"Burka Barbie får inte bli normen...."

Kanadensiska Macleans har ett varningens ord

till Västerlandets kvinnor:
"You may have noticed that the poster girl for the

latest "social justice" campaign is a Muslim woman.

"Drop Fees for a Poverty-Free Ontario" is the

ringing cry, and next to it is a hijab-clad lady

speaking up and speaking out. It's something to

do with the cost of post-secondary education,

which, like everything else in Canada, is supposed

to be "free." The image is a curious choice as an

emblem for educational access: after all, one of

the most easily discernible features of societies

that adopt Islamic dress is how ignorant they

are. In Afghanistan under the Taliban, girls

were forbidden by law to attend school—i.e.,

not just fritter-away-half-a-decade-on-

Ontario-taxpayers "post-secondary" education,

but kindergarten and Grade 1.

In Pakistan, 60 per cent of women are illiterate.

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According to the UN's 2002 Arab Development

Report, half of all women in the Arab world cannot

read. And even in Canada, the ability of the woman

on the subway poster to access that post-secondary

education depends not on the "fees" but on her father

or, if she's already been married off to her 16-year-

old cousin back in Mirpur, her husband.

The Saskatchewan Internet maestro Kate McMillan

summed up the poster thus: "Subjugation of women

—it's the new normal."

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"Traditional Islamic dress" is not so

"traditional."

Talk to any educated Muslim woman who

attended university in the fifties, sixties or seventies

—back when they assumed history was moving their

way and a covered woman was merely a local variant

of the Russian babushka, something old and wizened

you saw in upcountry villages. Now you see them in

the heart of the metropolis—and I don't mean Beirut

or Abu Dhabi so much as Paris and Brussels.

It's very strange to be able to walk around, say,

Zarqa, hometown of the late "insurgent" Abu

Musab al-Zarqawi, and look 90 per cent of

the women in the eye, and even be rewarded

with a friendly smile every so often, and then

to fly on to London and be confronted by one

masked face after another while strolling down

Whitechapel Road in the East End.

The burka, the niqab and the hijab are not

fashion statements but explicitly political

ones, and what they symbolize in a Western

context is self-segregation.

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