Eine Kleine Nachtmusik...
At the same time that I'm really, really unreligious and see religion being a huge contributing factor to many problems in the world, I also see that people are very fast to put down anyone who doesn't fit in and I appreciate standing with people who have ideas and culture and are sticking to them even though it may cause them some trouble. This often members of minority religions.
I was thinking about the last post I made and about exactly what the idea of being a minority in a society means. What does it feel like to have to endelssly defend yourself from the overwhelming, and uninformed prejudices of majority society? Should your life be dictated by the opinions and desires of a bunch of people who know nothing about you?
Should a majority of people actually vote to see if they think there should be Gay marriage or not when it really effects them so slightly while it may mean so much to the couple wanting to get married?
Of course the young Muslim girl, Asmahan Mansour, reacted protectively and with strong defiance when ordered by the Ref to remove her Hijab during a soccer game. She is in a society where every day Muslims are under attack. This is not an exaggeration in any way. Some Muslim women I know are under constant verbal attack downtown from idiotic Winnipeggers.The national and local papers are constantly questioning their humanity and character. Muslim people have many differing ideas, and many outlooks. But, of course half the people never bother to find out what those might be.
In the same way it's very powerful for a woman in Afghanistan to go against what she is told and against that majority when she wants to live life without a burqa. Or a woman in North America who does not want to conform to this cuultures standards.
Perhaps it's the semi-imagined persecution I felt I was enduring as a young headbanger on the streets of Regina, but the idea of people being who they are and feeling a sense of liberty is very powerful to me. We should all be on the lookout for how our society is molding our opinions and what it makes us accept or reject.
very often wonder why Muslims are constantly being portrayed as war lovers when it is really us attacking Muslim countries endlessly. Actually, make that us attacking every country endlessly. In fact North american citizens are following some of the most serious war makers of all time right into oblivion.
Anyway... get my drift?
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