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When the 'aspiring liberators' continue to fail to deliver peace and justice within a reasonable time-frame.   And continue to demand more and more from the people, in return for a life of struggle and sacrifices, then it is worse than the oppressor.  When years come and years go. When decades replace decades and the aspiring liberators fail to deliver on their promises.  When 'the struggle' becomes a way of life for the people, and when deprivation and sacrifices becomes their daily expectation.  When men and women among the people, are forbidden from finding and advocating any other path to liberating the people.  Other than that of the those who see themselves as the 'legitimate aspiring liberators.'  When the 'aspiring liberators', such as Hamas, consistently fail to provide their own organisation and the people.  With the prudent, timely and appropriate leadership, and the means to secure the just and reasonable demands

But probably most importantly, the wearing of the burqa represents an act of men seeking to protect what they see as their basic right to own and dominate women.  In the case of the use of the burqa, by depriving the female of the human species of their beauty and their individuality.  Of their basic right to have the Sun and the Moon shine on their faces, unhindered by a mask.  To have the cool breeze blow on their bare faces, and to make eye contact with the people they are conversing with.  Of the right to be a person, a human being, and not a 'concealed figure.' To make them into an undifferentiated whole, especially in public places.  To maintain the female of the species in a state of alienation. The Burqa is, again, in my opinion, an attempt by the male of the species to devalue the worth of the female of the species.   To utterly own her body and her mind, by imprisoning her in a garment which conceals her to the point of imprisoning her

Because, no soon had the Christian, and, for all I know, the Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, et al gods, had freed humans to think and act for them/ourselves, both individually and collectively.  Than the originators, scribes, prophets and clergies of all of these various religions, struck down our freedom, by removing from our ancestors and us, the 'free will' which the Christian god had reputedly given us.  Our 'free will' was replaced with 'the will of the religions' of rulers who conquered our respective ancestors. In the first instance, and, subsequently, 'legitimised' by the proclamation that, 'it is the will of god.'  And to condemn those who disagree and endeavour to exercise 'their free will', to death, in this life, and eternal damnation, in what they, the theistics, argue is the next life. So, what are we humans, especially those of us who value our 'free will', to make of this apparen

The person who is born into servitude, having been subjected to the dominant philosophy underpinning that social system, and which constructed by both the slaves and the 'society of the free people.  Is likely to be inclined to accept a way of live which is contrary to their own best interest.  Including that of struggling to maintain their state of servitude. Unthinkingly by some of us, and reluctantly or willingly by other.  The philosophy behind the Burqa is not one which was intended to make it and the woman concealed behind it.   Look aesthetically beautiful, attractive and an enhancement of the female body. Neither was or is it intended to be a statement of the wearer's individuality, of their freedom to express their individual identity. To interact freely with the outside world. Instead, it seems to me that it was intended to have the opposite effect.  It is a declaration, a pointed statement of the woman's 'depersonalisation.&#

But so does the professed and aspiring liberator also seems to engender fear into the heart and minds of the oppressed.  In the aspiring liberators goal of getting the oppressed to fear them more than they do the oppressor. The aspiring and/or self-proclaimed liberator, whether they be Hamas, ISIL, the Taliban, et al, or the indisciplined and cowardly armies of many countries, et al, all use fear as their most potent weapon.  The main difference is the fact that some aspiring liberators choose to describe the fear which they engenders and promote, as 'the loyalty of the people to the cause.'  A cause which is too often most the cause of the self-declared 'liberators.' As I see it, there are times and stages of any struggle, when the purported 'liberators' are as bad as and even worse than the oppressor, the enemy.  Times when the 'liberators' demonstrate gross and contemptuous disregard for the lives of the people.  Times when t

As Hamas and the government of Israel continue to squeeze the life-blood out of the ordinary - if such a being still exist or is allowed to exist - Palestinian.   With their bloody encounters, with the nonchalant  reassurance of knowing that it is not their blood, lives and livelihoods, but that of the people which is paying for their diarrhoeal violence.  It is a timely opportunity to reflect on some of the truisms and paradoxes of the Israel-Palestine military conflict.  Whether they are being waged by professed 'liberators' or malevolent or beneficent oppressors. And so it seems to me, that there are times and stages in any struggle, when their is no difference between the methodology and the impact of the policies of both the oppressor and the aspiring 'liberator.'  A bullet from the declared liberator, when aimed and fired, if it finds it target, but take a life or bring devastating injuries to whomever it was aimed at.  To the

We stood in the car park and reminisced about we have been doing,  times we had spent together and times we had spent with Y.  And as we reflect on the past, on enjoyable times we have had. Each of us, as it is the nature of humans, was probably also constantly aware of the real reason why we were gathered together at this Crematorium.  It was not mainly for the ironic pleasure we were having from seeing our relatives, friends and strangers. At a place where many, if not all of us did not know was there and had not visited. We were there  to 'see off' and say our final goodbye to Y. Yes, we spent probably about 40 or so minutes waiting around and touching base about our lives, what we are doing now, what we have done in the past and what we aspire to be doing in the future. And then it was time. Time to enter into the unimposing chapel of the Crematoria, preceded by the relatively small Coffin of Y.  It was small because Y, even before her body h