Who is oppressed ...

Many times we hear the slogan "Opression of Muslim Women" in our culture so
finely and deeply engraved that it is "fixed" within common speech ....

The ignorance of islaam in its details is something complex. The evolution
of this ignorance stems from 100's of years if not a millennia, from the middle ages at least Evolving from orientalists, Crusaders to politicians ....

Knowledge and slogans have been developed and to unwind this culture of ignorance is a mammoth task for the 1-2% of native and immigrant muslims in the West to achieve ....

Going back to the Slogan of "Women are opressed in islam" I would say that the one who is an advocate of this slogan to reflect upon "What is opression" .... and they would find that they fall into opression inadvertantly ... I will list now some opressions that we may fall into ....

I) Slave to the Wage ... the depression/recession that we have just gone throuh post 2007+ spurred by Usury has created an enourmous opression... House values were previously (50 years ago) at a ratio of 1:2 of a mans wage .. Now they are up to 6:1 .....
This has created a new culture of Huge Mortgages that has created a lifetime dependancy upon the bank for anyone. Freeing oneself from the dependancy of the banks is a mammoth task ... and Sacrificing ones family and time for this "freedoom" is surely an opression .... and has created something bordering on Poverty of existence ...


II) The opression of the Mind : A person who lacks an open mind and who has given up the struggle in understanding the world can be said to be opressed. His Vision Narrow, insights few and his life darkened .... Lost in the repetitve habitual bore of life ...

III) Opression of the Media : The opression of a person being dictated to daily by politicans and media in what to feel, in what to hate, in what to love is a source of opression .... The narrowness of this existence is one that is dark and contradictory ...

What is more empowering than for a muslilm to choose The level of his/her piety and for the muslim women to choose his/her closeness to God in their clothing or actions ...

Opression spans more than an apearance (a facade) and can be said to encompass many facets in human existence..

Islam or Liberal Atheism

Another devastating blow from an Andreas Tzortis debate ... (IERA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI9owlpOQl0