GrapeJ713
17th May 2003, 03:12 PM
I saw this posted in the L&A forum, and I thought this would be a better forum to discuss why the islamic fundamentalists (wahabbi, shia etc.) fear women's sexuality so much.
http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19718
Taliban Demise Frees Cannes' Afghan Films Taliban Demise Frees Cannes' Afghan Films
http://www.rr.com/v5/2/news/frame/0...p~1~9006_414224
When a young woman without a veil walks down a street in Afghanistan, an old man passing by turns to face the wall and chant a prayer for forgiveness. For him, just seeing a woman's face is a sin.
It's a scene in a new movie playing at the Cannes Film Festival. "At Five in the Afternoon" is about a young Afghan with a big dream: She wants to be her country's first female president. Before the movie's heartbreaking close, she has small triumphs _ like defiantly lifting her burqa to take strolls.
The movie's 23-year-old director, Samira Makhmalbaf of Iran, is one of a handful of moviemakers bringing cinema to Afghanistan since the demise of the Taliban regime that banned music, television, movies and theater. Cannes is showcasing two films shot there.
Makhmalbaf based some scenes on her own experiences. At a Kabul hotel, an old man turned to the wall when she passed by wearing only a headscarf, not the long, face-covering burqa.
"He tried not to look at me, he believed in it deeply," she told The Associated Press on Friday. "I really wanted to cry for a man who believed in that kind of ignorance."
Most of the religions Of The Book, have a lot of misogeny in them. But what the fundamentalist mullahs pull out of the Koran is the most severe form of it. I think it has to do with men wanting to control women, because women control 100% of the vagina supply in the world. I think they basically just don't want to be puddy whipped like some men are in most western civilizations. They don't want to be tempted to submit to a woman's sexual power so they cover them up and try to keep them dumb, servile, babymaking housekeepers. Do they think if the veils come off and women are treated equally under the law it would be a downward slide into being dragged to romantic comedies by thier wives?
http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19718
Taliban Demise Frees Cannes' Afghan Films Taliban Demise Frees Cannes' Afghan Films
http://www.rr.com/v5/2/news/frame/0...p~1~9006_414224
When a young woman without a veil walks down a street in Afghanistan, an old man passing by turns to face the wall and chant a prayer for forgiveness. For him, just seeing a woman's face is a sin.
It's a scene in a new movie playing at the Cannes Film Festival. "At Five in the Afternoon" is about a young Afghan with a big dream: She wants to be her country's first female president. Before the movie's heartbreaking close, she has small triumphs _ like defiantly lifting her burqa to take strolls.
The movie's 23-year-old director, Samira Makhmalbaf of Iran, is one of a handful of moviemakers bringing cinema to Afghanistan since the demise of the Taliban regime that banned music, television, movies and theater. Cannes is showcasing two films shot there.
Makhmalbaf based some scenes on her own experiences. At a Kabul hotel, an old man turned to the wall when she passed by wearing only a headscarf, not the long, face-covering burqa.
"He tried not to look at me, he believed in it deeply," she told The Associated Press on Friday. "I really wanted to cry for a man who believed in that kind of ignorance."
Most of the religions Of The Book, have a lot of misogeny in them. But what the fundamentalist mullahs pull out of the Koran is the most severe form of it. I think it has to do with men wanting to control women, because women control 100% of the vagina supply in the world. I think they basically just don't want to be puddy whipped like some men are in most western civilizations. They don't want to be tempted to submit to a woman's sexual power so they cover them up and try to keep them dumb, servile, babymaking housekeepers. Do they think if the veils come off and women are treated equally under the law it would be a downward slide into being dragged to romantic comedies by thier wives?