Dhimmitude, Disarmament and the Hijab

Read this article by David B Kopel. The abolishment of the Second Amendment is tantamount to dhimmitude.

Islamic law, sharia, forbids non-muslims, known as dhimmi, from possesing arms and defending themselves from attacks by Muslims. The disarmament is one aspect of the pervasive Civil inferiority imposed on non-Muslims...read it all.

Now contrast that to Hot Air's article, Two Cultures, Two Women, Two Fates.

In Western culture, we have learned through the past century or two that equality of the sexes is just an immutable fact. That doesn’t mean that men and women are exactly alike. They’re not. Men and women are different, and the differences acknowledged and understood are beautiful things. But men and women in the West are of equal worth in the eyes of the law and in society’s expression of human rights. Islamic culture takes a very different view. Women are not equal with men in the eyes of sharia law and are certainly not free or valued on a par with men. The hijab and the burqa are not symbols of freedom. In the past few days, the results of this difference in valuation of women between the West and Islamic culture has been brought out into the light by the actions and fates of two women.

This week, a woman living the free life that only the West offers faced a mortal threat. Free to become whatever she wanted without any man telling her no, she became a police officer. On Sunday at her church in Colorado she faced a mortal threat. A man entered with a gun, and he intended to kill as many as he could. The woman’s training and instincts kicked in. She stood up, summoned the courage her Creator endowed her with, and stopped the murderous madman before he could fully carry out his attack. The woman who faced him down is Jeanne Assam, and she’s a hero.

But some women aren't granted such freedom, even to defend their own life.

This week in Canada (though the event could have happened almost anywhere), a young Muslim woman found that a very different story awaited her. She refused to submit to her father’s demand to wear the hijab, a headscarf demanded by some Islamic sects. Her father and brother believed that her refusal to cover her head brought shame on their family. Her refusal earned her death at her father’s hands by strangulation in what has come to be known by the oxymoronic name of “honor killing.” Her name was Aqsa Parvez. In the view of her culture, she was still her father’s and brother’s property. She defied them, and paid for that with her life. She was 16.

We are "keeping and bearing" more than just arms, but our very lives and freedom.

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