Zip:
Flying pig alert.
Via NY Times:
This past weekend, dozens of girls and boys as young as about 8 years old ran up the stairwell to the main entrance of the musallah, or main prayer hall, of the Islamic Society of Baltimore, where President Obama visits Wednesday in his first presidential visit to a U.S. mosque. As the children rounded the corner, a stern mosque Sunday school teacher stood before them, shouting, “Girls, inside the gym! Boys in the musallah.”
The girls, shrouded in headscarves that, in some cases, draped half their bodies, slipped into a stark gymnasium and found seats on bare red carpet pieces laid out in a corner. They faced a tall industrial cement block wall, in the direction of the qibla, facing Mecca, a basketball hoop above them. Before them a long narrow window poured a small dash of sunlight into the dark gym.
On the other side of the wall, the boys clamored excitedly into the majestic musallah, their feet padded by thick, decorated carpet, the sunlight flooding into the room through spectacular windows engraved with the 99 names of Allah, or God, in Islam. Ornate Korans and Islamic books filled shelves that lined the front walls.
As President and Michelle Obama argued decades ago in the context of the U.S. civil rights movement, separate is indeed unequal. To Muslim women’s rights activists fighting for equal access to mosques as part of a broader campaign for reform — from equal education for women and girls to freedom from so-called “honor killings” — the president’s visit to a mosque that practices such blatant inequity represents a step backwards.
If the NYT thinks the government can and would go into a mosque and demand they treat women and men equally or else they lose their tax exempt status, good luck with that. In the first place, it is none of the government’s business, just like requiring the Catholic church to pay for birth control is none of it’s business. Secondly, the government, and THIS government in particular, is too cowardly to confront Islam and its cultural abrogations.
However, no doubt that in a couple hundred years more, women will be accepted as equals within the Muslim church. Just look at all the progress they have made in the past 1600 years.
That’s not all.
That mosque was so unbalanced that Obama brought in Muslims from all over the country to try to make it look more moderate and assimilated.
If he had simply shown up I might have admired him for ”going to church” (or the religious denomination of his choice.)
But Obama stacked the congregants with firefighting Muslims, police Muslims, nurse Muslims, teacher Muslims from all over the USA.
@Nanny G:
Classic taqqiya from the followers of the father of lies.