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Subject: grooming
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urvoice1 30.05.12 - 11:30pm
where children are told.. if you tell, something bad will happen to your parents. be nice (to me) and everything will be ok. * +
urvoice1 30.05.12 - 11:33pm
then I read this.............My teachers also made me believe that I had to put my headscarf on, and if I did not, my parents would be on the receiving end of gods wrath. * +
urvoice1 30.05.12 - 11:36pm
According to my educators, my voice, body and hair possessed the power to lead men astray... and should this lead to their downfall then it would be my fault entirely * +
urvoice1 30.05.12 - 11:37pm
I so wanted to be identified as a good, pious Muslim girl that I obeyed my educators when they insisted that I give up all the activities that I used to love: in particular the sporting ones and becoming a member of the Scouts group. I was even told to minimise contact with close friends who were non-Muslims! * +
urvoice1 30.05.12 - 11:41pm
For me, Islam has always been a religion that is just and fair. Why then were the outcomes for women not so? Why were women shouldering the burden of delayed divorce processes? Why was it so difficult for women to obtain maintenance for themselves and their children from errant husbands? Why, when so many women were now breadwinners within their own families were they receiving less inheritance than their male siblings? * +
urvoice1 30.05.12 - 11:42pm
Surely this was not the fate Allah had intended for Muslim women. To be told that women should endure these injustices only to reap the rewards of heaven later was simply too convenient insufficient to cauterise the pain that some women and children perennially face. Even more disconcerting is that Muslim men and Muslim society in general are complicit in perpetrating this injustice! * +
urvoice1 30.05.12 - 11:44pm
old topic new style, 
this is only one womans account, but, how many young, impressionable girls are taught this way ? don't do it and something bad will happen to one you love ? does that leave them a choice ? * +
urvoice1 30.05.12 - 11:47pm
Ratna Osman now works within Sisters in Islam, working with others to campaign for equal rights for women. She was that young impressionable girl who found the courage to say what she thought, not what her teachers told her to say * +
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