To all Women : It's a LIPSTICK ALERT!!
Those perfumed hussies are just asking for trouble:
One of the leaders of Malaysia’s Islamic opposition has upset women in the country by suggesting that they should stop wearing lipstick and perfume to lower the risk of being raped.
Nik Abdul Aziz, the spiritual leader of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, claimed that even women who wore Muslim head-scarves could arouse men if they also wore make-up and perfume. The end result could be rape or molestation, he said.
Published Date: 03 September 2003
Source: The Scotsman
Location: Scotland
Malay Islamic leader warns lipstick and perfume are rape risks
By GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN
ONE of the leaders of Malaysia’s Islamic opposition has upset women in the country by suggesting that they should stop wearing lipstick and perfume to lower the risk of being raped.
Nik Abdul Aziz, the spiritual leader of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, claimed that even women who wore Muslim head-scarves could arouse men if they also wore make-up and perfume. The end result could be rape or molestation, he said. Many women from Malaysia’s Malay Muslim majority wear a moderate form of Islamic dress, such as long sleeves and a head-scarf covering the hair but leaving the face exposed. Younger women often wear the head-scarf with modern clothes such as jeans, as well as make-up and jewellery. Ivy Josiah, a leader of Women’s Aid, said Nik Aziz’s comments suggested he believed victims of rape were responsible for provoking it. "Rape is a chosen action by men who want to assert control over women," she said.
But Anwar Bakri, an adviser to MrAziz, said: "[Mr Aziz] said that just like we carry money safely hidden away from the sight of thieves, practising good dressing and moderation can avoid attracting sex maniacs." The fundamentalist Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party is the country’s largest opposition group.
Last Updated: 03 September 2003 12:00 AM
The above is a news report. I got stuck up while I was looking for something very positive about wearing lipsticks but out of all the searches I made, this just degraded my idea to any good belief. To the worst, I expected the Lead content in Lipsticks or alike but this came out to be the worst of the worst.
I'm not at all lipstick regular but it made me aware of the very opposition to any kind of make-up - be it sprinkling perfume, to make-over, to just highlighting lips...
I could also pen down some views from some website where you will read how varied views are:
The cherry gloss or the fire engine red?
Lipstick won't matter a jot if this story from the source quoted above comes true.Posted by: pooh at September 3, 2003 at 07:03 PM
Hmm, Aziz by his generalization, given a majority of Malaysians are muslims, many Muslim men are potential rapists. Dr. Mahatir incumbency as president of Malaysia was an unfortunate influence, Mahatir stirred the fundamentalist heart. But, then, Mahatir is a vulgar man.
In view of primitive ape-man Aziz, however, one hopes his successor is of finer metal.I refer readers for a summary of why, becuase it is well and quickly put, to a recent article on Malaysia, pointing up the contrast between Muslims in Malaysia as opposed to Islamo-fascist parties and theocracies. Go to von Mises Institute on the internet.Posted by: d at September 3, 2003 at 07:10 PM
I wonder what Broinowski will have to say about this.Posted by: Andjam at September 3, 2003 at 09:06 PM
Oh yes, because a woman is to blame when she is raped. Thankfully I don't live in Malaysia, where I may be tempted to dismember a few, um, members.Posted by: Caz at September 3, 2003 at 09:49 PM
Why not adopt the Somali/Chad/assorted other havens of forward thinking/ method of rape prevention?A stich in time saves nine.Posted by: Habib Bickford at September 3, 2003 at 10:39 PM
No, Caz, the woman is ONLY to blame for being raped when the rapist isn't white. Otherwise the fault lies with America, capitalism, angry white men, and McDonalds.Posted by: Clem Snide at September 3, 2003 at 11:26 PM
"princess pink"Posted by: section8 at September 4, 2003 at 02:48 AM
Anyone wearing lipstick should be raped immediately.
The temptations caused by lipstick are too much for men to restrain themselves. Society is being destroyed by lipstick.
I am only a slave to my id and hormones. I must be a republican.Posted by: hfsc_peace at September 4, 2003 at 07:02 AM
So islam is the religion of love and tolerance is it? I don't think so folks. I'll stop here or the rant will go for pages. Backward thuggish morons.Posted by: Jake D at September 4, 2003 at 11:10 AM
Just hope those Malaysian boys wearing aftershave know what they're doing.Posted by: Rob (No 1) at September 4, 2003 at 11:11 AM
Strewth, Rob, a rampaging pack of transvestites will be after them.Posted by: d at September 5, 2003 at 01:01
Truly speaking, these comments look disdain to me.
This forced me to dig my own answers to such a warning situation. In order to achieve my objective, I came across this novel that talks of quite a similar scenario as in - this Lipstick crap.
Follows the review of a book named 'Lipstick Jihad' which I believe leaves this discussion yet very controversial ......
Azadeh Moaveni grew up in San Jose, California, the daughter of Iranian emigres (her mother never did like the word "immigrant"). As with most children of emigres, she feels she straddles two cultural worlds, the exotic Iran, home to some of the world's greatest poets, dense, fragrant orchards and finest carpets, and the United States, the land of her classmates and her adopted land. As a young girl she had wonderful memories of a summer spent visiting relatives in Tehran, and in university she developed a strong interest in her Iranian heritage. She became a reporter for Time magazine, and, after a stint in Cairo, she was assigned to work in Tehran.
This personal memoir describes her life in Tehran between the years 2000 and 2002. When she arrived in Tehran in 2000, she realized that Iran was in the throes of a huge change. The generation, or the under 30's, that grew up after the Islamic revolution and which made up nearly 2/3rds of the current population of Iran, seemed no longer willing to be slaves to Islamic ideology. Most of that change was internal and had occurred in their thinking, value or belief systems. There wasn't much about their outward appearance that could tell one that there was a monumental change going on. There was one exception, however, and that was in the way the women dressed---she found that they now wore veils of dazzling colors leaving their hair slightly exposed which was a huge no-no in the years immediately after the Islamic revolution. It is this colourful rebellion that prompted the author to call her book "Lipstick Jihad" which when translated literally would mean, 'the war of the lipstick'.
The veil was responsible for causing many emotional and physical problems but the biggest problem it seems to have caused was a social one---a burgeoning of clinics specializing in cosmetic surgery. Since only the face of a woman could be revealed, women were obsessed with having a near perfect one, which unfortunately meant lots of costmetic surgery, but especially rhinoplasty. Men, too, seemed to favor nose jobs (perhaps to achieve a more Western look and thus appearing less traditional), even the ones that didn't actually have a nose job, would use post-surgical bandages anyway, because they looked cool!
Realizing she was in the midst of a youth rebellion and wanting to get an authentic feel for what was happening, Moaveni decided to live like any young Iranian---she delved deep into Tehran's secret underground, she attended parties where young people did drugs, holidayed with them at ski resorts, attended youth movements and so on. What was most disturbing to her were the clandestine house parties that encouraged young men and women to mingle.
As she aptly points out in her book:
This personal memoir describes her life in Tehran between the years 2000 and 2002. When she arrived in Tehran in 2000, she realized that Iran was in the throes of a huge change. The generation, or the under 30's, that grew up after the Islamic revolution and which made up nearly 2/3rds of the current population of Iran, seemed no longer willing to be slaves to Islamic ideology. Most of that change was internal and had occurred in their thinking, value or belief systems. There wasn't much about their outward appearance that could tell one that there was a monumental change going on. There was one exception, however, and that was in the way the women dressed---she found that they now wore veils of dazzling colors leaving their hair slightly exposed which was a huge no-no in the years immediately after the Islamic revolution. It is this colourful rebellion that prompted the author to call her book "Lipstick Jihad" which when translated literally would mean, 'the war of the lipstick'.
The veil was responsible for causing many emotional and physical problems but the biggest problem it seems to have caused was a social one---a burgeoning of clinics specializing in cosmetic surgery. Since only the face of a woman could be revealed, women were obsessed with having a near perfect one, which unfortunately meant lots of costmetic surgery, but especially rhinoplasty. Men, too, seemed to favor nose jobs (perhaps to achieve a more Western look and thus appearing less traditional), even the ones that didn't actually have a nose job, would use post-surgical bandages anyway, because they looked cool!
Realizing she was in the midst of a youth rebellion and wanting to get an authentic feel for what was happening, Moaveni decided to live like any young Iranian---she delved deep into Tehran's secret underground, she attended parties where young people did drugs, holidayed with them at ski resorts, attended youth movements and so on. What was most disturbing to her were the clandestine house parties that encouraged young men and women to mingle.
As she aptly points out in her book:
"... the codes of the Islamic Republic banned young men and women from interacting casually together, attending soccer matches, stydying at the library or going to the movies together. As a result, when they met at these underground parties and were finally permitted a few hours in each other's company, they scarely knew what to do, or how to behave. They had never developed a sense of what normal behavior between the sexes looked like; not only were they lacking a template, they found the prospect of normality unsatisfying. Instead, they sought to contrast the oppressive morality outside with amplified decadence behind closed doors..."
So in reality, state-sanctioned sexual puritanism unwittingly had eroticised the society, keeping sex as much on people's minds as it was in the rhetoric of religious leaders. But even these very same religious teachers or the Mullahs couldn't help but push their carnal desires to the front. Many of them would resort to Shiite custom called 'signeh', a temporary marriage, very convenient for a man when he wants to sleep with a woman and yet not marry her. A 'signeh' could have a man and a woman married in as little as 15 seconds and the marriage could be annulled as soon as the carnal act was over, sometimes in less than 15 mins.
So clearly, the Islamic revolution was not acheiving all that it had set out do, if anything, it was turning Iran into a sick, depraved society. People were getting so disillusioned with Islam that many were turning away from Mecca and finding solace in in the Hindu mystic Sai Baba, Yoga, Sufism etc. ( Eastern spirituality, with its internally directed, pacifist sensibility, was the ideal antedote to the militant, invasive brand of Shiite Islam imposed by the regime) This is not how the reformists of the 1979 revolution had meant for the new Iran to be and they too were baffled that their utopian vision had produced an oppressive overly sexualized society. However, because most of the reformists came from an ultra-traditional class that held more conservative social values than the majority of the Iranians, they still refused to see that women's oppression was among the Islamic Republic's central problems.
As a journalist, this was a very exciting time for Moaveni to be in Iran, and she effortlessly combines commenting on the political goings-on of the country alongside her own personal journey. She reveals her private struggle to build a life in a country with medieval laws and customs, wholly unlike the sweet, pomegranate-tinted Iran of her imagination. Hers is the struggle of a young woman searching for a homeland that may not exist.
I took this review from LOTUS READS and felt like I had learned about the Iranian youth struggle to some extent, but then again, since most of the author's sources seem to have come from affluent urban families in Iran, it's hard for the reader to tell if these views are shared by the majority in Iran. Still, it is an authentic view and I am better off for having read it.
[P.S it would be great if you guys can post your views as to what you feel all about this BAN/ALERT]
1 comment:
Its kinda the same in out country too , though not so strict. One S.P in Bangalore told the girls in call centers not to wear provocative clothes at night, as this was the reason behind the rape attempts against them.
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