Gaza Goes Fundamentalist in the ExtremeFrom Eric Dondero:
Hamas is instituting a new round of restrictions and regulations on public morals specifically targetted at females throughout Gaza. Women are now banned from dancing. And girls are now required to wear headscarves and full-length cloaks. There are also extreme restrictions on dating, card playing and beach wear. On the latter, full length pants are no longer permitted. Woman are only allowed to bathe in full burqa attire.
As for alcohol brought in from "heathanist" Israel, it will be poured out in front of the "smuggler" at their feet, at Israeli border crossings.
Perhaps the oddest new regulation, and one that smacks of nanny-statism; females are no longer allowed to ride on the back of motor scooters with a male companion. But at least one Hamas spokesman is trying to put a positive face on it, using a Western-style liberal/progressive argument for safety purposes.
According to Hamas Public Morals spokesman Rafik Abu Hani via Bloomberg:
Everyone backs alcohol prohibition, Abu Hani said, and the motorcycle restriction is a safety issue.LINKS
Al-Astal, the Hamas legislator, said it wasn’t a coincidence that youth were the principal targets of the push.
“We are working on young people, the next generation, to be more correctly Islamic,” he said. The older generation “is lost.” And as for motorcycles: “A girl has to hold onto a boy’s waist to ride in the back. Things can happen. You know what I mean,” he said.
This article linked by GOP12
2 comments:
Oh nooooooooooo!!!!!!
The horror!!!!!!!!!!!
Israel helped get Hamas started to counterbalance the secular nationalist and pan-Arabist tendencies of Fatah. The US and UK have conducted the same strategy for years around the Arab world. Islamic fundamentalism hardly existed there until the 70s.
It is just up to chumps like you to point at the Islamists, who are naturally economically and militarily backwards and cannot compete against the imperial powers, as some phantom menaces to your security.
There is a girlie-insecure foreign policy for you.
I used to ride a bike in the hopes that things would happen.
Occasionally they did.
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