SilencE is GoldeN...or is It?

Mus-lim Woman Sparks Debate With 'Apartheid' Remarks

"Malaysia is considered one of the most moderate nations in the Mus-lim world, but the daughter of a former prime minister has sparked a row by comparing discrimination against Mus-lim women in her country with the treatment of black South Africans under apartheid.

As non-Mus-lim women catch up with women in the rest of the world, Mus-lim women here are only going backwards," Marina Mahathir wrote in a newspaper column.

Mahathir, a women's rights and HIV/AIDS campaigner, was referring to new family laws that will make it easier for Muzlim men in Malaysia to take multiple wives and claim property after divorce.

Under Izlamic law (sha-ri'a), Malaysian Muzlim men already are allowed up to four wives. But the new legislation will give them more rights to claim assets after divorcing a wife, to seize property belonging to existing wives, and lessen their obligation to pay maintenance.

Organizations that came out against the proposals were attacked for promoting "western"-style gender equality, and parliament passed the legislation at the end of last year.

In multi-ethnic Malaysia, where Muzlims comprise about 60 percent of the population, the proposed new laws will only apply to Muzlims.

Mahathir wrote that, more than a decade after apartheid had ended in South Africa, an "insidious" form of discrimination was developing in Malaysia, between Muzlim and non-Muzlim women.
The article was due for publication last Wednesday, International Women's Day, but The Star newspaper - for which she has long been a regular columnist - held it because of the controversial content.

Mahathir then published it on the Internet, with a note saying: "For the first time in some 17 years, The Star is refusing to publish my column ... they said that the powers-that-be there think it's too tough on the government and it's not the right platform etc."
The column eventually was published on Friday."


Here we go again:
The ongoing struggle between two irreconcilable value systems, one based on the Enlightenment tradition, the other clinging to religious dogma which it freely imposes upon its citizens, particularly its female ones.
Not only are they political aggressive,-holding publication of the article, but to add insult to injury they are culturally arrogant about it.

Lest we forget, we are dealing with a religion which does not recognize any separation of politics and religion.
This has always been so and in case your'e wondering.. will always be. It is the very nature of the religion.

In their framework of government, Al-ah has all the power...not the "people", not the "courts", not a document written by forefathers. The Qu-r'an, is always taken literally. Those words are considered to be the actual words of their God and can therefore, never be altered. There will be no "amendments"...trust me.


And yet again they promote a restrictive theocratic view of human relations and world politics, trying to silence a remark by a Muzlim woman, because "the powers that be" deem: it sends a wrong message to the world."

And needless to say-THEY always know best. Don't they?




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