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March 31st, 2009 | 
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The burqa is a war on women
A ban on the burqa is clearly one of them. But the time has come to get over our fears and cultural fragilities - and grow up. The call to ban the burqa is receiving serious consideration in European parliaments. And it should here, too.
Belgian legislators voted last month to outlaw the burqa in public places. On Wednesday, a bipartisan resolution passed by the French parliament deploring the burqa - on the grounds of "dignity" and "equality of men and women" - was presented to the French cabinet, and a ban is expected later this year. Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Canada are also grappling with the issue.
But in Australia, in a sign of cultural timidity and intellectual weakness, we seem intent on shunning any meaningful debate about the burqa and its place in a liberal democracy. At one level this is understandable, given the issue has become a confusing tussle between feminists and well-meaning liberals; nervous libertarians and right-wing ideologues; and the usual smattering of racists and dog-whistling shock-jocks.
Unfortunately for Muslim women, the burqa is not just a garment. It has become a weapon in a war of ideology: a war in which women are the battleground and their rights and freedoms are at stake.
Here's the problem. Those who are critical of calls to ban the burqa perceive it to be an attack on personal freedoms. They view the burqa as an individual choice - which is arguable - and a religious requirement, which it is not. They look straight past the woman hidden from public view under heavy cloth, and instead applaud our multicultural tolerance. This is a mistake. The burqa has nothing to do with ethnic diversity and everything to do with a war against women. Those who wear it, and those who insist it be worn, subscribe to an ideology in which women are inferior sexual temptresses, whose female form is a problem and must be covered. This is based on the contradictory proposition that men are both superior and yet unable to control their sexual urges if they see women in their natural human state. If this wasn't deadly serious, it would be funny.
Award-winning Muslim journalist Mona Eltahawy says she is appalled to hear Europeans defend the burqa and niqab. "A bizarre political correctness has tied the tongues of those who would normally rally to defend women's rights," she says. Yet, to argue directly with Islamic fundamentalists about gender equality is fruitless. According to Eltahawy, "the ideology that promotes the niqab and burqa does not believe in the concept of women's rights to begin with".
Let's be clear. This is not about the hijab - or headscarf. Like any hat or cap, the hijab is a matter of individual right. Whether worn for reasons of devotion, modesty, conformity or fashion, it is personal and the state has no business banning it. The burqa is an entirely different issue.
The burqa and the niqab shroud the full body, covering every part of a woman except her feet. The niqab includes a slit for the eyes, whereas the burqa has mesh netting. Malalai Joya, an Afghan MP and a devout Muslim, hates wearing it. "It's not only oppressive," she says, "but it's more difficult than you might think. You have no peripheral vision. And it's hot and suffocating under there."
When visiting Australia recently, Joya didn't pack her burqa. She is one of the many millions of Muslim women around the world who choose not to wear it - when they don't have to. Numerous Islamic scholars, men and women, argue that there is not a single reference in the Koran that mandates women must cover their face and bodies and hide themselves from public view. The Koran does call for modesty, which some interpret as an obligation to wear the headscarf. But even that is widely questioned by progressive Muslims scholars such as Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress. Furious at Islamic extremists for their "gender apartheid", Fatah insists that even the hijab is being used by fundamentalists as a "political tool" who have turned it into "the central pillar of Islam".
Outside Australia, there are plenty of Muslim women who despise the burqa and niqab as much as I do, and are prepared to say so. British journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a Shiite Muslim who pulls no punches. "I abhor the burqa," she wrote in The Independent, saying that she was "offended" by the presumption that women who wear it "are more pious and true" than her.
There is no doubt that women who don this ostentatious costume in the West are proud of their piety. One such woman told me, "the niqab is submission and servitude to my Almighty Creator" and that I had no right to question her choice to wear it. Well, I do. What God demands men roam free while women wear a sackcloth that restricts their movement and dehumanises them? What God wants to punish women in this way? What God hates women so much that he restricts her right to be man's equal?
The answer is obvious. No God. This is the work of men - who claim a direct link to the divine - and wish to keep women subordinate and under their control. It's that simple.
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Famous Poets and Their Work
Famous poets are well known poets from all around the world. These writers established themselves as a famous poet is some kind of way. Many famous poets have poems in books as well as in other places. These writers may also have books written on them. Below is a list of famous poets.
Jeton Kelmendi Albanian
Jeton Kelmendi is a famous writer from Peja, Kosova. He was born in 1978 in. His early education was done in Peja. Later on in his life he went to college and got a Bachelor's degree in Arts in Mass communication. He is last known to be attending the Free University of Brussels completing graduate studies. Some of his published work is "Beyond Silence", "Time when it was time", You arrived for the trace of wind" and "Fatherland pardon me". He also has a lot of work published in many different foreign languages. Jeton was in the War of Liberation of Kosovo.
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein is a famous writer from Chicago. He was born on September 25, 1930 (died May 10, 1999). Shel Silverstein is also known as a playwright, illustrator, screenwriter, and songwriter. Some of his popular books are "The Giving Tree", "A Light in the Attic" and "Falling Up".
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was a famous poet from Boston born January 19, 1809. He died on October 7, 1849. Besides being a poet and writer he was also an editor and literary critic. Some of his most popular poems at "The Bells", "The City in the Sea", "The Haunted Palace" and "A Dream Within a Dream". Some of the Tales he wrote were "The Black Cat", "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "The Oval Portrait" and The System of Doctor Tarr Professor Fether". Politian was the only play that Edgar Poe wrote. During Edgar Poe's childhood he was orphaned when his mom died then not to long after his dad left family. As a critic Edgar was known as a philosophical, discriminating and fearless critic.
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings was a famous writer from Cambridge, Massachusetts born on October 14, 1894. He was also a playwright, essayist, author, and painter. He known work includes 2,900 poems, many paintings, four plays along with other work. He died on September 3, 1962. He some of the awards that he received are the Dial Award, Harriet Monroe Prize from Poetry magazine, Bollingen Prize in Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship and the Boston Arts Festival Award.
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was a famous poet born on February 1, 1902 in New York City, New York. He died on May 22, 1967. Besides being a poet he was also a short story writer, columnist, novelist and playwright. Some of his poetry collections are Dear Lovely Death, One-Way Ticket, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes and The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times.
For a person to become a famous poet they would have to become known by many people from there poetry in some kind of way. Some people gain popularity from winning poetry competitions and from publishing poetry books. Famous poet's biographies can be found on the internet and in poetry books.
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