How the burka became 'cool'

[RescueRanger]

That's your opinion and you can stay there. Our country is the land of the pure where Muslims honour and dignity are protected. And Allah knows best!

Bahi jan you are speaking to a Pakistani. This is MY country too.. Theek ha na.

Are they? Every fuked up thing goes on in this country .. From selling water (milk)... To selling donkey meat... From prostitution to smuggling and terrorism etc etc...
We are also the biggest liars and hypocrites... We may respect our women .. Yet we don't respect others.... We may clean our own house but we sure don't give a shit throwing stuff on the road ... We talk about Islam but sodomise children in madrasahs and even mosques....There are countless examples... So keep that self righteous shitte away !

Awesome post brother. Well said.

 

[Azad-Kashmiri]

Are they? Every fuked up thing goes on in this country .. From selling water (milk)... To selling donkey meat... From prostitution to smuggling and terrorism etc etc...
We are also the biggest liars and hypocrites... We may respect our women .. Yet we don't respect others.... We may clean our own house but we sure don't give a shit throwing stuff on the road ... We talk about Islam but sodomise children in madrasahs and even mosques....There are countless examples... So keep that self righteous shitte away !

Given there are many ills in our society and that requires fighting to improve the status-qua; I would never want to be in lands of humiliation where people look at you with suspicion. I've read too many humiliating stories on PDF and Christendom papers. The woman thrown off a plane, humiliated in airports, Muslims shot, minarets banned in Swisser, anti-Muslim groups, etc, etc.

I'm in A.K, on the front-line, when was the last time I was asked for my ID? Errrr...NEVER! Complete strangers give us salaam. Alhamdulilha for the land of the pure! I'm a proud Muslim and a proud Pakistani. Hardly the same can be said about those who are humiliated on a daily basis in Christendom.

 

[Spring Onion]

I don't know how and why Burkha avenger drew parallel with chota bheem? No one said dhoti is cool after chota bheem came out. This is a pure obtuse article about something regressive. No offence intended. Please don't fall for Indian print or TV media to gain some brownie points.

If you love Burkha wear it no one has problem with it, but if you want to glorify it please just don't. No one is interested in it.

)))))))))))) chota bheem has made the TILAK cool that is why the parallel.

@RescueRanger

 

[Azad-Kashmiri]

Bahi jan you are speaking to a Pakistani. This is MY country too.. Theek ha na.

Sorry bhai jan, I get a tad emotional when someone criticises our country

 

[RescueRanger]

Sorry bhai jan, I get a tad emotional when someone criticises our country

So your country is a burqa??? What? That statement didn't even make sense

 

[Styx]

it's an arab custom, and there is absolutely nothing even remotely 'cool' about it.. in fact I find it quite repulsive.

fuk the burka

 

[Azad-Kashmiri]

'Islamophobia' - The Islamist's best tool to beat lesser Muslims/non Muslims. Keep it up.

Ganguly saab, do you use the same benchmark to your new pals the Zionists who bark ant-isemitism at every turn?

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Nalin Mehta| Jul 5, 2015, 04.22 AM IST

When your four-year-old boy starts thinking of the burka as cool, it is time to sit up and take notice. Especially, when the burka comes repackaged as ninja-all-black on a Pakistani superheroine, destroying Taliban-like goons while moving to background music that sounds like a cross between Spiderman and Mission Impossible. An iron lady who despite living in the land of Malala Yusufzahi, uses books and pens as weapons to fight an enemy called Baba Bandook. Just as the mean streets of 1940s-New York led to the creative tensions that gave us Superman and Batman, the Talibanization of Pakistan and the recession of its modernity into an English-speaking ghetto has given rise to its first and possibly the world's most exciting animation experiment in years: the Burka Avenger.

While our very own kids' sensation Chota Bheem who lives in the timeless, make-believe world of Dholakpur where rajas still rule but kids also play T20-cricket and even go on expeditions to the North Pole, the Burka Avenger's world is set in in the North Pakistani town of Halwapur. It is constantly in danger of being taken over by the evil magician Baba Bandook, who looks like a Taliban commander, and is in cahoots with the corrupt politician Vader-Pajero. School-teacher by day, burka-clad avenger by night, Pakistan's new superwoman was created two years ago in Islamabad, got nominated for an Emmy in Hollywood, ranked among the world's most influential fictional characters by Time, and has now made her way into Indian television homes. This is the link with my four-year-old, who is among the many hooked on to this cleverly subtle social commentary on Pakistan's daily challenges, masquerading as a sweet children's caper.

The most delicious irony though is the use of the burqa as a super-uniform of real power, inverting its usual stereotype of suppression and inequality. Explaining the burka innovation, series creator AKA Haroon has been quoted as saying that the burka is simply hiding her identity like other superheroes and since the main character "is a woman, we could have dressed her up like Catwoman or Wonder Woman, but that wouldn't have worked in Pakistan."

Haroon's allusion to western superheroines points to another irony. America, the supposed bastion of modernity, feminism and individual freedom has created many super-heroines before but almost all of them were redolent with sexist imagery: more Barbie-doll than substance, conforming to male stereotypes of womanliness even when they were saving the world.

The early Wonder Woman comics in the 1940s, for example, were bizarrely full of women-bondage scenes, and the comic-book historian Tom Hanley has persuasively shown that Wonder Woman, during her curious career, became as much a feminist icon as a feminist failure.

So is Burka Avenger then a new feminist icon? It sits right in the middle of the visceral debate about the burqa itself and challenges orthodoxies. On one side of the argument are those like Nicolas Sarkozy, who as French President in 2009 denounced the burka as a "sign of subjugation and debasement". On the other, are women who defend their right to wear the burqa as an inalienable personal right.

Then there are sociologists like Z. Fareen Parvez who have done studies to show that the burka debates miss the point. Many burka-wearing women, in this view are not engaged in a form of politics but rather what may be called "anti-politics": a rejection of politics, a valorization of private life against the intrusive outside world and a retreat into a moral community. Other like the Sudanese writer and iconoclast Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who once wore a hijab, argue that many women don't have a choice in the matter of the burka. They just wear it because others around them do and it can't be restricted even if it is a symbol of oppression.

This is where Burka Avengers completely inverts the moral debates around the burka, making it a symbol of super power. Linking it to books and learning, it cuts through the politics to create real entertainment and empowering messaging. To yearn for "justice, peace and education for all" in Pakistan, as Burka Avenger does, is expected. But it takes special chutzpah to do this by re-inventing the garment and to turn it back like a ninja-weapon onto the mullahs of fundamentalism.

It is also, along with our very own Chota Bheem or Mighty Raju, part of a powerful new indigenous wave of compelling story-telling and counter-narrative of tales from the soil that challenge the Disney-dominated worlds of our children.

How the burka became 'cool' - The Times of India

 

[Jf Thunder]

it's an arab custom, and there is absolutely nothing even remotely 'cool' about it.. in fact I find it quite repulsive.

fuk the burka

WTF?

 

[RescueRanger]

Given there are many ills in our society and that requires fighting to improve the status-qua; I would never want to be in lands of humiliation where people look at you with suspicion. I've read too many humiliating stories on PDF and Christendom papers. The woman thrown off a plane, humiliated in airports, Muslims shot, minarets banned in Swisser, anti-Muslim groups, etc, etc.

I'm in A.K, on the front-line, when was the last time I was asked for my ID? Errrr...NEVER! Complete strangers give us salaam. Alhamdulilha for the land of the pure! I'm a proud Muslim and a proud Pakistani. Hardly the same can be said about those who are humiliated on a daily basis in Christendom.

How do we treat Christians, seikhs, Hindus, parsee and handful of Jews in our country? ...

Trust me, Muslims can build mosques in Christian lands, how many churches have been built in Pakistan post 1960? How many temples, mandir ?

our country still cannot decide to allow a Hindu marriage law for God's sake, meanwhile their "Christian" laws protect our very right to worship and practice our faith.

If the western world has become anti Islamic it is partly due to how our people have conducted themselves in what is a foreign land.

Please don't be so quick to pass judgement. And who are you to say Muslims living in foreign lands are any lesser than you are.

Get over yourself, gharoor is a bad trait. Anyway you must have pretty solid down time and great WIMAX signal on the front lines of AK.

 

[jaatram]

)))))))))))) chota bheem has made the TILAK cool that is why the parallel.

@RescueRanger

Now That's something I can't argue with.

 

[Azad-Kashmiri]

So your country is a burqa??? What? That statement didn't even make sense

A remind you of your post:

So your saying kafir countries don't have principals and morals and values. Reality check, they have more principals and values than us a 1000 times over.

This offended me greatly. Like i said, I say that to anyone if you don't like our country please pack your bags and leave. For those abroad, don't worry about what happens in our country as your new ''country is 1000 times better''. Does Christendom accept you as their own or is it just in your own head? You are ''Pakis'' and foreigners!

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Ganguly saab, do you use the same benchmark to your new pals the Zionists who bark ant-isemitism at every turn?

They are way smarter. 'Sue them. Don't kill them.'

 

[RescueRanger]

A remind you of your post:

So your saying kafir countries don't have principals and morals and values. Reality check, they have more principals and values than us a 1000 times over.

This offended me greatly. Like i said, I say that to anyone if you don't like our country please pack your bags and leave. For those abroad, don't worry about what happens in our country as your new ''country is 1000 times better''. Does Christendom accept you as their own or is it just in your own head? You are ''Pakis'' and foreigners!

Answer me this: Are there as many temples and mandirs in Pakistan as there as mosques in the USA? Just an honest question.

 

[VCheng]

Answer me this: Are there as many temples and mandirs in Pakistan as there as mosques in the USA? Just an honest question.

Please stop trying to malign Pakistan with facts. People get upset.

Let's extend this line of reasoning: How many churches are there in all of Saudi Arabia? So why do they talk about Muslim's rights in other countries when they do not offer their minorities the same rights they demand elsewhere?