in her complaint that a flight attendant thought she heard her say “it’s a go,” and called security to escort Abbassi off the plane.

Once deplaned, a TSA agent quickly determined that Abbassi did not pose a risk and allowed her to re-board. Except that she couldn’t: The captain reportedly barred her re-entry, claiming crew members were “uncomfortable” with her presence.

Abbassi is suing for punitive damages.

[tpm.]

Seriously, Southwest, get your shit together, you can’t just kick people off every week for making various people uncomfortable.

I feel that I now know what Jewish women went through before the Nazi roundups in France. When they went out in the street they were identified, singled out, they were vilified. Now that’s happening to us.

Kenza Drider, a 32-year-old mother of three, was famously bold enough to appear on French television to oppose the law before it came into force. She refuses to take off her niqab – “My husband doesn’t dictate what I do, much less the government” – but she says she now lives in fear of attack. “I still go out in my car, on foot, to the shops, to collect my kids. I’m insulted about three to four times a day,” she says. Most say, “Go home”; some say, “We’ll kill you.” One said: “We’ll do to you what we did to the Jews.” In the worst attack, before the law came in, a man tried to run her down in his car.

Since France introduced its burqa ban in April there have been violent attacks on women wearing the niqab and, this week, the first fines could be handed down. But a legal challenge to this hard line may yet expose the French state as a laughing stock.(source)

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