Religulous

The title of this blog is not a refrence to the Bill Mahr movie with the same title, while I must admit he coined the phrase it actually comes in handy in refrence to a certain type of people.

For example I was having a conversation with a friend of mine Mrs.X the other day, when she made a comment about some European countries putting a ban on the Burqa/Niqab. Mrs. X was saying how unfair and a violation of her invidual freedom of expression to do so. I argued to her that Certain Eastern countries have similar rules that enforces women to Veil. Mrs. X went on to say that it is the customs and religion of those countries and they are not doing anything wrong to enforce the veiling. Yet she could'nt for the life of her see how it was just the different side of the same coin.

She kept arguing that as a women who wears Niqab it would be unfair to her if she had to travel to those countries. I remarked to her that foreigners who visit those eastern countries have to veil, Mrs. X said that they only wear one loosly and not the right way. The whole time we were having this conversation I kept thinking this chick is Religulous , people who make them self ridiculous in the name of organized religion.

Mrs.X started to doubt my sincerity as a muslim and said that I was arguing for the wrong side and started to go off an a tagent of how the believers would stray. A persons faith should not come into question if they question the ideaology of things, also just because someone is a person of faith does not mean that he cant have objective thoughts.

What is the argument here folks the bottom line is that this should have nothing to do with faith or personally beliefs, what we are questioning here is ideaology. No one country or person should make a decision about what everyone else should or should'nt be allowed to wear. I believe it is just as wrong for Saudi Arabia to enforce the Niqab just as much as it is wrong for France to ban it. A person who allowes their prejudices or biases to color their judgement are Religulous.