May 19, 2007

more notes on politics, integration, moral panic and womens liberation:

Again, DFF leader Pia Kjærsgård is airing her opinion, welltimed and superspinned, accordingly to the political situation in DK. She now suggets a total ban on headscarf in public institutions, arguing tha th epurpose is to "free the muslim woman..", and doing that an early headstart is the most construtive solution. To me it seems, shes is playing a political card that cannot be accepted by any of the political partys in the government thus adding to a turbulent period leading up to the coming election in, the latest 2008. So womens liberation, I dont think she could care less really, and it leaves me with certain doubts, not only connected to the ravings of DFF.

Leave the (muslim) woman alone. I do not believe that a "we" can liberate "them", in anyway or conerning any issue.
By wearing a scarf more a great number of muslims women expresses personal choice, no matter how anachronistic the symbol might be or seem.
If the "problem" is to be solved, I do not think its up to the women to take the fight alone... (and especially not in grammar school), no, the issue can only be solved by an intense involvement of The Arabic Man, upholding and nursing the moral and religious codes. If you compare the two: A (given) muslim woman wearing a scarf and a (given) arabic/muslim man nursing the religious and moral apparatus, the patricarc constitutes a much bigger issue than the woman actually wearing the scarf.