under the burka

[AsMadAHatter]

@volf99 you're just an annoying, self righteous boy who thinks he knows everything. This video is not meant to attack anyone or anyone's culture! It's just portraying the horrible experiences some went through. Geez.

[AsMadAHatter]

@volf99 I doubt you've had acid thrown in your face, and I think you're only eleven. Both of you have valid points though, because while acid usually does greater physical damage, it can be helped greatly. The mental scars left by rape can never truly be cleansed, but usually do less harm physically.

[Buntzums]

Ban the Burka in the western world. It is out of it's element here.

[sarahazelnut]

I have worn a burka, i have friends that are muslim. All this video is doing is explaining the violence that is happening in other countries, the vagina monologues has other skits explaining other injustice towards women in other countries. IT IS NOT minimizing injustice of women in america...which in my eyes is equal Injustice.

[Volf99]

@sarahazelnut no, in America we do not throw acid in the face of women. Yes their are cases of rape for women wearing short skirt, but the difference is that one piece of clothing was forced upon the woman and one piece of clothing was something the woman chose(I'm not defending rape). So no, your wrong.

[sarahazelnut]

@Volf99 what am i wrong about? im sorry i left this like a month ago-i mean your right, its terrible that a government actually FORCES women to cover there bodies up...i dont know what your getting at, the only statement i made was that this video's purpose isnt to minimize the injustice of women... do you disagree with that?

[Volf99]

@sarahazelnut i'm stating that as bad as rape is, and I'm not trying to downplay it, the damage the acid does to your face is much more severe.

[JJ543jj]

@Volf99 Spoken by someone who has never been raped & does not what the hell's he's talking about!!

[Volf99]

@JJ543jj I doubt you have had acid thrown at your face and yet you feel you know what your talking about? That is very hypocritical!

[sunshyneplease]

I am going to be performing this piece in my college's production.:)

[XxMaRiAhxXxLyNnExX]

I want to dothis monologue for my drama final that coming up REALLY soon. Can anyone send my the script or a link because this monologue is the only one i cannot find.

[Illumirage]

The burqa is a physical symbol that women are owned, repressed, 2-nd class citizens in the Islamic world. Nothing else.

Yet the Western (and Eastern for that matter) feminist movement is mysteriously silent when it comes to Muslim womens' collective lack of freedom.

[stillwea]

i understand that this monologue portrays the horrors of the taliban and the evil they have inflicted on women, however it seems to put down Islam and the idea of arranged marriages, covering, etc. These are not bad things...i feel uncomfortable seeing this monologue performed by half naked women...perhaps a woman in hijab or just niqab not a burqa would be better... it hurts me to think that women find covering to be disgraceful when i find myself wondering if i would ever wear full niqab.

[Volf99]

@stillwea you don't need to wear a full niqab because the Koran says to be modest, but not that you must wear a niqsb and cover your face.

[kommmie]

wearing  burqa doesnt mean you cant take a bath

=p

[Rasi5t]

IMAGINE MY SIZE!

[khawlaBintAlazwar711]

IMAGINE how cheap you look like when you walk the streets exposing you bodies to men with sick metalities , lusting like dogs on a piece of meat , imagine how you feel when you are harrased or molested and then raped by street dogs , well thats something I wouldnt ever want to IMAGINE FOR THE SIMPLE FACT , that IM LIBERATED BY THE VEIL , a woman n with high self esteem , yes thats who I am :) taking the best of WOMAN as my example , MARY MOTHER OF JESUS peace be upon her :) Praise be to ALLAH

[bolobo]

@khawlaBintAlazwar711

You have a very low opinion of men, is that what they're like in your country? No wonder you have to hide. Perhaps you could move.

[Volf99]

@khawlaBintAlazwar711 get the hell out. You can just wear loose-fit caprice pants and a long sleeve shirt or sweat pants and a sweat shirt. You sound very full of yourself, but I doubt that your that pretty that I would be "lusting like dogs on a piece of meat".

[turboleaf]

Lol, she practically said. This monologue is not against the middle eastern culture, its just an attack a middle eastern culture.

[saramiles1]

WOMEN SHOULD STAND UP FOR THE HUMAN RIGHT OF NOT WEARING IT ,,, THAT IS THE POINT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AS WOMEN ARE HUMAN

[shannabanana11]

Eve Ensler has written a masterpeice.

[STPFFS]

Islamic dress represents legalised rape if not wearing a tent 'your asking for it'.

If a woman is raped under sharia law she has to provide 4 male witnesses because a woman's testimony in court is half that of a man. Nevermind the stupidity of having to provide witnesses.

Therefore a woman is considered guilty of adultery and they are imprisoned, flogged or stoned to death.

It's an enforced inhibition of movement it coincides with a behavior code that prevents women from the public domain.

[zhob1]

I really donot understand why people like u r forcing ur views on other Did Muslim forced any one of u 2 wear burka? Did Muslim forced u 2 not show all of ur body part? Did Muslim forced u 2 not make a woman as a show piece? Did Muslim forced u 2 not lay naked with whole family on beaches?u r free 2 do any thing u want.

why not u let the Muslim women free 2 choose what she want 2 wear. why u r forcing ur views on other r not u a modern fundamentalist, a different version of taliban, zeonist etc

[Volf99]

@zhob1 I'm a Jew but this has nothing to do with us. Quit being so quick to blame these things on us. Honestly, typically response when a person who is Muslim encounters something they don't like form "the West". Also, their are places in the middle east that force women to wear these things EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT MUSLIM!! So stfu with your anti-Jewish remarks!

[islamkillsAmericans]

Islam kills beauty.

[zhob1]

@islamkillsAmericans Islam preserve the beauty but you sell and humiliate the beauty by making it a show piece

[CeleryOfDissent]

I believe the word 'badass' applies to this video. Just. So. Awesome.

[LolitaX0X0]

PLEASE STOP AGAINST islam YOU DID'NT KNOW WHAT THAT MEAN FOR US AS MUSLIMS

[TwoEyesX]

A lot of these traditions seem to come straight from the Arabian / Sahara deserts - for ex - desert nomads see it as offensive to laugh with your mouth showing so men cover their mouths when laughing

And the burqa - the desert sand is so fine - it ends up in the bread & grinds the teeth down. Where our houses r covered in dust - houses there r covered in fine sand

Here nomadic men cover their faces - but once they leave the desert - only the women are required to keep wearing the face covering

[insaneforstuff254]

This monologue is telling some of the horrors perpetrated against women in many middle eastern countries; how women in some countries often don't have a choice on how to live their life.

In my opinion, it's against injustice, not on any certain culture.

My views on the burka:

Maybe the burka holds meaningful cultural significance to women WHO CHOOSE to wear it.

But women should have A CHOICE to wear it or not and still be protected by law, which many aren't.

That's what the vid's about.

[ceridwengwyon]

@insaneforstuff254 That's the whole point really. Freedom of choice. Women are equals to men in the sense that we are also human, we're not less nor more than they are. If they have the choice, the freedom of going dressing whatever they want, so should we. Women who want to wear burkas, hijabs, should wear them if they think it's important, if it has a meaning for them, not because their arranged husbands make them wear them, and be punished if they don't want to. that'll will never be right.

[shesrightyo]

why dont these people get a life!!!!

they need to look at their black teen girls and mexican teen girls and white teen girls and figure out whats their issues with their bodies and teach them to be happy and have honor.

stop worrying about ONE countries women fashionable outer cloak!and STOP INVADING MUSLIM COUNTRIES AND TRYING TO BREAK UP THEIR HOMES AND FAMILIES!!!

subhanAllah!

[okami37]

It's not just one. It's any country where women are considered objects more than human beings. Where women are raped and then punished for being victims. Where rape is used as a weapon. This production deals with issues far beyond this one and promotes finding your voice as a woman. And that also means speaking up for women who have no voice.

[InsideMyMind]

So true! Just look into the invisible soldiers and their actions. The attackers are victums too. They don't even know the true horrible effects of their actions, they're brain washed. Thanks commenting on this. You brought out a great point that is sadly missed by some.

[InsideMyMind]

No one is attacking anyone or breaking up homes. If not wearing a burka is breaking a home, then it was never that to begin with. This is to educate. If you had eveer seen monologs, you would have learned that every race & culture and sub culture have a voice about being confident about their true natural defence... Get off of defence & move QUCIKLY to an open mind. If you don't like what you see, then close your eyes & stay in darkness w/o knowledge. I'm sorry, but it's the truth of the matter.

[fatima130784]

Anyone wishing to understand Islam must first separate the religion from the cultural norms and style of a society

[paddy6062]

@fatima130784 muslims say they wear it because of their religion..not culture..thats the only way to force it onto the west..glad that some do not accept that and have banned it!!!

[Lavenderrose73]

...This one would have been one I could sympathize with. My heart breaks for women who are treated so brutally.

[Lavenderrose73]

Dang, a year before I came out here from Arkansas! (actually 18 months from about the time this would have been performed). I watched "The Vagina Monologues" for the first time at the Union just last February. Some of them I could sympathize with (I Was in the Room, My Vagina Was a Village, the introduction and other various facts throughout the performance), but for others, only once was plenty (The Woman Who Liked..." "The Little Coochie Snorcher...").

[132ollie231]

Excellent choice of music in the background. Metallica. :)

[umaralansari]

Don't be slaves to liberalism and "freedom", be friends to truth.

[InsideMyMind]

Slaves?? What are you talking about? Liberalism? If you are living in the U.S. everything is driven by a Purtainical way of thinking. And freedom is justice. Therefore, those who are inslaved by justice, are in fact deserving of it, and have earned their punishment.

You might consider explaining yourself more thoughly or rephrasing your comment. I can't believe this is what you really mean.

[umaralansari]

William Gladstone, four-time Prime Minister of Great Britain, is famous for telling the English Parliament: "As long as this Quran exists, Europe will never be able to conquer the Islamic East." Similarly, the French Colonial Governor of Algeria said, on the occasion of one hundred years of French occupation of Algeria: "It is a must to remove the Arabic Quran from their presence and to remove the Arabic language from their tongues in order for us to have victory over them."

[umaralansari]

History. It has been the practice of Western imperialists (going back to the 19th c.) keen on imposing their governance on muslim lands, to break up muslim societies...

Strategy: destroy Islam in order to divide and rule... Tactics: destroy the madrassah, where muslims learn the Qur'an and their faith; legislate removal of women's outer dress; convert the local elites to Western "values" (send their kids to Western schools/ unis etc).

It has never been about "freedom", it's all about control.

[foxycleopatra397]

what does islam have to do with a society that degrades women?....

[umaralansari]

Yes, the Taliban were harsh, yes women had to cover their faces, but hey, guess what...

Today, the Taliban have been pushed back, yet women STILL wear burqahs as before!

Another interesting fact... The wonderful, liberal freedom-loving US/ UK are allied to the very men who were busy raping and pillaging before the Taliban established order! These rapists ended up in the US/UK supported Afghan government!

See the Afghan women's association website for details at rawa dot o rg if you dare!

[umaralansari]

In point of fact, the Taliban emerged into a situation of chaos in post-Soviet-invasion Afghanistan, where so-called 'mujahideen' - the guys trained, funded and armed by the West - were killing one another, raiding each other's lands and towns and using mass rape as a means of control. No woman was safe, especially the good-looking ones...

The Taliban established order in 95% of Afghanistan and stopped the mass sexual abuse. (They also ended poppy production for which the US gave them $43m.)

[umaralansari]

This is a cultural practice in SE Asia that pre-dates Islam, although this veiling business took off in a big way with Western colonial-imperialism, when Asians were keen to protect them womenfolk from sex-starved colonials...

My grandmother, decades ago in India, sometimes wore a burqah, by choice, when out. This didn't make her inferior or a "walking corpse". She was one of the most alive, content and honoured of people...

[aqakiler]

feminists, hahahahha

[SerenityArlysis2]

islam might be good for some women, but it should always be A CHOICE.

[deeljojo]

you are so Pathetic , you don't know how Muslim Women lives or anything , We are the Better in everything you ..

Islam is the best :)

[Somayyah91]

yepp, I am one of the them - alhamdulellah!!!

[phazedreality818]

yes this video isnt that great, but it does have some good points. taliban ruled Afghanistan's treatment of women isnt islamic. & this video isnt criticizing islam. its talking about how the taliban treat their women.  maybe they should have asked women wearing burkas if they feel trapped by the burka? ive met many that say they feel liberated by it. and some that wantto just wear the hijab. the title should have been something else. and the ending was very retarded & the comment on smell 2

[socstu]

the monologue of ignorance, ideology at its best. Biased bullshit. Imposing "imaginations" on the pluralistic experience and life choices of the "other" women around the globe.

Imagine having a world where everyone wasn't so brainwashed.

[helema23]

ok what was done here wasa monologue of political force in the middle east not of islam and some women atre beautiful in niqaab (shows the eyes) i say imagine a world where we are all truly free to wear what we pelase without judgement!!! i do not like being judged for my hijab as i am daily. imagine a world where a woman isnt forced to show her body to get a job in many of the high positions. imagine a world where a woman is taken on her mind and not her apperance!! just imagine....

[bkyrdwtch]

Have you ever worn the hijab? I have. Do you have Muslim friends? I do. This video is judgemental because it didn't say anything 'good'. Not all muslim men smell. Not all females wore a full burka. The characters are sad and depressing and only continue the misconception of the traditions of the middle east.

Get off of your high and mighty horse. Maybe go there.

I did.

[stephypoo2341]

holy cow! no reason to take offense over a stupid video. we only did what was scripted. the words the actresses are speaking are what Eve Ensler wrote herself after spending time in a burka while in Afghanistan. So she was not passing judgment...she was righting first hand what she experienced. of course not ALL Muslim women experience this....but some do and that is what this scene is for. Those women in parts of the middle east who get acid thrown in their face for reading. so calm down

[PinkPearl691]

@stephypoo2341 Actually Arabia is called and was calld the land of "Fragrance",everything said here was wrong and despicable! Muslim men would go to war over their women, your men pass you around like a rolled up blunt!

[mmedefarge]

@bkyrdwtch Comparing a hijab to a burqa is like comparing apples & oranges. One is just a headscarf the other covers your whole face & your entire body. Most people know what it's like to wear a head covering & scarf which cannot begin to compare to having your vision & breathing occluded & being swathed in voluminous layers of material from head to foot. It is as though they are already in their shrouds while still alive.

[sunshyneplease]

@bkyrdwtch Maybe you should know what you're talking about before you jump on something. Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" is a moving piece that stands for women of all different cultures and what they have been through. It's not meant to attack Muslim men for smelling. Hahaha. Oh and Eve Ensler went there and talked to women from there.

[somervillearron]

@bkyrdwtch your really full of urself

[Volf99]

@somervillearron no, they are "really" offended by this depiction of Muslim people.

[Amarianee]

@bkyrdwtch Eve Ensler wrote this monologue and added it herself, after her visit to Afghanistan, and interview with many brave women. This monologue is meant to represent those women she met, and their stories. It has nothing to do with ALL Muslim men and women. So how about you get off YOUR high horse, and do some research before attacking someone for participating in a women's empowerment movement.

[PinkPearl691]

@bkyrdwtch I couldnt get passed the first second? Muslims are beyond clean! they pray 5 times a day, before prayer they have to perform ablution! so they wash 5 times a day..AND take baths/showers! plus they dont wipe with a tissue paper, they use water and soap! thats why in muslim househols u find a jug to clean their privates with~ arabia was known as the land of fragrances, all these "designer" perfumes are madeup of ingrediants found in the middle east. Theyre the cleanet people!

[bkyrdwtch]

Imagine.... someone else shoving their beliefs down your throat. imagine people modking what you know in your hear is your God's will. imagine people that have never been to your home passing judgement on you and having the nerve to know how you think.

your little mono' is pure arrogance!

[guddo0]

Yew cudve just said, Imagine Islam -_-

[millerr17]

It's not passing judgment, maybe you should listen more carefully to the beginning before YOU pass judgment.

They aren't mocking anything.

[esurette]

I have imagined people shoving their beliefs down my throat, mocking my understanding of the divine, and passing judgment on me having never been to my home--these include politically correct liberals and Wahabists