Some of the pictures and words I disagree with, especially the tone of some of the statements, and the extent to which some of the images go, but all in all, everything must be said and posted.
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From the Facebook pages:
أصحاب العقول النيرة
Michael Lotfy (1)
عرب جرب
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| "I pity the girl whose reputation goes sour. For she cannot grow a beard to erase [her negative] image." -Ali Shariati |
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| "Arabs are in slumber...for when a woman disrobes, they heed in attention." -Karima Makki al-3ammäry |
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| "Satan is in your mind, and not in the body of a woman." -Layla al-Mutawwa3 |
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| "Freedom according to an Oriental: that all the women of the world should be liberated except for his sister and daughter and niece. Women's rights according to an Oriental: that he has sex with his neighboress and hits his sister if she's late for the dental clinic. Equality according to an Oriental: that he goes on a trip with his female colleagues to the sea and talks to his sister and the son of her uncle from behind a screen (hijab). It is the society of moral contradiction." -Nabil Fayyad |
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| "All of society's contradictions manifest in the dealing with women. Which means, she is either shy or insolent. Either married or looking for a groom. Either covered or exposed. Contradictions that loom over our surroundings after the so-called Arab Spring. We deal with women, in the manner that she is either a nun or a whore, and we assume that the only alternative for the woman without a hijab or a burqa is the bikini, to confirm the concept of either-white-or-black. The conflict over the woman's body is a political conflict, where in it religion is used as a cover-up to undermine women. And in tuth, there are no large differences between the one who wears a bikini to display her body at gatherings, and the one who wears a burqa to cover it. Both use and deal with the body as a commodity! It does not matter what the woman wears or undresses, if it was the result of a mature, conscious thought, far from social or religious or cultural pressures, for the freedom of woman does not begin with her body. The freedom of a woman begins with her thoughts! The bikini and the burqa is the product of a society immersed in contradictions and trivialities that cancel out all the freedoms in the body and sex!" -Lubna Bijäli |
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| "Our society has made the woman do nothing but shelter herself within four walls, and it is a sheltering that, at the end of the journey, does not mean chastity, but incontinence of chastity without walls." -al-Sädig al-Nayhüm |
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| "The society that prohibits the most, is the most obsessive of all societies." -Michael Foucault |
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| "Truly, when we locked the woman inside the house, and have narrowed her range of movement, her mind becomes naive to the farthest limits of naivety. And from here came the sayer's saying: that her mind equals half of a man's mind. And truly, we have found the Western woman almost competing with the man in farsightedness and soundness of opinion. And the reason for that goes back to her new progress, where she has taken to work and travel just as the men do. The thinkers who speak about the obligation of detaining women in their homes, have forgotten that her mind has lessened [in vigor] because of the hijab, for they have caused the narrowness of her mind by [means of] the hijab." -Ali Wardi |
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| "If you find yourself justifying or giving excuses to wife-beating, so that you can defend the legitimacy of your creed, maybe it is time for you to begin rethinking your stance on your creed per se!" -Ahmed 3aqïl |
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| "How ugly is the society that hates honesty! The society that effects debauchery in secret, over a pure smile in candor!" -Collette al-Khouri |
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| "They say horrible things about sex, and women, and lust, and sin, and they forget about fondness and love... Everything in our books and catchwords and commentaries is colored red: blood from the neck, blood from the sword, blood on a tissue on the night of the wedding... As though pomposity is equal in measure to what blood you can cause [to spill] or what feelings you can suppress... How miserable is the culture we have inherited! For we, since 512 years ago, have been unable to produce a single verse of a poem, and we still claim ibn Khaldun to our ancestry, and the astrolabe to our inventions. How dreadful for us, if we are entitled to life and we still call the woman who penetrated outer space as an infidel!" -Abboud Khadarshah |
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| "The Arabian culture of death is a culture that hates life, and glorifies death, and presents it as death in the way of God, and the solution to all of the woes that society suffers from. But, Life in the way of God, is more difficult than death in God's path." -Ali Shariati |
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| "Where the Muslims are not happy: They're not happy in Gaza. They're not happy in Egypt. They're not happy in Libya. They're not happy in Morocco. They're not happy in Iran. They're not happy in Iraq. They're not happy in Yemen. They're not happy in Afghanistan. They're not happy in Pakistan. They're not happy in Syria. They're not happy in Lebanon. They're not happy in Indonesia. So, where are they happy? They're happy in Australia. They're happy in England. They're happy in France. They're happy in Italy. They're happy in Germany. They're happy in Sweden. They're happy in the USA. They're happy in Norway. They're happy in almost every country that is not Islamic! And who do they blame [for their unhappiness]? [...] They blame the countries in which they are HAPPY! And they want to change the countries in which they're happy, to be like the countries they came from, where they were unhappy." -Paraphrase of a comment by Jim Zima entered on foxnews.com regarding the November 24, 2011 news story U.S. Soldier: Removing Cross is Attack on Christianity by Todd Starnes. |
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| "How can I liberate a woman who adorns her slavery, and considers her fetters bracelets of gold that jingle in her wrist? How can I liberate a woman who stands in line in front of Scheherazade's room, until her turn comes? ** The Arabian woman wants the one who chews the lump of freedom and swallows it on her behalf. Therefore, she is afflicted by poverty of courage and poverty of blood. ** The woman fears freedom, like the house cat fears leaving the home, where it had its meals for free." -Nizar Qabbani |
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| "Love me, Far away from the lands of oppression and repression! Far away from our city that has been satiated from death! Far away from our bigotry! far away from our rigidity! Love me, far away from our city that, from the day it came into being, love does not come to it, God does not come to it!" -Nizar Qabbani |
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| "Music is the food of every lover." -Jalal-ud-Din al-Rumi |
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| "Be where the singers are. For the evil ones do not sing." -Unknown |
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| "I am not under coercion to bear suppression from the mob of non-Arabs and Arabs, and to wear what clothing they want! Whoever fears for himself and his religion from the temptation of women's bodies, in all simplicity, he can go castrate himself!" |
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| Outside the societies of incense and the punishment of the grave, life has another flavor... |
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| Freedom: an innate disposition we are born with, and we shall always be vivified by it. |
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