[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Europe: Veiling statues to reinforce liberal values

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Europe: Veiling statues to reinforce liberal values
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1204911042.shtml


   [1]veiled_statue 

   From Germany's [2]Veiled Statues

     Throughout the night on 6th of March we have successfully continued
     our statue veiling campaign. With this reappearing action, we want
     to inspire the public to discussion concerning Islamisation and
     associated taboo subjects. By veiling statues in Berlin,
     Braunschweig, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Helsinki, Moscow, Tampere, and
     Turku, we have expanded our activities to Germany, Finland and
     Russia within six months.

     The aim of the campaign is to refer to the creeping Islamisation
     endangering the European idea of UNITY IN DIVERSITY and other
     similar cultural achievements of the liberal thinking world.
     Particularly, the phenomenom that Muslim women wear increasingly
     Burqa or headscarfs, is a visible expression of the challenge and
     threat to our liberal societies with their values such as women´s
     rights, democracy, liberal and secular thinking...

     ...We need to consider the Human Rights Charta to be accomplished
     in its totality everywhere in the world. Neither the Quran nor the
     Sharia can be seriously put on the same level with the Universal
     Declaration of Human Rights of the UN.

   It's a good idea, but it might be more effective if they compared the
   effects and actions based on our civil laws to the effects and actions
   based on sharia-inspired civil laws.

   For example, if we compare the UN Human rights charter to the [3]Arab
   Human Rights Charter, we can see the faults more easily.

   Criticizing a holy book leads to the my dogma's bigger than your dogma
   kind of argument that always goes nowhere.

   Otherwise, it's a great idea.

References

   1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/veiled_statues
   2. http://veiledstatues.blog.de/
   3. http://www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu/public/english/employment/skills/recomm/instr/arab_1.htm