UnVeiling the Truth

Visual.....streets of Terhan, Iran. Lots of people milling around. More women than men. From a western point-of-view a perfectly normal day. All the ladies are lookin' mighty fine in their finery......

Cut to the same street only all the women are wearing Burk-as. Ah, the difference in cultures.

Let me explain why I spoke so high and mighty in my last blog about emotion. Because the world has gone freakin' crazy over emotion. Let’s take American Idol for instance. Opps, I’ll have to start and Entertainment Blog for that….back on subject.  Why is there all this strife, hate, killing and war in the Middle-East and Asia? The explanation is easier than you think!

Let me get straight to the point. It's about the difference in their women and our women. Who those women are and the way they are treated by men, in general. If someone told you that your woman's rights were being taken away, would you be willing to die for that belief? This of course is based on which side of the political spectrum you reside. Their women, and only a few of them know the pleasures of a western way of life and the utter freedom it brings with it is a by-product of the "right to choose", particularly what you buy.

Some people say (egad, that is such an ubiquitous phrase, where have I heard it before?) that is the causality for these so called Islamic wars. The west and all of  its corporate conglomerates have imagery of women and our concept of what fashion sees as their perception of the perfect woman. I'm sure some of my female friends would agree that particular perception is as false as believing in the perfect man. Neither exist.

That said, then does all this boil down to a belief in freedom of choice or religion? Somewhere in their personal Islamic belief system is the precept of believing that women are inferior or, at least, not as smart, wise or equal, just because their female. That's it's okay to treat them any way your male heart desires. This is the ultimate version of Chauvinism. It is their belief. Is it their right to die for it? You bet. Because trying to make their women like ours, is betraying their religious beliefs. The real definition here is "Islam against Corporate America". Corporate America really wants that huge untapped market place to plunder as they have plundered all others and here’s one that might actually have oil and money. Get those women out of those Burk-as and into the fashion they're pushing at the moment. Someone else has a design on Islam as a place or market, but who’s going to get there first is the question.

Islam sees this westernization a moral affront to their religion and beliefs. One of those beliefs is the way they can treat their women. But then, how much do you let your religion stroke the beliefs of your politics. If you do, then you become a minority radical of that belief.

Islam literally means "submission (to God)." Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable and that the purpose of life is to worship God. I think life has a more profound meaning than that but that could be just me. Here's the part that bothers me the most. Of the three major religions, Christian, Muslim and Jew, all three of them actually worship the SAME God. The God of Abraham is worshiped by all three. It's like saying "my God is better than your God but they're the same God". What? Talk about nonsense. So you see, our differences aren't about religion or God, our differences are about application of which religion you emotionally believe is real. What makes it crazy is that both sides are dying and fighting over the realm of the SAME God and how that God wants you to treat your woman.

I think John Lennon put it the best....Imagine. Insert lyrics here.