In 1928 the Women’s suffrage movement in the UK finally secured the vote for women over the age of 21. This was a long struggle of almost 60 years to attain what would be used for the next eighty plus years as a battering ram to hold the rest of the world to account. The UK was now a civilised and equal society when, there was much to be proud of, with the British empire dwindling the legacy of the suffrage was something to hold onto when it came to the false superiority complex the British has developed during the time of Empire.
The superiority complex still exists to this day and has out grown the shores of Britain, it is something that plagues most if not all of the Western world. The savages are no longer Indian peasants who must be moulded into British officer loving Chai Wala’s, the 21st century ‘barbarians’ are the Muslim masses.
The East India Company may be long gone but the attitude remains, especially when it comes to ‘women’s rights’ . The Muslim world is constantly lectured about its treatment of women and how their rights must be observed. Democracy is seen as the solution to all the ills of the world add to that a little liberalism and any society can be made into a modern Utopia for women.
Bearing this in mind it is not surprising that when the Kingdom of the Saud Family announced it was planning to allow women to vote it would make news in the UK. Cue the BBC having it as their top story with an image of a woman in Niqab, just to push home the negative stereotypes of Muslim women. Where I see a sister worshiping Allah (swt) the Western world sees a woman imprisoned by Islam.
The vote has nothing to do with how the West views women, if political participation was really the concern than a look at the Arab Spring would have removed any doubts. With women in Niqab and Hijab partaking in direct political opposition in Bahrain, Syria, Egypt , even Saudi etc there is little doubt that Muslim women are engaged in politics. Even when the segregated demonstrations in Bahrain were broken up by British tear gas there was little concern for Muslim women getting killed.
The whole debate of women getting the vote is more to do with spreading liberalism and western values to Muslim women worldwide. Muslim women don’t need stooges like Abduallah to give them the vote it was a right afforded to them over 1400 years ago. What Muslim women need is the correct system in which to enact that right, the Islamic system.
Liberation for all Muslims is under Islam and not some Western backed kingship. As for the image of the Muslim women in Niqab, it would be totally unfair not to respond in kind.
As the photo above shows less than 90 years after fighting for the vote British woman are dumped in the gutter along with the Kebab wrappers.
