Hypocrisy

A couple months back I was walking the dyke with my dog and taking pictures and I encountered the first burka? and niqab I have ever seen in BC, it was as I found out quite a personal journey the husband started talking to me about my dog and we walked and had a conversation about Saudi Arabia and his impressions of Canada, his wife and child walked 10 paces behind us and never tried join the conversation once, I found myself feeling very sorry for this lady and more than a little guilty myself for feeling I was somehow enabling this strange reality of subjugation and disrespect if not outright misogymy, but the strangest outcome of this experience was I came to pity this father and husband, because I realized that even if he had 100 wives he would never be friends with any of his wives, he couldn’t go to the gym and work out with his wife or the beach or cycling or jogging, running etc etc, probably not even have a stimulating conversation as most are not allowed to get a education, in other words he could never be friends with this woman who was his chattel and mother of his children, they were not equal partner in this relationship, she could never be his friend. I came away from this experience throughly disgusted by this personal walking prison the burka and niqab. Having said that I have to say I don’t think it is Canadians right to tell women what they can or can’t wear, by our laws it is legal for them to wear these oppressive statements, and by those same laws their children will get an education, whether they like it or not. There is another way to look at this situation I grew up in East Vancouver and there were a lot of Italians and the first generation women wore traditional shawls and head scarfs, but none of the second or third generation women wore these garments, they adapted to the style of their new home, I think it has always been the same it is hard for first generation immigrants to adapt to a new culture especially when they were chased out of their homeland and forced to immigrate to a new strange way of life, of course it is hard to give up everything that they know. This whole issue is a non-issue bought about by a desperate Herr Harper to distract Canadians from his abysmal record of lies, corruption and economic failure and gunboat diplomacy most of these women will not ever have a drivers licence but if they do it will have thier picture on it just like you and me but it will be done discreetly with respect for their beliefs, they are not getting away with anything and this is just Muslim religion baiting by a course and corrupt dictator in a feeble attempt to cling to power at any cost. This is really the ultimate hypocrisy when on the one hand Herr Harper further oppresses and spreads hate and misogymy against already brutally oppressed and marginalized Muslim women for the way they dress and on the other hand befriending and supporting one of the most brutal undemocratic theocracies in the world, a country that not only oppresses all women and pro-democracy champions but is easily one of the biggest supporters of terrorism in the world, supporting and financing the likes of Al Qaeda and ISIS, fighting Yemen who is fighting Al Qaeda and wanting the destruction of Iran who is also fighting ISIS, and of coarse the destruction of Israel, not to mention reportedly financing 9/11 and the home of 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorists, a country that regulatory beheads men, women, cuts of limbs, stones people to death, kills people with a thousand lashes and crucifies people then hangs different parts around the town, an apt description of cruel and unusual punishment if I ever heard, a truly brutal theocratic Monarchy guilty of horrific crimes, and Herr Harper sells them military equipment to further brutalize it’s population and neighbours. Once again Harper demonstrats his ignorance about what Canada and Canadians are all about, you don’t take away someones lawful rights and freedoms to prove how much you cherish freedom. The hypocrisy defies logic.