Bikini vs. Burka

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The Debauchery of American Womanhood: Bikini vs. Burka

By Henry Makow Ph.D.

September 18, 2002

 

On my wall, I have a picture of a Muslim woman shrouded in a burka.

 

Beside it is a picture of an American beauty contestant, wearing

nothing but a bikini.

 

One woman is totally hidden from the public; the other is totally

exposed. These two extremes say a great deal about the clash of so-

called "civilizations."

 

The role of woman is at the heart of any culture. Apart from

stealing Arab oil, the impending war in the Middle East is about

stripping Arabs of their religion and culture, exchanging the burka

for a bikini.

 

I am not an expert on the condition of Muslim women and I love

feminine beauty too much to advocate the burka here. But I am

defending some of the values that the burka represents for me.

 

For me, the burka represents a woman's consecration to her husband

and family. Only they see her.

 

It affirms the privacy, exclusivity and importance of the domestic

sphere.

 

The Muslim woman's focus is her home, the "nest" where her children

are born and reared. She is the "home" maker, the taproot that

sustains the spiritual life of the family, nurturing and training

her children, providing refuge and support to her husband.

 

In contrast, the bikinied American beauty queen struts practically

naked in front of millions on TV. A feminist, she belongs to

herself. In practice, paradoxically, she is public property. She

belongs to no one and everyone. She shops her body to the highest

bidder. She is auctioning herself all of the time.

 

In America, the cultural measure of a woman's value is her sex

appeal. (As this asset depreciates quickly, she is neurotically

obsessed with appearance and plagued by weight problems.)

 

As an adolescent, her role model is Britney Spears, a singer whose

act approximates a strip tease. From Britney, she learns that she

will be loved only if she gives sex. Thus, she learns to "hook up"

rather than to demand patient courtship and true love. As a result,

dozens of males know her before her husband does. She loses her

innocence, which is a part of her charm. She becomes hardened and

calculating. Unable to love, she is unfit to receive her husband's

seed.

 

The feminine personality is founded on the emotional relationship

between mother and baby. It is based on nurturing and self-

sacrifice. Masculine nature is founded on the relationship between

hunter and prey. It is based on aggression and reason.

 

Feminism teaches woman that feminine nature has resulted

in "oppression" and that she should convert to male behavior

instead. The result: a confused and aggressive woman with a large

chip on her shoulder, unfit to become a wife or mother.

 

This, of course, is the goal of the social engineers at the NWO:

undermine sexual identity and destroy the family, create social and

personal dysfunction, and reduce population. In the "brave new

world," women are not supposed to be "nest" makers, or progenitors

of the race. They are meant to be neutered autonomous creatures that

indulge in sex for physical pleasure, not for love or procreation.

 

At his press conference on Sunday, Donald Rumsfeld said that Iranian

women and youth were restive under the rule of the Mullahs. He

implied that the US would soon liberate them. To Britney Spears? To

low-rise "see-my-thong" pants? To the mutual masturbation that

passes for sexuality in America?

 

Parenthood is the pinnacle of human development. It is the stage

when we finally graduate from self-indulgence and become God's

surrogates: creating and nurturing new life. The New World Order

does not want us to reach this level of maturity. Pornography is the

substitute for marriage. We are to remain stunted: single, sex-

starved and self-obsessed.

 

We are not meant to have a permanent "private" life. We are to

remain lonely and isolated, dependent on consumer products for our

identity, in a state of perpetual courtship.

 

This is especially destructive for woman. Her sexual attraction is a

function of her fertility. As fertility declines, so does her sex

appeal. If a woman devotes her prime years to

becoming "independent," she is not likely to find a permanent mate.

 

Her long-term personal fulfillment and happiness lies in making

marriage and family her first priority.

 

Feminism is another cruel New World Order hoax that has debauched

American women and despoiled Western civilization. It has ruined

millions of lives and represents a lethal threat to Islam.

 

I am not advocating the burka but rather some of the values that it

represents, specifically a woman's consecration to her future

husband and family, and the modesty and dignity this entails.

 

The burka and the bikini represent two extremes. The answer lies

somewhere in the middle.

 

 

 

 

Henry Makow, is the inventor of the board game Scruples, and the

author of A Long Way to go for a Date. He received his Ph.D. in

English Literature from the University of Toronto. He welcomes your

feedback and ideas at henry.