Beberapa hari lepas, kecoh pasal poll in Australia/WA tentang banning of hijab in public school. Baca:
- theage.com.au: Bishop Backs Muslim Headscarf Ban
- theage.com.au: Previous poll result- School Attire Should Muslim Headscarves be Banned at Public School
- ninemsn.com.au: Previous poll result- Tuesday, 30 August 2005
And now, German is joining the list. Baca: German State to Ban Teachers From Wearing Hijab
Yesterday and this week we had lecture and debate session about Indigenous people & 'Human Rights'. And one can see how much prejudice, racism and discrimination are happening at the moment, and one example that was being given was the issue of banning the headscarves that was being talked about on the net and television.
Touching on the declaration of Human Rights that the UN has put upon, it was shown how some signatory countries still violated and act contradictory to what has been proposed... i.e on Aboriginal issues. And one of my classmates boldly asked if the UN has ever had any power at all, seeing how the US invaded Iraq not too long ago?
Images... when something has been potrayed falsely, and this is passed on to the next generation, then there'll issue of racism. Nurses refused to treat Indigenous people because they assumed these people are trying to rip off the Government's money, a lady was referred to psychiatric ward due to her ethnicity when she actually had a condition, and students afraid to take patients' history just because they were Aboriginies. False images has been casted, hence even medical professionals, who weren't even supposed to have any descrimination look at them differently.
And now the image of the purity of headscarf is trying to be ripped apart; saying it has association with terrorism and such! I'm disgusted and I can feel anger rising up everytime these issues are risen. Oh, how people try to act all-mighty, feeling superior and say they have freedom to do this and that. Yet at the same time, they contradict themselves, choosing whatever kind of freedom they think would be the best for them and imposing the opposite & oppressing the others... They lie in their own fears!
And no one wants to admit that the Law that the Lord has put upon us is the best practice... How sad...
p.s- Turned on the t.v before falling asleep on the couch the other night... and saw the news about Hurricane Katrina in the US... So, another storm striking there? Baca:
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