Friday, September 01, 2006

To Integrate Or Not To Integrate, That Is The Question.

When I heard this morning, on the news, that Mr. Johnny Howard wants Muslim migrants to learn English and integrate with the Aussies and embrace aussie lifestyle/values, I felt outraged!
What the heck is he getting at now? Why is the spotlight always shone on us Muslims? Just leave us alone and let us speak if it's Freedom of Speech that you're preaching. I mean, learning english has great advantages; but if the old folks don't want to and it serves no benefit for them, why bother?? Don't push people into doing something they don't want to do.

Johnny wants us to
INTEGRATE and embrace aussie values. Just what ARE aussie values?? If it entails Muslims going down to the local pub and surround themselves with alcohol, let alone DRINKING some too- that is not on! And if it entails Muslim women to let loose of their Hijabs and long dresses and reveal their beauty to the world- that is out of the question!

Speaking of
EQUALITY, I cannnot be more ticked off @ the PM for stating: "And it means understanding that in certain areas, such as the equality of men and women ... people who come from societies where women are treated in an inferior fashion have got to learn very quickly that that is not the case in Australia." For those of you who are in darkness and don't know a thing about Islam you'd best keep your eyes glued to this blog for a little bit.

Our Creator, Allah Almighty, created us human beings under the shade of EQUALITY. Meaning that we are equal in our human instincts; survival, procreational, and worshipping instincts. What makes men & women different is our
RESPONSIBILITIES.

For example: a married couple (man & woman) with kids maintaining their household. A Father has the role to financially support his family and therefore he seeks work. A Mother's number one priority is to look after her kids and the household and therefore she either stays home and look after the kids OR she can go out into the workforce and help her husband AND look after the kids. And behind every successful man is a woman who maintains that success.

If Johnny Howards thinks, even for one second, that Islamic culture inferiorates women and their values, then he's got no idea whatsoever. In the time of The Prophet (peace be upon him), as long as 1400 years ago, women were even allowed to vote, own properties, have their own businesses and you're calling us Muslims 'ancient', 'backward'?? (pfFt!).

According to Australian history (i'm not really good with Australian History, so I don't know the dates of the events occured) women were NOT allowed to vote until a later time! (see, told you I wasn't good at dates). They were treated like rubbish and men held the assumption that women had no souls. What kind of a society is THAT?! And yet Johnny Howard criticises Muslims to treat their women as equals. Johnny, your head is messed up!!
Read the whole article: Learn English, PM Insults Muslims.


HADITH OF THE DAY
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "Verily there is a piece of flesh in the body,
if it is good, then the whole body will become good.
But if it is corrupt, then the whole body will become corrupted.
Verily it is the heart."
[Muttafaqqun Alaih]
Everything you've read is my Islamic opinion and if you don't like it, fine, I don't care, it's my opinion. And if you've got opinions which I don't like, fine, I don't care, they're yours to keep.
Just remember this: Islam promotes peace and NOT hatred. Jihad and suicide bombing is another subject that I can go into, but not now.
~Peace.

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