SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
Where's The Outrage?
A Muslim imam brought in to lecture students at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo apparently generated no controversy when he said women should only work in administrative jobs and should cover themselves in public because they are too tempting to men, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.
Imam Siraj Wahhaj of Masjid Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y told about 400 students, faculty and staff at the college that women should never sacrifice their primary role as caregivers and mothers for a secondary one in a career. He also said women in administrative roles makes sense but "would you want to work with or depend on being saved by a woman firefighter?"
The event, dubbed Making the Connection, was described as an “evening of education, free-form discussion and a sumptuous Middle Eastern dinner.” Instead of sparking paroxysms of rage among the audience and women on campus, however, the reaction as described by the paper was downright civil.
Any bets on what would have happened had the speaker been a member of the Promise Keepers or a Young Republican?
**from tonguetied.us**
So....whaddaya think? Are segments of our campus population becoming so sympathetic to the Muslims that statements such as these can go unchallenged even among that highly charged audience? Would similar statements professed from the mouth of a televangelist receive similar calm reception? Is not sexism always sexism?
Please...discuss it amongst yourselves...I'm all verklempt (or however it's speeled)...I feel overcome with a sense of shame when hypocrisy such as this is not exposed...
(then again, it IS Michigan...no use looking for logic amongst the illogical...)
A Muslim imam brought in to lecture students at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo apparently generated no controversy when he said women should only work in administrative jobs and should cover themselves in public because they are too tempting to men, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.
Imam Siraj Wahhaj of Masjid Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y told about 400 students, faculty and staff at the college that women should never sacrifice their primary role as caregivers and mothers for a secondary one in a career. He also said women in administrative roles makes sense but "would you want to work with or depend on being saved by a woman firefighter?"
The event, dubbed Making the Connection, was described as an “evening of education, free-form discussion and a sumptuous Middle Eastern dinner.” Instead of sparking paroxysms of rage among the audience and women on campus, however, the reaction as described by the paper was downright civil.
Any bets on what would have happened had the speaker been a member of the Promise Keepers or a Young Republican?
**from tonguetied.us**
So....whaddaya think? Are segments of our campus population becoming so sympathetic to the Muslims that statements such as these can go unchallenged even among that highly charged audience? Would similar statements professed from the mouth of a televangelist receive similar calm reception? Is not sexism always sexism?
Please...discuss it amongst yourselves...I'm all verklempt (or however it's speeled)...I feel overcome with a sense of shame when hypocrisy such as this is not exposed...
(then again, it IS Michigan...no use looking for logic amongst the illogical...)
