Hijab, Political Activist Abuse: Multiculturalism and Political Correctness: Corrupting Democracy
The Hijab and Multiculturalism:
Political Correctness and Abuse
This article is about three subjects: The Hijab, Multiculturalism, and Political Correctness. I will state at the outset, that my daughter-in-law wears the Hijab - but with open face.
At King's Calendar I have written many articles about Political Correctness and Multiculturalism, and some about Women in Islam. I want to state clearly that I have no objection to women wearing open faced hijabs. I hate Political Correctness on it's own, and in symbiosis with Multiculturalism. I do not hate multiculturalism - on it's own.
First, 14-year old British schoolgirl Codie Stott was arrested for trying to get a good grade in her group science project. She had been placed with a group of students only one of whom spoke any English. When they began talking what she deduced was Urdu among themselves, she realized she had no hope of completing the project. She went to her teacher, and prefacing her request with a diplomatic, "I'm not trying to be funny, but ..." she asked to be moved to an English-speaking team. The teacher reacted violently, raising her voice in the classroom to shout, "It's racist! You're going to get done by the police!"
The 14-year old was reported to a police officer on the school premises and the next day she was arrested
Second - Aishah Azmi, a teacher's assistant in an Episcopalian school who was tasked with helping recently arrived Urdu-speaking children to learn English
The school, conciliatory for fear of being accused of racism, told her she was free to wear the veil in corridors and the staff room, but she should remove it when teaching foreign children English. She refused
Third - a Christian worker at a British Airways' check-in counter. She wore a small cross, barely the size of her thumbnail, to work and was sent home for refusing to remove it.
Political Correctness in Symbiosis with Multiculturalism.
Political Correctness is firstly "a political movement" if not foisted onto the community by an activist agenda, then it has at least been hijacked by an activist agenda.
Note the statement which I highlighted in the TCS article: "It's racist! You're going to get done by the police!"
Ask yourself this question: What do you think about the alleged human rights abuses perpetrated by the Communist Government of China? If you feel that the Chinese people, either now, or under the reign of Mao Zedong were not permitted free speech, then I ask, how different is the reaction of the teacher in the article above. The thinking behind Political Correctness is that if you say anything with which we disagree, we will punish you using laws that we had introduced for the specific purpose of controlling the voices of the population.
Political Correctness is bare faced totalitarianism!
In this case - "in symbiosis with multiculturalism" - political correctness denies us the right to express our thoughts, words, or opinions, in relation to 'other cultures'. But who decides what is acceptable in foreign culture, and what is not.
Many times in the past, activists have objected to 'circumcision'. Some people are very vocal in their opposition to this practice, but in being so vocal, are they not criticising both religious and social customs of many ethnic communities? Is that not politically incorrect?
Who determines which foreign cultural activities are acceptable and which are not? Is spitting food and other matter onto the dinner table or floor in a restaurant acceptable? Would you object to it? Did you know it is normal cultural practice for the Chinese in Mainland China? (Oh but it is a health matter you say! - Tosh!)
Would you ban ethnic communities from 'choosing' the spouses of their children? Yet I knew many girls when I was young who knew that they would marry whomsoever their parents told them to marry. Do you object to this cultural practice? Would you dare?
If you dare to object, then who are you to complain when some person finds something about an ethnic culture objectionable. Are you God? Are you the sole arbiter of what is acceptable and what is not?
If you read the full article of which I quoted part, you will find listed some Islamic countries that do not permit veiled women to enter public buildings. Are they racist? Discriminatory?
I was asked last week why I object to Multiculturalism. My answer was that I do not in fact object to multiculturalism. What I object to is it's symbiotic relationship with totalitarianism - with Political Correctness.
In my life, I have at various times been subjected to abuse. Let me list some of the things for which I have been abused:
I am a Nazi Jew killing kraut
I am a dirty Jew
I am a Catholic
I am a fundamentalist Christian
I am a homosexual
I am homophobic
I am white
I am a misogynist - (proof of which is that in a company I owned almost all of my staff were female - part time workers)
I am a racist (living in China and coming from a family consisting of Chinese, Vietnamese, Thais, Japanese, Philippinos, Indians, and Aboriginals plus Europeans.)
6 of my parent's Grandchildren are "ethnic" and have so far only produced 10 'ethnic' great-grandchildren. - 13 of their grandchildren are 'non ethnic?" producing so far 11 'non ethnic' children and 3 'ethnic' children of their own.
I have 5 children, of which 3 married 'ethnic Asians', 1 married 'non ethnic' - if you call Dutch non ethnic, - and 1 is not married.
As a racist, I obviously hate my family, which is why I live in China!
It's a hard life I live, trying to be all things to all people!
I believe that if foreign peoples come to live in Australia, then they must integrate, at least in public, with the rest of the population. Serbs with Croats, Whites with Blacks, Jews with Muslims, Australians with Poms (can't believe I said that!), and even accept Yanks! Orthodox must live with Liberal and reformed, communists must live with the rest of us, monarchists must live with republicans (Damn I did it again!)
Australia has always been a multicultural country. I spent my teenage years working in my parents shop and going to the local public high school in a predominantly Greek-Italian community. My first two years at school were in a private school, where most of the foreign students were Black. I never encountered the 'racist' and politically incorrect "crimes" that we sometimes read about today.
There have always been problems of course, and as I pointed out, being white did not stop me from being abused by abusive people.
The thing I hate about Multiculturalism as it exists today, is that coupled with Political Correctness, it says that we 'must accept' other ethnicities and their cultures. The fact is that we should not have to, even as many of them don't accept ours! Do Muslims or Mainland Chinese accept Homosexuality, The Falun Gong, Christianity, or beer guzzling hedonist students, to name but a few things to be found in our Australian culture?
The fact that we don't like a foreign ethnicity or it's culture, does not detract from our duty as citizens to be decent human beings.
Do you like dealing with drunken, noisy, abusive alcoholics in public places? What do you think when you encounter them? I grew up disliking them, but nevertheless, behaved like a decent human being, showing respect where it was due, and being polite because that is the decent thing to do. The only time when you should demonstrate anything 'negative', is if pushed into a corner from which you cannot escape.
Are you black? So What! Are you a homosexual? So what! Are you a Feminist? So what! Are you a Liberal Party Voter? So what! Are you Muslim? So What! Are you male? So What! As long as we treat each other decently, because we value decency; as long as we treat people as human beings and not as something else, then it doesn't matter what people look like or believe, or what their dress is like, (unless they wear pink chiffon) or what they do at home (with the curtains closed - unless they are good at it.)
But when you force me to accept people, I object! When you punish me for not deceiving you with politically correct language, I object. If you ask me a question, I will give you my honest opinion. If you are a Politically Correct person who prefers that I lie, then sod off!
The Hijab
As I stated at the outset, my daughter-in-law wears an open faced hijab. What difference whether she wears a scarf to protect her head from the elements, or a piece of religious clothing? Didn't Catholic nuns wear something similar? Did we object? we didn't. There is nothing wrong with the hijab.
But in the instance mentioned in the TCS article, the hijab that was worn was a full face hijab that concealed the face. How ridiculous that she should be teaching students of English. Anyone who teaches a foreign language knows how important it is to make students watch your lips when you speak, and how necessary it is to demonstrate how sounds are made.
If the woman wants to wear a full face hijab, that is a matter for security departments concern. If they are happy with it then OK. If not, then it must go. (Given the dust in the air in Wuhan, I often wish I could wear a full face hijab.)
But to conceal your face while you teach foreign students is just plain ridiculous, and I have no hesitancy in stating that that woman is either plain stupid or pushing a hidden agenda.
Of course her objection was that she had a 'male' teacher in the class with her. If she is prepared to take off the face covering in the presence of a female teacher, then that should have been arranged. But what of male students? At what age can she not show male students her face?
Christian Crosses
The final issue dealt with in the TCS article, concerned a woman who wore a Christian cross, contrary to Employers regulations.
If you cannot abide by the regulations of the workplace, you should not be working there, but as it pertains to 'multicultural issues', I agree that if 'ethnic' or 'religious' groups can wear their customary dress, then so too ought Christians to be allowed the same privilege. What is good for the goose is good for the gander, n'est-ce-pas?
In totalitarian communist China, it is common to see Chinese people wearing Christian Crosses, and to see local Muslims wearing open faced hijabs. In Beijing, I saw ethnic Chinese wearing the full Muslim regalia, but with an open face hijab.
If the bloody Communists allow it, who are we to get hung up on it? Obviously the Chinese government and the Chinese people are more tolerant and understanding than are we Westerners.
So what is our problem?
1.. We are bloody stupid.
2..We have bound ourselves up in chains of our own choosing.
3..We have let activists gain control of society.
4..We arrogantly view 'minorities' as inferior, which is why we bend over backwards to treat them preferentially.
5..We don't value a 'common culture'.
6..We strive for equality, and enforce it through discrimination.
7..We don't believe in Democracy.
8..While we believe in Evolution, we interfere with the evolutionary process.
9..We believe that we can legislate Utopia!
10..We are fracturing Australian Society!
Fracturing Society
Any society divided against itself will fall. Wasn't it Jesus who said that? What would he know?
There is a big difference between welcoming foreign peoples and accepting their cultural difference; and promoting a situation through Political Correctness and a love of law suits, that overtly states that foreign cultures take precedence over the 'commonly accepted culture' of the nation.
I've said it before and will say it again: If Australia is to become a totally different cultural reality, then that culture should evolve naturally. Unfortunately, sections of society are trying to engineer that change by force.
Any student of history, psychology or sociology knows, when a major force disintegrates and a power vacuum occurs, something else will fill the void. Symbiotic Political Correctness Multiculturalism, is creating a cultural void in society, and already, competing cultures are trying to fill the void.
The major culture will always be dominant until replaced. There is no such thing as a successfully dominant multi-cultural power structure in any society. One culture will always be dominant.
The question that we must ask ourselves, is which cultural type do we want to be representative of our country. Personally I hope it is the Islamic culture, if for no other reason, than that it will rid our society of all these stupid academic activist social engineers, and give us all one common culture.
That expression 'except unto themselves' is the key to understanding Political Correctness in all it's forms. The purpose of "Politically Motivated Political Correctness Activists" is to make you dependent upon them for 'moral guidance' until you reach the point wherein their power supercedes all other. In short: 'They have an agenda not directly connected to their alleged 'ideology'. We must begin to realise that every source of information has it's own agenda, and that the information provided is designed to stir up our support for that cause. It never ceases to amaze me that those who have a "Just Cause" to fight, have no hesitation resorting to 'Unjust' - 'Dishonest' behaviour. There can never be any excuse for such, but our willingness to ignore the truth is often the result of our own prejudice - 'prejudice whipped up for us by someone's Media propaganda Unit.'
Is it possible that we and our kids are living in a state of 'stupor', controlled by external forces that seek to mould us to their wills? Does the media and do the Universities engineer what we think? Do they try to cast a spell over our minds and our thoughts?
Humankind (I'm afraid to write 'mankind') loves and admires charasmatic speakers and leaders, and naturally we expect students to 'look up to' their teachers. What happens when those leaders and teachers are not worthy of honour, or are teaching that which is contrary to our own (family/ social/ cultural or traditional) culture?
Political Correctness is ultimately a game where the one who is speaking is free to speak, and anyone who speaks against him/her is in the wrong, unless of course what you are saying, has the support of the majority of the 'socio-political' elites. In truth, Free Speech is a Myth
Abuse
All forms of abuse are serious, but the least recognised is Emotional Abuse. In the Article entitled: Emotional Abuse and Female Emotional Abusers this issue is examined. It touches upon Religious abuse, Political Activist abuse, Feminist Abuse, Child abuse, and Men who are abused by women.
R.P.BenDedek is from Brisbane Australia and is the author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' at http://www.kingscalendar.com His academic articles set forth Apologetics for and results of his discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Bible, Josephus, the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah.
He writes photographic 'Stories from China' and social editorial commentaries, both at KingsCalendar, and as a contributing newspaper columnist. He currently teaches Conversational English in China and in addition to his English Lessons at KingsCalendar, he has created specific sites for Students of English.
