Western Handmaids of Allah
(July 2010)
The following is the speech Ms. Jackson delivered to the 2010 New English Review Symposium, Decline, Fall & Islam on June 19th, 2010.
flirty fishing, and now Muslim apologists do the hijab honeytrap. Listen out for the words “oppression”, “empowerment” and “stereotype”:
And so on, and so forth. bla bla bloody bla.
t always have to conform to a certain stereotype or fashion statement.
The Sunday Times sported another cunning array of stunning bints, each less original than the last. Listen out for those words again:
but I never felt truly comfortable.
s social event run by the Leeds New Muslims group. But when I walked in, none of them fitted the stereotype of the oppressed Muslim housewife.. I was struck by how content and secure they seemed.
s another party-goer who trades a hangover for a headscarf:
s the point?
t until my second year that I met Hussein.
and actually found the headscarf liberating. I was convinced, and three weeks later officially converted to Islam.
t met Hussein. Still, plenty more fish in the sea. Or pancakes, if you prefer.
finds her true self in Islam. Listen out for the e-word:
not for the way I looked. It was empowering.
or if they have, in concealing their knowledge they are not dozy but duplicitous.
treats women? The women in this room know. I can only speak for myself, but I would hazard a guess that Islam where Islam holds sway, any rebellion would invite ostracism, beatings or even honour killing. But in the West, in the free world, where the individual is valued and where women are starting to attain something resembling equal rights, we do have a choice. Not just one choice, but many choices, from atheism to pantheism. So why Islam?
t hold water, so what is the real reason? Why do Western women become handmaids of Allah, a God, who, in the words of Wafa Sultan, hates them?
I asked this question a few years ago in an article for the New English Review, and came up with a few categories of dozy binthood, which I will explain and amplify.
are dominated by Muslim fathers and brothers. Living in the West they are not of it. Their choice to wear a jilbab to school, like thirteen-year-old Shabina Begum, is a choice between doing what they are told and being beaten..
These women are so vain, they probably think my talk is about them.
BBC reported on Sheikhs
It is the stuff of escapist fantasy. A tall, dark and handsome type sweeps a cream-and-roses Home Counties heroine off her feet. In its 100 years of publishing, the exotic alpha male has been a staple of the Mills and Boon romance.
s 1970 romance Tawny Sands is perhaps the quintessential Mills and Boon story.
although times can change suddenly, as Marie Antoinette found out. Not so in the Muslim world, and Western converts insult apostates every time they don the hijab.
strategy of denial. Reluctance to criticise Islam has led Mrs Whatabout into all kinds of contorted attempts at moral equivalence. Don’t you know, she squeals, that one in five American women has been assaulted by her partner? And that only one in twenty British rapists is convicted?
dozy binthood is toppled – preferably without crushing a homosexual.
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