The Veil: Sarkozy is right

Written by Kazi Mahmood

For once and for all, lets do the most outright thing here. Rendons a Cesar ce qui appartient a Cesar. (In english - Belongs to Ceasar what is appropriate for Ceasar). And with this I say that Sarkozy, Nicolas French President is right in his stand on the Muslim veil or Burqah and even Jubah for that matter. He is right in when he made a speech in the French Parliament on Monday 22 June 2009 in which he reiterates that the "Islamic burka (abaya) is not welcomed in France." Note that this is not the first time a French top gun make such a statement and it is now with very little surprise that many Muslims within and outside France take such statements. He is right because he was talking about France in the auguste French Parliament and in front of French law makers and other freedom right 'fighers' of European origin. Yes they are right fighters too. And many Muslims are wrong in condemning Sarkozy. Not totally, absolutely wrong but they are wrong in criticizing him and accusing him of 'anti-semitism' against Islam. No one expects Sarkozy, a man from a Jewish mother, to be fair to Islam and Muslims. If someone expected this guy to be fair to Muslims on Islamic issues and to state that the abaya is to be allowed in France and on France streets, then that person would have been naive. I admire though the Muslims who take position against people like Sarkozy when he addresses Islamic issues. For the issue of the scarf is an Islamic issue not a Muslim one alone. There is a clear distinction that is to be made between the things that are 'Islamic' and the things that are 'Muslim'. That we will explain in another posting. My dear friend and brother YB Zulkifli Nordin from the Party Keadilaan Rakyat (PKR) said he is not surprised at the statement by Sarkozy. He added that such a statement coming from 'a person the like of Sarkozy, a person who felt so proud and honored that his wife's nude photo were sold to the highest bidder; a person who was so impressed to have as a wife a women who spread her leg totally naked and splashed centrepage of nude magazine Penthouse.' Carla Bruni Sarkozy the Tramp woman in nude...thats a Sarkozy affiar! Though I understand and admire my brother Zulkifli on this, I think we should not go into mud-slinging and into personal attacks. Sarkozy is a french liberal - an extremist liberal - and is allowed to believe that naked wives are prizes that should not be taken away from him. He also believe that 'in France' where he President for that matter, no women should be allowed to walk in dresses that make them 'subservient' and 'deprives them of their identity'. The President said in France, 'We cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind netting, cut off from all social life, deprived of identity.' and that is fine with me. He is talking about France. France is not a Muslim state and will not be a Muslim state as long as there are people like Sarkozy as President. The French people, once docile and anti-American in their thinking has shifted their views and became pro-George - What the Fuck - Bush and voted in as President of France Nichola - Pervert - Sarkozy. What do you expect? Sarkozy to wear the Abaya? For the Muslims, and here my brother Zulkifli Nordin is right and is examplary, the ladies must cover themselves in dignity. Even the ruling Malay party in Malaysia, deemed a socialist entity by the Islamic party spirirual leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat, abides by the rule that women must be covered in dignity and in respect to Allah. This is in Malaysia not in France where Sarkozy the pervert is in power and accepts all kind of nude women, strolling in shopping centres and carrying their men and babies behind them with Sarkozy dutifully following his new wife too in that culture. It is the French culture that speaks and it is not a Muslim President who spoke in the French Parliament. For once let Sarkozy has his way in his own country but let us also promise ourselves that if Sarkozy were to attack Muslims outside France and were to promote such nudist cultures that his wife follows and he follows alongside Italian Premier Berlusconi, then it will be war. "And may I warn you Mr. Sarkozy, if you were ever to touch any of the Muslim women in your damn country, oppressing and harassing them and forcing them to live the nomadic and barbaric life that you so adore; then we Muslim will consider that as an act of war on Muslim and shall be responded accordingly," said Zulkifli Bin Noordin on Wednesday 24 June. To me, the war starts (cultural war) against the French nudists and the European and white masters anti-Islamic cultural standing if they start to point out that Malaysia or Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations should let their women walk naked with Sarkozy in the streets of Kuala Lumpur or Jeddah. That is going to be war waged by all Muslims not only by Kazi Mahmood or Zulkifli Nordin. But as long as they are within their borders in their nations, let them be. Live and let others live!