One of my adoption friends posted link to the following article at the New York Times and yet again I'm finding myself defending Islam.. and not being a Muslim I find it slightly amusing.
The thing is... being married into a Muslim family and being one of the few people I know how have read the Torah, Bible and Quran as Books... please note the emphasise on being books. I have a come to a simple conclusion that in essence they are all the same part of a trilogy. They actually follow on from each other so the Torah is book 1, the Bible book 2 and the Quran book 3.
But what I have learnt from the Books is that us gals aint that bad.. we are after all, aside from God (or whatever you call him/her) the only sex that can give life and from what I have learnt from the family is that us women folk is revered, we are not second class citizens.
The thing is, all this crap in the world that is being blamed on religion actually has nothing to do with the religions or the religious teaching of the Books. They have to do with the traditions of different cultures.
For one - the wearing of the Hijab - Muslim women do not have to wear it unless they want to. It is the same to them as a Catholic lady wearing a mantilla or a Jewish Orthodox woman wearing a wig, it is their choice. Fair enough, personally I do not agree with the wearing of the full burka, then again, when I meet people I do like to see their eyes - I like looking into a person's eye when meeting someone, but as long as the person in question is given the choice, who am I to question their choice.
Since a lot of my belief structure is based on stuff I read about 20 years ago, I should really sit down and read the Books again. However, I know that I'm smart enough to not tarnish a religion with the conduct of some people.
To say that Islam is an evil religion, because what a group of villagers in Bangladesh has done to a young girls, would be the same as me say that all Jews are evil, because I disagree with Israel politics or that all Catholics are child molesters because a few priest has been proven to be child abusers.
So my plea to everyone is please, please educate yourself before you start saying that a religion is evil, bad or oppressing. What the villagers from Bangladesh needs is for you to educate them and not to condemn them. Once upon a time, it was us "educated"people who had to rely on our priests telling us what was in the Bible because we couldn't read what was in it... it is only now we can pick up the all three Books and question what's in them because we have been educated.
Thursday 31 March 2011
Wednesday 2 March 2011
What creep... how can he call himself a man
This post has nothing about adoption but I need to get this off my chest.
Many years ago I met a young lady who at the time had two beautiful daughter and we became very good friend. One of her daughters is ill and according to the doctors she should not be alive today... but that kid is now a beautiful young lady and remains always a true inspiration.
To cut a long story short, I moved away from the area where we lived and the mother had got herself a new boyfriend... and I didn't like him and thought he was a nasty piece of work, so I was an idiot and sort of let our friendship fizzle out. Then over a decade later we get back in touch on one of the social networking sites and our friendship was rekindle.
It turns out that I was right about that boyfriend... OK, he gave my friend two more beautiful kids and these kids are a credit to her and her alone (all her kids are) and fair enough, I do not know his "side" of the story about their breakup etc.
For me that does not matter, I think any outsider would agree with me... how can a man... a father.. insist that the house his children lives must be sold and force their mother and them to move out. Bear in mind that the mother is a full time carer for the ill daughter and his two children is under 12 years old.
The proceed to hold up the equity in the property, so my friend cannot use the her share of the equity to purchase a decent property for herself and the kids. Part of the money to buy the property in question came from her selling her previous house.
Now he is taking his children's mother to court claiming she owes him money?? Whilst all of this goes on... he does not even pay child support for his kids and has not done of ages.
From what my friend tells me he spent a decade trying to break her spirit and nearly succeeded... so she went from a strong fighter who would take on doctor after doctor on behalf of her young daughter to a person feeling totally insecure about herself.
What really got my goat today was he told my friend's ill daughter she would die during one of her surgeries and she was made to feel that she was a burden on the family. How can anyone say something like that to a young teenager knowing what she has gone through in her life.
As I said, I don't know all the ins and outs of this story but I know real men... you know the type, who would walk away from a bad relationship with only the clothes on their back and rather starve than seeing their kids go without, do not emotionally and physically abuse their partners and/or kids.
The good news is that my friend is getting her strength back and his bullying tactics are now failing... she has loads of emotional support around her and no matter what happens during the case she will come out on top.
Many years ago I met a young lady who at the time had two beautiful daughter and we became very good friend. One of her daughters is ill and according to the doctors she should not be alive today... but that kid is now a beautiful young lady and remains always a true inspiration.
To cut a long story short, I moved away from the area where we lived and the mother had got herself a new boyfriend... and I didn't like him and thought he was a nasty piece of work, so I was an idiot and sort of let our friendship fizzle out. Then over a decade later we get back in touch on one of the social networking sites and our friendship was rekindle.
It turns out that I was right about that boyfriend... OK, he gave my friend two more beautiful kids and these kids are a credit to her and her alone (all her kids are) and fair enough, I do not know his "side" of the story about their breakup etc.
For me that does not matter, I think any outsider would agree with me... how can a man... a father.. insist that the house his children lives must be sold and force their mother and them to move out. Bear in mind that the mother is a full time carer for the ill daughter and his two children is under 12 years old.
The proceed to hold up the equity in the property, so my friend cannot use the her share of the equity to purchase a decent property for herself and the kids. Part of the money to buy the property in question came from her selling her previous house.
Now he is taking his children's mother to court claiming she owes him money?? Whilst all of this goes on... he does not even pay child support for his kids and has not done of ages.
He is still trying to bully her and saying stuff like she is not entitle to certain benefits if she does this or this, as a full time care and mother of two young kids she cannot work and have to rely on the state to live,
They have a court case coming up and he and his family (who is actually fairly well off) is going after her with their "big guns", she will be there by her lonesome. They even said something along the lines that it is unfair that they have to pay for lawyers whilst her lawyers are being paid for by the public purse. HELLO...if he was not taking her to court and he was paying for this kids they wouldn't have any court cost would they????
From what my friend tells me he spent a decade trying to break her spirit and nearly succeeded... so she went from a strong fighter who would take on doctor after doctor on behalf of her young daughter to a person feeling totally insecure about herself.
What really got my goat today was he told my friend's ill daughter she would die during one of her surgeries and she was made to feel that she was a burden on the family. How can anyone say something like that to a young teenager knowing what she has gone through in her life.
As I said, I don't know all the ins and outs of this story but I know real men... you know the type, who would walk away from a bad relationship with only the clothes on their back and rather starve than seeing their kids go without, do not emotionally and physically abuse their partners and/or kids.
What I cannot understand that how can a grown man do that to his family and still call himself a man... in my mind he is only a creep...
The good news is that my friend is getting her strength back and his bullying tactics are now failing... she has loads of emotional support around her and no matter what happens during the case she will come out on top.
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