around them. We were more relaxed back then. Today the hijab is a popular choice for many females, young and old, and the niqab is also fashionable in some town and cities across the UK. It is a political statement for many and for many others they have been brainwashed by the likes of Zakir Naik, preaching his hate via Muslim channels, viewed in many homes in the UK.
There are also those that negatively judge a woman who may choose to wear a hijab yet continue to wear Western clothes with it; they’ll say her clothes are too tight or that it’s pointless wearing a hijab, Astaghfirullah – God forgive her and many other catty comments. Many strong Pakistani Muslim women have been speaking out against the hate preached in their communities, they have been vocal about forced marriage and honour violence too. The males in the Muslim communities, the males that dictate how everyone should live, have shut out their voices. This in turn has led to non-Muslim men and women being “de-programmed” so as not to express concern or solidarity with women of a Muslim heritage. Otherwise decent people have been silenced for fear of offending the Muslim men who are responsible for the suffering of Muslim women.
Islam does not mean peace; it means submission to the will of Allah and it is supposed to be a way of living your life. If only it would evolve with the times, as other religions have done, and not be stuck 1400 years ago.
Muslims boast about Islam being the first to give women rights yet are silent at the treatment of women in Muslim majority countries today, and are trying to silence women in Western society from speaking out against the atrocities carried out in the name of Islam. Many of those who view Islam as the religion of hate and war only need to point out the endless and senseless fighting that is occurring amongst Muslims in Middle Eastern countries, and those that argue back that Islam is a religion of peace need to stop with the denial and silence. Denial and silence is what causes extremism to flourish in communities. Denial and silence is what causes evil in places like Rotherham. Silencers and deniers will resort to any diversionary tactics they can: when you talk about the serious issues that are occurring in Pakistani communities, especially the raping of young underage white girls, you are accused
on in the world today. Sunnis killing Shi’ites, Shi’ites killing Sunnis and ISIS killing anyone - all for the pure sake of killing, it seems. Saudi Arabia killing the innocents in Yemen, the Taliban killing in Pakistan. It never ends. Every day, it seems, brings more misery, and that is even before we start talking about Muslims killing non-Muslims.
Only God can judge me - that is what Judgment Day is for, after all. The day when Allah/God decides who is going to heaven and who is going to hell. Yet here on Earth we have all these crazy lunatics deciding they are God and that their God will be so pleased with them for killing innocent people, in his name.
The drawing of Mohammed also causes many people to lose their minds and want to behead those who have drawn the picture or insulted the prophet. Many have been killed and many have gone into hiding for fear of being killed. Is this peaceful? As someone who was born into a Muslim family, does it bother me when I see pictures of Mohammed, or insults aimed at him? No, I ignore it and move on. If you are a pious Muslim and praying five times a day, then there should be no anger, no rage, in you that makes you to want to kill. There should be no time in your life for you to even think about these things. But when you have hate preachers, preaching at the mosque you attend, about the infidels, the kaffirs, and the “corrupt West” in which you are living and making a life or claiming benefits, then you can see where the hate and resentment can start to grow. These radical hate preachers brainwashing the minds of young Muslims attending their prayer classes, still continue to live in the “corrupt society” they preach is the worst of the worst. They brainwash the minds of the young to not have any fun, everything is deemed haram, for females especially. Covered from head to toe these women are allowed only to see through a slit in the niqab they have been forced to wear.
Even though many women will argue it is their choice to cover up, you know it is the religious interpretation of the Quran and Hadiths that the males in the family have chosen to follow. When I was growing up as a Muslim, in the 70s and 80s, the hijab was nowhere to be seen and the niqab rarer still. Very few Pakistani Muslim families made the females feel ashamed and dirty for not being covered and thus “tempting” to all the males around them. We were more relaxed back then. Today the hijab is a popular choice for many females, young and old, and the niqab is also fashionable in some town and cities across the UK. It is a political statement for many and for many others they have been brainwashed by the likes of Zakir Naik, preaching his hate via Muslim channels, viewed in many homes in the UK.