Um Ibrahim
Alhamdulilah :)
:salam2:
How I wish Muslim leaders were as brave and honest as this lady, who I don't think is even Muslim. May Allah guide her to Islam if she's not Muslim yet. Make du'a dear Muslims for non-Muslims who speak up for justice and peace.
2005 International Women’s Day Address to the European Parliament
by Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan
INTRODUCTION:
Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit¡¯s speech made on International Women¡¯s Day 2005 in Strasbourg.
Please listen to the words of a bereaved mother, whose daughter fell victim to a vicious, indiscriminating terrorist attack. I wish her words will enter the hearts of all peace seekers in our troubled and divided world.
Professor Avraham Oz
Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature
University of Haifa
WOMEN
by Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Thank you for inviting me to this today. It is always an honour and a pleasure to be here, among you (at the European Parliament).
However, I must admit I believe you should have invited a Palestinian woman at my stead, because the women who suffer most from violence in my county are the Palestinian women. And I would like to dedicate my speech to Miriam Raban and her husband Kamal, from Bet Lahiya in the Gaza strip, whose five small children were killed by Israeli soldiers while picking strawberries at the family’s strawberry field. No one will ever stand trial for this murder.
When I asked the people who invited me here why didn’t they invite a Palestinian woman, the answer was that it would make the discussion too localized.
I don’t know what is non-localized violence. Racism and discrimination may be theoretical concepts and universal phenomena but their impact is always local, and real. Pain is local, humiliation, sexual abuse, torture and death, are all very local, and so are the scars.
It is true, unfortunately, that the local violence inflicted on Palestinian women by the government of Israel and the Israeli army, has expanded around the globe, In fact, state violence and army violence, individual and collective violence, are the lot of Muslim women today, not only in Palestine but wherever the enlightened western world is setting its big imperialistic foot. It is violence which is hardly ever addressed and which is half-heartedly condoned by most people in Europe and in the USA.
This is because the so-called free world is afraid of the Muslim womb.
It is true, unfortunately, that the local violence inflicted on Palestinian women by the government of Israel and the Israeli army has expanded around the globe. In fact state violence and army violence, individual and collective violence, are the lot of Muslim women today, not only in Palestine but wherever the enlightened western world is setting its big imperialistic foot.
It is violence which is hardly ever addressed and which is halfheartedly condoned by most people in Europe and in the United States of America.
To read the rest of the speech, here's the link: http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/women/
How I wish Muslim leaders were as brave and honest as this lady, who I don't think is even Muslim. May Allah guide her to Islam if she's not Muslim yet. Make du'a dear Muslims for non-Muslims who speak up for justice and peace.
2005 International Women’s Day Address to the European Parliament
by Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan
INTRODUCTION:
Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit¡¯s speech made on International Women¡¯s Day 2005 in Strasbourg.
Please listen to the words of a bereaved mother, whose daughter fell victim to a vicious, indiscriminating terrorist attack. I wish her words will enter the hearts of all peace seekers in our troubled and divided world.
Professor Avraham Oz
Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature
University of Haifa
WOMEN
by Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Thank you for inviting me to this today. It is always an honour and a pleasure to be here, among you (at the European Parliament).
However, I must admit I believe you should have invited a Palestinian woman at my stead, because the women who suffer most from violence in my county are the Palestinian women. And I would like to dedicate my speech to Miriam Raban and her husband Kamal, from Bet Lahiya in the Gaza strip, whose five small children were killed by Israeli soldiers while picking strawberries at the family’s strawberry field. No one will ever stand trial for this murder.
When I asked the people who invited me here why didn’t they invite a Palestinian woman, the answer was that it would make the discussion too localized.
I don’t know what is non-localized violence. Racism and discrimination may be theoretical concepts and universal phenomena but their impact is always local, and real. Pain is local, humiliation, sexual abuse, torture and death, are all very local, and so are the scars.
It is true, unfortunately, that the local violence inflicted on Palestinian women by the government of Israel and the Israeli army, has expanded around the globe, In fact, state violence and army violence, individual and collective violence, are the lot of Muslim women today, not only in Palestine but wherever the enlightened western world is setting its big imperialistic foot. It is violence which is hardly ever addressed and which is half-heartedly condoned by most people in Europe and in the USA.
This is because the so-called free world is afraid of the Muslim womb.
It is true, unfortunately, that the local violence inflicted on Palestinian women by the government of Israel and the Israeli army has expanded around the globe. In fact state violence and army violence, individual and collective violence, are the lot of Muslim women today, not only in Palestine but wherever the enlightened western world is setting its big imperialistic foot.
It is violence which is hardly ever addressed and which is halfheartedly condoned by most people in Europe and in the United States of America.
To read the rest of the speech, here's the link: http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/women/
