I searched upon some blogs, to get more insight of people around the blogworld, their thinkings, notions of the world we live in, in respect to women of color, issues and barriers faced, sexuality/gender issues. I found a blog titled "Muslims Raping Muslim Women," and upon reading this, reminded me so much of a reading in our class from Josephine Negrete Mendez "Las Hijas De Juan," where women in certain cultures have to live under the male domination in patriarchical societies. In this blog, it mentions muslim women hiding rapes in honor and for taboo reasons. Women don't report attacks because they are afraid to tell about it to "lose face" for their fathers and family.
"Muslims have a saying: Keep your father's face clean... do only what your father can be proud of" http://www.peres-fondateurs.com/~freedom/?p=255 .
In regards to getting help, “In Muslim families there can be a conception that the state is a foreign element. the state shall not deal with inspection, help, care etc. At the same time we have to deal with a violating and shameful act in the community where family loyalty is the basic premise. Women’s actions affect the family’s honor and therefore she wishes probably to conceal it.” When I read that, I thought "woah.. what is that?" I understand that women who are brought up in a family with strong traditions/culture face many standards and rules. It is so difficult and unfair women have to be subjected to "respecting" their family, by self-sacrificing themselves. "Some women believe that rape is part of man's acceptable rights" as the blog reports. This is some very deep stuff. And that those who dress with less clothing are asking to get raped, it's not at the fault of the attacker. Why is it that the ones who take our such crimes have reasons to do it at the fault of the women? It does not make sense. Would anyone like to comment?
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I do not pretend to be a sociologist, but it is quite obvious that in strong patriarchal societies (such as the Muslim world, for example) men make rules to keep women down. Almost everything bad that happens to a woman is her fault, as a logical conclusion of that society's rules and moral attitudes.
The results of such laws and customs is that (as can be seen in this 2002 United Nations Development Programme) the society then becomes repressive to all, becomes backward and remains poor. So... who really should be blamed?.
The report written in 2002 by Arab scholars,` asks a very incisive question: How can a society prosper when it fully atrophies half of its population? In other words... elevating the status of women, regarding and treating them as full fledged human beings with equal rights and opportunities benefits society as a whole. The resulting prosperity makes life better for both men and women!
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