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skip to main | skip to sidebar home posts rss public pgp key about me simon dobson's occasional musings, invectives and miscellaneous nonsense sexism and islam by simon dobson on wednesday, 30 may 2018 / we often hear muslims of both sexes parroting that muslim women are treated equally, and i have commented before about how this is at odds with much of what we see. it really does appear to be a veneer of disingenuous obfuscation. but sometimes the façade slips, and we see the true prejudices unmasked and undiluted. last month the hudson islamic centre in upstate new york had a high-profile ground breaking ceremony for a new mosque after years of praying in a basement. local dignitaries were invited, speeches made, and the project unveiled. the entire community of mostly first-generation bangladeshis had been invited. unless you were female. one of the local muslim women, jabin ahmed ruhii, was frustrated enough to expose the farcical situation on social media, and a storm blew up. the president of the islamic centre, abdul hannan, said that no discrimination is allowed in their mosque or religious ceremonies. are you ready for what he said next? he explained with no hint of embarrassment that the lack of women at the ceremony was due to a lack of space. that’s right – if there is limited space then all men come before all women. to him that is not discrimination. many will not have read the quran and, again, may have heard muslims claiming that it beseeches equitable treatment for women. that is so far from the truth to be called a deliberate and intentionally deceitful lie. there is whole chapter (surah 4) on women and i encourage you to read it. here are some highlights: if you decide to exchange one wife for another, then you should not try to reclaim any gifts from the first wife. [because presumably you might be tempted to.] if by chance you haven’t had sex with one of your women, then it is okay to have sex with her daughters by another man. [presumably at any age.] you must not have sex with a married woman unless she is a slave. [words fail me.] but just in case you are still in doubt, verse 34 says “men are in charge of women, because allah hath made the one of them to excel the other”. it goes on to say that a woman should be obedient and that a man should beat her if he is worried about even the possibility of disobedience. this is the book regarded by believers as profoundly holy and irrefutable, and claimed to be the basis for their morals. and no, i am not twisting it or quoting out of context or mistranslating from the arabic. i leave that to others. i am giving you the plain meaning, free from conceits; the meaning accepted by islamic clerics and adherents. (the muslim scholar laleh bakhtiar has translated the quran and bowdlerized out everything that betrays its true barbaric nature. she has removed derogatory references to christians and jews, and dishonestly emasculated the reference to beating women.) sexism isn’t confined to muslim communities, but they do seem particularly prone to extreme forms of it. and there is no doubt that these obnoxious views are to many, validated by their religion and by the quran. terrorism and religion by simon dobson on tuesday, 20 june 2017 / after the attack on muslims in london, i must say something. clearly islam is not incidental to the islamic extremism of the perpetrators. it is not like blaming coffee because they all imbibed it. the jihadists make it explicit that they act in the name of allah. they almost always invoke allah’s name at the scene of the mass murder. they give their life in the professed conviction that they will be rewarded for doing allah’s will. nobody can be left in any doubt that the atrocities are carried out by muslims in the name of islam against everything the culprits regard as un-islamic, which includes christianity, western culture, people in the wrong islamic denomination, and those in the right denomination who aren’t islamic enough. the all-consuming question must be whether their religion is to blame for these crimes against humanity. i’m no expert on the socio-political backdrop for islamic grievances, but i’m prepared to accept that muslims have suffered much injustice in living memory, just as jews have. and just as many continue to suffer in the us for the colour of their skin. it should be no surprise if some harbour hatred, as counterproductive as that is, and want to punish the perceived enemy. so that question boils down to whether islam is the critical ingredient that turns hatred born of justifiable grievance, into monstrous attacks on civilization itself. my answer is, “nearly right”. i don’t know if there is something singular to islam that is more likely than other religions to cause grotesque hatred, likely to boil over into extreme violence. but one thing i am sure of: being religious itself is a significant risk factor in turning animosity into violent fanaticism. hold on, you say. why then don’t we see atrocities committed by jews? the answer can be found in amnesty international’s 2016/17 report on the occupied palestinian territories (opt). it begins: israeli forces unlawfully killed palestinian civilians, including children, in both israel and the opt, and detained thousands of palestinians from the opt who opposed israel’s continuing military occupation, holding hundreds in administrative detention. torture and other ill-treatment of detainees remained rife and was committed with impunity. that’s right, the answer is that jewish israelis are regularly performing acts that in northern europe we find barbaric. and critically, it is religion that enables these outrages to be rationalized. religion can act as a powerful catalyst to turn people who perceive injustice into hateful monsters. law-abiding muslims and non-muslims alike repeat ad-nauseam that the jihadists are not following islam, but a distorted version of it. well what do you expect? you teach people from birth that they don’t need to think rationally, but simply have faith in their beliefs. that they can’t go wrong if they believe in their god. that god is on their side. all religions teach young people these things. it is no surprise that some believers end up thinking that their faith justifies anything they do. it isn’t islam that is the problem – it is religion in general. if there really is a sense in which islamic adherents are more likely to become radicalized, then no doubt it is because they get indoctrinated more thoroughly in the idea of irrational belief. i don’t know if that is cultural or inherent in the faith. it follows that the problem isn’t really which specific religious nonsense people believe, just that they get taught to believe. nevertheless, i want to address another oft-repeated claim. muslims often assert that jihadist’s actions are contrary to the koran. the truth is that no major religions follow their holy book. the christian bible is an embarrassment to protestants. they hardly read it at all, and are spoon-fed a very small carefully selected corpus of acceptable texts consistent with their modern reinterpretation. jews don’t even try to claim the torah as inviable, but base doctrine partly on religious philosophy. catholics believe the church if what it says is at odds with the bible, as with the second of the ten commandments. much islamic practice is based in teaching and culture, not in the koran. just because someone does something contrary to the koran, or fails to do something it prescribes, hardly makes them un-islamic. there wouldn’t be many muslims left by that filter. it does seem as though being religious predisposes people to accept anything no matter how contrary to the evidence in front their eyes. last night’s assault against peaceful innocent muslims was absolutely appalling. the attack was declared a terrorist incident within eight minutes of the first emergency call and all the reports on bbc tv and on their website describe it as such. yet i saw interviews with local muslims complaining that the media coverage had downplayed the events and failed to call it terrorism. it is almost as though they wanted to believe that they were being unfairly treated by the establishment, and the truth wasn’t going to get in the way of that desire. just like religious beliefs. let’s talk about islamophobia. one bee in my bonnet is gender inequality. people often point to the restrictive way muslim women are treated within uk communities compared to the relative freedom enjoyed by other women. it does anger me. but is islam any more culpable than other religions? hardly! the other major religions have been just as bad, and continue to practise and espouse inequality. women’s limited emancipation in the uk has been opposed at every turn by the established church and is still resisted by many devotees. all the gains have been made through a secular liberal consensus. the reason many muslim women are yet to benefit is cultural. most uk muslim communities are relatively new to the country. census data shows their population increasing fiftyfold in fifty years, and they come from cultures that have seen little change in the position of women. it isn’t acceptable, but blaming islam lacks perspective. incidentally, i often hear muslims claiming that muslim women are treated equally. i could just repeat what i said earlier about religion predisposing people to nonsense, but let me give just one example. if you heard about a group of people hanging around after celebrating midnight mass on christmas eve, you would be very surprised if they were all men. but as far as i could make out, there were no women hanging around when muslims were viciously mown down in london after evening prayers at the end of their ramadan fast. none of the people i saw in any of the reports were muslim women, neither during the attack nor afterwards. none of the muslims interviewed near the scene was a woman. none of the community leaders nor representatives interviewed later were women. even worse, we are so inured to the invisibility of muslim women that we don’t notice it and nobody bothers to mention it. here is another worrying aspect. we are often told there is no significant support for jihadist extremism within muslim communities. that although the perpetrators of the awful acts do come from these communities, extremism has no foothold. we want to believe it, because we hope that people are basically decent. we are also told that although some of the terrorists were reported to the authorities by their own communities, the intelligence could not be processed because of the sheer volume of people reported. i’m sorry, but those two things don’t add up. either the security services are telling porkies, or there is significant support for holy war. in the us it is a constitutional right to believe your own brand of unjustifiable gibberish. surely humanity can move away from that. can’t we start by agreeing to ban religious indoctrinate of children and allow people to take up religion as adults if they want? my shoes are in a drawer by simon dobson on friday, 16 june 2017 / a few years ago we got a new kitchen. (use google if you don’t understand how that is possible.) we knocked the old one through to a room we hardly used, and spent more than many people’s yearly salary having everything gutted and replaced. despite the additional space, we ended up with less storage than we started with. and so ensued a year of not knowing where anything was, because barbara would frequently reorganize everything she hadn’t been forced to throw away, in an attempt to fit it in. last year we decided to replace our bedroom carpet. apparently, it wasn’t worth doing it without having the cupboards replaced, the walls re-plastered and redecorated, the bed replaced, the chests of drawers replaced, the curtains replaced, and doing much the same in another room as well. as before, it took a whole year and we ended up with less storage than we started with. and as before, there then ensued a prolonged period of not knowing where anything was, because barbara frequently reorganized everything left from her new round of throwing things away, in the new round of trying to fit stuff in. this time it was doubly frustrating because she often couldn’t remember what she’d chucked. eventually i got her to understand that she must tell me when she moves something i obviously need to know about. but on the very first occasion that she remembered, i was left dumbfounded. my shoes are in a drawer! sorry, does not compute. my shoes are in a drawer? an ordinary drawer? to try to process this, i intone it. “my shoes are in a drawer.” i’m thinking of having it tattooed on my arm. open letter to all christians by simon dobson on tuesday, 6 june 2017 / imagine for a moment, if i could really prove that islam was completely and utterly baseless. that the koran is a deceitful fabrication. that islamic beliefs are nothing more than misapplied ancient superstitions. that cultural adherence is the primary basis for many evil traditional social practices. that individual adherence damages one’s capacity for rational thought, and is a risk factor for developing hatred and extremism. that allah is an absolute fiction corresponding to nothing that has ever existed or ever will exist. and suppose i could prove these things with an overwhelming level of certainty akin to pythagoras’ theorem. and suppose i could demonstrate it all so convincingly that you acquire an inner instinctive understanding of its veracity akin to our knowledge of gravity. in the face of all that, do you think muslims would renounce their faith? just in case you can’t see where i’m going with this, the answer is no. it would affect practically no one. their religion has nothing to do with truth. open letter to all muslims imagine for a moment, if i could really prove that christianity was completely and utterly baseless… paean for lost lodestar by simon dobson on wednesday, 23 november 2016 / the word declutter is an unnecessary chimera, formed with unsavoury etymological coarseness, but the idea it expresses has merit. i’ve started in a small way in the study, discarding items i will never need like cardboard boxes saved up for a rainy day, and even, horror of horrors, books. and, with no little trepidation, i’ve taken down my “i am normal” notice. my rational self says it wasn’t responsible for psychological equilibrium. but was it? i thought it had artistic merit; the harsh beauty of the plain brown wrapping paper, the meticulously chosen typeface representing the inherently ambiguous nature of human sanity. could these qualities have elicited a feeling of well-being to counterbalance the inner demon? or acted as guiding star and constant reminder to maintain the semblance of normality? obviously i removed the little bits of scotch tape in case they weren’t recyclable and folded the paper neatly so that it didn’t take up too much space in the green bin. so i did right didn’t i? which events are suitable for the olympic games? by simon dobson on monday, 15 august 2016 / two activities i have been very involved with at different times have both in recent years been suggested as additions to the olympic games. with the 2016 games upon us i have my four yearly angst over the nonsensical collection of events contested. what should the olympics consist of? let’s get one thing out of the way. i am not suggesting we go back to corinthian amateurism. we are way beyond that – there are only two sports left where professionals are ineligible, and in the modern era we want to see the best competitors contesting at the highest level. so what should be included? first and foremost are events that demonstrate objective individual athletic achievement in a manifestly natural discipline: running faster, jumping further, leaping higher, throwing further. what about the specific varieties of these? racing over 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m etc makes sense, especially when you know that individual athletes are never the best over a wide range of these. what about different throwing disciplines? okay it is natural to throw round stones, flat stones and spears. so i accept shot put, discus and javelin. hammer is more debatable but a case can be made. what about pole vault? well it is a natural discipline, and the way it has hugely benefited from modern material technology only adds to the skill required and the spectacle. but the proliferation of disciplines in some sports brings the games into disrepute. indeed, were it not for the huge well of enduring reverence they might have become a laughing stock. the main culprit is swimming. it is completely artificial to be forced to swim on your back, or not to be submerged for more than 15m, or to make all the up and down leg movements simultaneous, or to keep your elbows under the water. you can learn to rub your belly while patting your head, but it isn’t sport. there are real competitions for running 100m backwards, but we don’t want them in the olympics. of course swimming should be there and it should encompass different distances, but with no restriction on how you propel yourself. that would make swimming a reasonable olympic sport and remove the farcical overabundance of events. we should take a similar look at sailing, rowing and track cycling. (keirin starts with a silly man pootling round on a moped with his lunch.) multi-discipline events with contrived weighting schemes also fail the ‘manifestly natural’ test. minor changes to the formula might produce different winners. triathlon is a pure race but the lengths of the components are effectively artificial weightings. so no heptathlon, no decathlon, no triathlon. for my next pruning, achievement should be objective. that means no subjective scoring. that’s right, no gymnastics, no diving and certainly no synchronized swimming. not even boxing, where the judges are more akin to independent video referees trying to decide objectively how many punches they see that should count. the degree of subjectivity and uncertainty is just too great. before you even say it, you’re wrong. the ancient olympics did not include gymnastics, nor anything that was judged. indeed, at first they were just running tournaments. later, boxing and wrestling were included as well as chariot racing. boxing wasn’t judged – you won by making your opponent surrender or by being killed! (some of the other ancient games did include cultural events that were judged such as poetry competitions.) what about strongly established one-to-one or doubles sports like fencing or badminton, or team sports like hockey? these are bound to have contrived rules, but should we allow them? with caveats perhaps. firstly, no sport which already has a single prestigious international tournament regarded as the pinnacle of achievement. second, only sports which enjoy widespread international participation. third, no proliferation of events. so no football, baseball, polo or sumo. tennis is a moot case. what we could definitely do without is artificial team variations of individual disciplines. specifically relay events in running and swimming and combined team events such as in fencing. team cycling has a special justification because the team is greater than the sum of its parts. finally, the olympics should be limited to athletic achievement. it would be plain wrong to include darts, snooker or poker. here is a simple test. can you imagine a fifty-year-old winning gold? if so, the activity shouldn’t be included. golf should not be included. neither should shooting nor equestrian. the two activities i alluded to at the beginning are squash and contract bridge. squash yes, bridge no. a view from scrooge's bunker by simon dobson on friday, 12 december 2014 / communal childishness as young children we say “moo-moo” and “tummy” and are enthralled by bright colours and lights. but some people never grow up: they continue to say “tummy” well into adulthood and never lose their fascination with bright lights. they marvel at catherine wheels like a three year old. they festoon their mid-winter houses with tacky decorations in a misguided sense of tradition, slavishly following cultural conventions in a self-conscious act of communal childishness. this is a slippery slope: one minute you are a normal intelligent adult, the next you are watching strictly come dancing . shadwell library is a testament to community spirit. the council would have closed it but for the concerted determination of many villagers and for the continuing effort of many more volunteers running the library and maintaining the building. it remains as vibrant book lender, cultural centre and delightful grade ii listed building in steadfast opposition to the philistines. it is totally inappropriate to despoil the stone building’s charm with flashing christmas lights. ironically those responsible have started to think down the right road and used white lights rather than hideous coloured ones. for that mercy i am very, very grateful. what a pity they didn't follow the logic through and realize how much more tasteful it would be not to put lights up at all. our parish church is dedicated to st paul who famously wrote “ when i became a man, i put away childish things ”. is there any chance that we could be guided by this precept, so that next year when i walk past the library on new year’s eve i can muse on the plain stone facade before having my soul bruised by the christmas decorations in the pub? older posts pages home about me my pgp public key blog archive ▼ 2018 (1) ▼ may (1) sexism and islam ► 2017 (3) ► june (3) ► 2016 (2) ► november (1) ► august (1) ► 2014 (1) ► december (1) ► 2013 (1) ► june (1) ► 2012 (2) ► june (1) ► march (1) ► 2011 (1) ► september (1) ► 2010 (8) ► october (1) ► august (1) ► may (2) ► april (1) ► february (3) ► 2007 (1) ► june (1) ► 2006 (2) ► july (1) ► january (1) ► 2001 (2) ► october (1) ► june (1) followers search this blog powered by blogger . report abuse about me simon dobson view my complete profile sexism and islam we often hear muslims of both sexes parroting that muslim women are treated equally, and i have commented before about how this is at odds... copyright © 2010

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