by Pat Darnell
I have opinion that really hedges around roles of females in the world. I feel I am not the best person to editorialize about women's roles because I am a man who abandoned my first wife and child. She was just eight when I decided to not stick around for the aftermath of divorce.
So when I speak of this it is not an easy topic for me, and probably about 6 out of ten fathers out there.
I feel that women have been the undisputed "repressed" champion martyred group in all human history. Forget skin color, because I guarantee females of that same skin color are more discriminated, repressed, neglected and under-funded than any male of the said skin color.
Therefore I see this very bright and beautiful young woman, who obviously has much talent, threatened to be sacrificed and repressed by the very same "goat herder mentality" that underlies civilization. Believe me, I have thought long about the futility of female tribulations in 12,000 years in obtaining best conditions for their interests.
Look in with me at these two articles from March 2007, concerning weirdness caused when West meets Middle East customs...
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The Times | March 9, 2007
Miss Israel finalist quits after family’s honour killing plot
Ms Fares’s story has dominated the Israeli media as a high-profile example of a foiled “hon-our killing”, where a woman is murdered by members of her own family for supposed sexual offenses that have somehow brought shame to the family.
Last year, seventeen Palestinian women were reported killed in honour crimes, twelve in the Gaza Strip and five in the occupied West Bank. In Israel, seven women were similarly killed for “crimes” ranging from having sex before marriage to being the victim of rape.
For Ms Fares the controversy began last November, when she decided to enter the Miss Israel contest. She chose the name “Angelina” in honour of her idol, the American actress Angelina Jolie, and spent hours watching Fashion Television to prepare for her audition.
The first phase of the competition was a bikini contest. Ms Fares knew that parading in her red two-piece could be considered controversial in the Druze community, whose religion is an offshoot of Islam.
Her participation in the pageant even raised the judges’ eyebrows. “They were very surprised when they found out I was Druze. They asked me if it would be a problem for me to be in the contest. I told them ‘no’, that my whole family supported me,” Ms Fares said.
Dalia, Ms Fares’ mother, defended that decision, saying that she did not want to interfere with her daughter’s dreams. “She was there to represent herself, not the whole Druze community,” she said.
Ms Fares was chosen as one of twenty finalists, convincing the family that they had done the right thing. “Ever since childhood I was preparing myself for this. It was like the dream I had lived inside my head for so long,” Ms Fares said.
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Miss Israel Quits With HonourPosted by gasmonso on March 13, 2007 [
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If you aren’t familiar with the Druze than do yourself a favor and go here. Don’t be ashamed; I never heard of them either till now.
Let us take a trip to the peaceful land of Israel. Here I will introduce to you a lovely girl named Doaa Fares… she is the girl pictured here. She was raised in a deeply conservative Druze village where women are born into a traditional conservative role.
But Fares was ahead of her time and looking to break the mold. She changed her name to Angelina and entered the Miss Israel beauty pageant with delusions of grandeur… a cash prize, a car, and a modeling career.
Unfortunately for Angelina, she was amongst the land of the religious freaks. She was the first Druze to compete in such a competition and was thus targeted faster for extermination than Sara Connor. Even more troubling is the fact that it wasn’t the Terminator trying to silence her… it was her own flesh and blood. Her family was evoking the age-old tradition of Honour Killing to protect their own honor.
I know in the past I have labeled this phenomenon as an Islamic one. Many wrote to suggest otherwise and this may be evidence. If anyone has knowledge on the Druze I would appreciate your insight.
The reason I labeled this story under Islam is because the roots of the Druze appear to stem from there. I must emphasize that the Muslim community does not recognize the Druze.
