Submitted by Anonyme (not verified) on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 10:20.
I think arresting women for not covering their heads is outrageous... and this kind of mentality is exported to the west as well, where islamists in western societies raise their sons to beleive that whatever woman is uncovered is a whore. I live in a western society in a western city, where actually 51% of the population is moslem. Being a western woman, I am sick and tired and very angry with constantly being harassed on the street by teenage moslem boys, who think they have a right to call me names because I am not wearing a headscarf. And it not only verbal harrassement: the other day I was passing through a neighborhood that is characteristically islamic - you see the women covered from head to toe - and a 14-15 yr old boy grabbed my private parts and blocked my way calling me names like whore and asking me how much it is, while his pals were laughing and jeering. I had to push them violently in order to run away, while shouting at some older men to come and dicipline the boys. No one moved and no one interfeered. There are different examples as well, for example men forbidding me to talk to their covered wives while we are shopping, and pulling their wife away from me. Whenever I mention my outrage with these incidencies, I get the reply 'well, you shouldn't go to their neighborhoods'. This is an appeal to everyone to start discussing this taboo issue of islamic morals harassing western women in western socities! We have to start talking about how much it bothers us, in order to get it to stop!
I think arresting women for
I think arresting women for not covering their heads is outrageous... and this kind of mentality is exported to the west as well, where islamists in western societies raise their sons to beleive that whatever woman is uncovered is a whore. I live in a western society in a western city, where actually 51% of the population is moslem. Being a western woman, I am sick and tired and very angry with constantly being harassed on the street by teenage moslem boys, who think they have a right to call me names because I am not wearing a headscarf. And it not only verbal harrassement: the other day I was passing through a neighborhood that is characteristically islamic - you see the women covered from head to toe - and a 14-15 yr old boy grabbed my private parts and blocked my way calling me names like whore and asking me how much it is, while his pals were laughing and jeering. I had to push them violently in order to run away, while shouting at some older men to come and dicipline the boys. No one moved and no one interfeered. There are different examples as well, for example men forbidding me to talk to their covered wives while we are shopping, and pulling their wife away from me. Whenever I mention my outrage with these incidencies, I get the reply 'well, you shouldn't go to their neighborhoods'. This is an appeal to everyone to start discussing this taboo issue of islamic morals harassing western women in western socities! We have to start talking about how much it bothers us, in order to get it to stop!