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[Interview] Nawal el Saadawi: The veils in our society

Keltoum | 21.10.2005 16:46 | Gender | Globalisation | Social Struggles

Nawal El Saadawi is a novelist, a psychiatrist and a writer, is well known both in the Arab countries and in many other parts of the world. Her novels and books on the situation of women in Egyptian and Arab society have had a deep effect on successive generations of young women.

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Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi


"Glocal struggle and globalisation from below that's what we need ..."

"The whole discussion about the veil is false. Neo-colonial power use religion to justify injustice ..."

"I only believe in a God if he's justice, freedom and love ..."

"God doesn't come out of the printing machine ..."

Nawal el Saadawi speaks out ...




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amputation of the imagination

21.10.2005 18:10

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Much later I realized that a women whose imagination has been amputated is like a women whose clitoris has been cut off with a razor, who has been circumcised though I feel that circumcision of the imagination is much more harmful, much more cruel than physical circumcision, because then a women is deprived of the ability to feel, and see the corruption of her self and others, of the ability to create and to experience the pleasure more acute, more wonderful, than that of food or sex, or anything else.
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From her site (link in main article).

Are you aware of the books of Nancy Friday on female sexuality and imagination. From next year, many of the ideas contained within her books (and derived from correspondence with real women), will lead to a THREE YEAR PRISON SENTENCE, if imagined in pictures or video. Blair, under mechanisms of the UK's monolithic orwellian censor OFCOM, is waging war on ADULT SEXUAL FETISH. For the first time in the history of the UK (and unique in modern civilisation), British citizens are going to be sent to prison for long periods, and placed on the Sex Offenders register, for possessing images made by consenting adults, showing various acts of sexual fetish.

OFCOM proudly declares that, for the first time in history, they are going to create a whole new criminal offence where none existed before, and make a conserted effort to export this offence to other nations.

It should be noticed that in those nations that permit the sale of all sexual imagery (EXCLUDING
CHILD ABUSE), ACTUAL sex crimes occur at the lowest rates. "Amputating the Imagination" is a known method to boost the rate of ACTUAL sex offenses, and societies with high rates of crime or fear of crime are well understood to favour dictatorial leadership.

It should also be noted that OFCOM is working closely with Alberto Gonzales the architect of the US govenment program of torture as a standard method of information gathering. Gonzales, Attorney General for Bush, has instructed the FBI to make sexual fetish prosecutions top priority, although in the states the constitution will NOT allow this to include possession. The FBI has already started raiding fetish material producers in the 'weaker' states, including sites that ONLY deal in the written word.

And for Blair's goons that suggest we shouldn't worry about Blair, cos Scotland does things differently, the Scottish parliament is planning to SIMULTANEOUSLY introduce the same new laws there. The so-called Scottish parliament is a sham, although it amazes me that anyone is retarded enough to thing otherwise.

These hideously oppressive laws have intentions far beyond sexual fetish. They provide a mechanism for a massively increased rate of police raids, and computer confiscation (under the fig-leaf of looking for pictures of consenting adults in sexual acts). They allow the state to increase its control through the extensive use of blackmail (see homosexuality and the Nazis). They also allow the control of images and words arising from the crimes in Blair's various warzones. The possession of evidence of the atrocities occuring in Iraq, Chechnya, Afghanistan, etc will be considered a serious criminal offence under the new laws, and lead to the destruction of the computer, closing down of the site, and imprisonment of the individual.

Be warned- to get the public to agree to these new laws, the BBC and the press plan an extensive campaign to equate images of consenting adults involved in sexual fetish activities with images of CHILD ABUSE. Expect to see the first elements of this propaganda drive just after Xmas.


twilight


Incredible. Litterally.

21.10.2005 19:28

Twilight

Another posting long on vitriol and short on supporting evidence. Let's look at what you're actually saying:

1. OFCOM is a censor directly comparable to Orwell's Big Brother

2. OFCOM is working closely with US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

3. This is with the intention of making photographs of sexual fetishist acts illegal

4. And this is in order that Blair can use them to blackmail/threaten people.

5. It will also be used to prevent images from warzones being aired.

I put it to you, Twilight, that this is no more than a personal opinion. You have no evidence, links, or proof to back them up. If you can put up evidence then do so; otherwise stop spamming this site.

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