You’re so going to hate me – first politics, now religion. What’s next, sex? ;) A good friend of mine from Melbourne told me about something that happened to him a few days ago –
I had no lunch all day so I went to KFC and I wanted a chicken and bacon burger. I was told “no we do not serve bacon here”. I rang KFC Head office to complain about it and spoke to the local area manager. It turns out that this store caters for the local Muslim community only. When I spoke to this manager during the conversation he actually called me a racist pig.
Ok. At what point do we give up *our* culture for someone else’s? I fear I may perhaps be turning into Pauline Hanson instead of just getting fake checks with her name on them, but am I wrong to say KFC has been serving bacon on their burgers for a heck of a long time and religion should not be a reason to change that? What’s next, Burger King and Mcdonalds? What about Hog’s Breath? Will they have to change their logo and not serve pork anymore?
Am I religionist to say I really don’t like this? I can’t be racist, because Muslim is not a race of people, it’s a religion which covers many races. But first the veil which I personally feel is insulting to women and clearly I am not the only one who feels that (you may not agree, and that’s fine) – I think women should be allowed to wear whatever they want but I do not believe they should be doing it because men cannot control themselves – That’s down to the men. While I don’t like to see crack or bellies or other body parts while walking down the street, that’s up to the women who wear those clothes to decide that they feel comfortable going out like that. But some people say this dress code is not anywhere in the Quran at all and it actually has to do with other things entirely.
While many Muslims call “Hijab”, an Islamic dress code, they completely ignore the fact that, Hijab as a dress code has nothing to do with Islam and nothing to do with QURAN.
God, the Most Merciful, gave us three basic rules for the Dress Code for Women in Islam (Submission):
The BEST garment is the garment of righteousness.
Whenever you dress , cover your bosoms.
Lengthen your garment.
Then the Mufti (a man I had never heard of at all before) goes about saying women who don’t wear the Hajib are uncovered meat –
“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it … whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat,” he said.
“The uncovered meat is the problem.
“If she was in her room, in her home, in her hajib, no problem would have occurred.”
The problem apparently was a woman who was raped. Err, that’s not a problem, that’s a *crime*. Women do not ask to be raped, regardless of what they wear. In fact no victim of a crime ever asks for it. If you forget to lock the door of your house when you go out, and people come in and steal everything you own, you are still the victim of a crime because those people *stole* your things. Had no criminals turned up to try the door, your stuff would all still be there. Am I wrong, people?
Not only that, he seems to be saying that women should stay at home, possibly in their room. Well if women are at home in their room, what need do they have for covering up? They should be able to sit there naked if they want to, it’s their room, FFS! You want to tell women what to do and what they should be wearing while they do it every minute of the day? I’d hate to be this man’s wife.
I hate to say it, but when you can’t get bacon on your burger in *Australia* – the land of put anything you like on your burger and call it good – beetroot, egg, bacon, avocado, etc – something is VERY wrong here. And when someone who calls to complain about it is called a racist pig (when this has nothing to do with race at all, it’s about religion) something is VERY wrong here.
At this stage, I agree with Pauline on one thing.. I don’t like it. What do you think?
you said–You’re so going to hate me – first politics, now religion. What’s next, sex? ;)–No we could never hate you ! ” Big AL “
Women without the hajib ARE like uncovered meat. It’s just wrong. I have a steak in my fridge, for instance, and it’s wearing a hajib. If it weren’t I would hump it. Seriously. It’s a sexy fuckign steak. I had to put the sausages on another shelf.
hey there sno – you couldn’t be more right. You hit two different nails on the head with the one hammer. Show me any fast food restaurant (or indeed any restaurant that isn’t based on the culture itself) that changes its menu to suit the religious population surrounding it. I do believe that when you ordered your burger, you were in Australia. I do believe that we “preach” religious tolerance in this country. I’m not religious in any way – and hey – power to ya if it floats your boat, but to get in front of a group of unusually impressionable young men and say that women who are not sitting in a potato sack in their rooms at home are fair game (and laughing about it – vile pig) then something is wrong.
If the person walking past a restaurant is offended by what is served within – provided it is legal in this country – then keep on walking, that’s called freedom of choice. That’s the thing about religion – you have the right to say no. Just like you have the right to have bacon on your burger.
Cheers and keep up the great blog.
Brett (in Canberra)