Prostitution - behind the veil!

Assalamu alaykum

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Ok.. now its really bugging me that Muslim women claimed that they have rights, they are liberated, they are the ones that Islam has honoured them really is that really rue, is that projected from our action?... now I can hear some shocks and some eyebrows are sure to be raised after reading what I have just wrote. If you are a woman reading this, I ask you, when was the last time you truly defended YOUR RIGHT to wear hijab? And I don't just mean the line "Its the gift from Allah" or, "we are gems... we need to cover out beauty"... I mean from the heart, the words with meaning that tear jerking, heart wrenching pull on those who do not wear it, making them feel THEY are the ones at loss. I am sure you have been asked a thousand times... "WHY?!".. "Why, do you follow a religion that oppresses women", "Why do you HAVE to cover", and how many times have you been told "You're a woman, be proud!" "You're beautiful, be proud of your curves!!!"

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Sisters to you I tell you this.... wake up and look around you, we are being represented and misrepresented by anyone and anything that will spark controversy... you only have to turn to your 'well researched' Docu-dramas that are finding their ways onto main stream media. Just yesterday I was disgusted at a documentary on Channel 4, Prostitution - Behind the veil, naturally it had veil in the title so I was intrigued. But low and behold, what do I find a seemingly well founded, factual documentary depicting women, MUSLIM WOMEN as prostitues! Lahowlawala quwata! I felt sick and was in tears at what I saw...

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SYNOPSIS: CUTTING EDGE: PROSTITUTION BEHIND THE VEIL Directed by Nahid Persson, who fled from Iran 20 years ago, this documentary unveils the lives of two women, Minna and Fariba, who work as prostitutes in the Muslim society of Iran. Minna and Fariba are neighbours and good friends, who support each other. Both have to live with the widespread mistreatment of women and the double standards that permeate Iranian society today. Minna and Fariba both make a living from finding male customers on the streets. They have a choice between leaving their small children at home alone or taking them along when they have sex with various men. The film portrays the women sympathetically and explores their everyday life and the way prostitution functions in a country where it is banned and where adultery is persecuted, sometimes resulting in capital punishment. Many of the womens punters find a way to buy sex and still comply in Muslim law: they marry with the women in what is called Sighe, a temporary marriage legal in Shia Islam. Sighe can last from two hours up to 99 years. (From Denmark, in Farsi and Swedish, English subtitles)

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The documentary allowed two (Shia) Muslim Women in Iraq, selling their Izat, OUR IZAT for no more then $10... They were driven to do such a thing to feed their children, and their heroin addictions... They had no use for Islam, and little understanding... one of them at one point riped her tiny little scarf off exclaiming "damed veil".... Oh my dear sisters.. look at how your right to wear hijab is being portrayed in all its glory.

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Ok at first I just could not understand the audacity that these so called women could, would should do such things... things that I cannot repeat without going red with anger and shyness. But then I asked myself why am I getting angry at these women. As the documentary progressed it showed the reasons why these two women were heroin addicts, and guess what... guess who introduced them to the intoxicants... it was their husbands, the fathers of their innocent children.

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What has driven them to such extreme, it was the action of their protectors, their maintainers. As a result not only did the women blame their situation, but they also blamed the country, the fact that shariah law is forced upon them, indeed they were blaming Allah... Astagfarullah.</DIV>

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The documentary covered other issues such as quick marraiages, and having 'Sighe', which is apparently Halal (legal) in (Shia) Shariah law! It showed how one of the womens Sighe would beat her up and her baby, how a man can abuse women in the most horrendous way, how a man in his late 60s married a young runaway 17 year old girl, by a 'Imaam'</EM>! Their men are beyond words that he sold one of the womans daughter! What kind of man does that?! I felt sick! And we asked ourselves, why do people hate Islam so much!!

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Now their husbands were in jail, they were left to fend for themselves, what else does a woman have of worth... but herself, the one thing that man desire. They were in possession of a mighty powerful tool, and so they used it to their advantage. They sold themseleves. Look at them now.

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The children... they were not sensored, they would be witness to their mothers 'getting high' and probably inhaled some of the drug too, and worse still, the children would have to go on the streets with thier mothers, get in the car with total strangers, be witness to how much the price of their mothers honour is prices at, be witness to these fithy men talking fith to their mothers, what effect would this have on their small, innocent lives?

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So to you, the Muslim woman, I ask you, what are you doing to truly portray Islam, what are you doing to defend the honour of your sisters, how are we showing others the Haqq, how are we exemplifying the deen of Allah, what will we say in front of Allah, what will I say in front of my Lord, the most high.

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what are you doing... what are YOU doing, what are WE doing, what am I doing??

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food for thought this Ramadan

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wassalam </DIV>

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See sample of the documentary here share your thoughts on the film here http://www.dfi.dk/tidsskriftetfilm/39/prostitutionbehind.htm http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/behindtheveil.html