THE VEIL, IN OUR LORDS’ HANDS

Every picture has its own story, mate. As long as that story is not interjected with another’s agenda and another’s politics. But, then — then, it is not a story, is it? How can there be a story without a politics? Without a point of view? Without subjectivity? Without a “yes” and a “no”?

 THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS

Where realities are built on contrasts. Where oppression is the name of Our Lord. And when the Lord is split and fragmented into two. The worldview is by all means an apology — an apology for “being one” and for “not being” another.

One in faith and One in oppression.

 

One in faith. One in oppression. The same veil in the same political eye.

You never needed these placards, if it was not for the oil and the riches. You wouldn’t need these words if your culture was seen on relative merits. Look — they save on paper and paint. Cos, their picture, is God given:

No. This post has no meaning. It looks like an odd collection of nuns, on one hand, and hijabed women on the other. But, what strikes me is that what (dis)places them in two extreme ends is a veil. A veil that is used for covering and closure. Well, yes — that. That, and a bit of History. And that history makes all the difference, mate. All the difference always. Already.

While doing Bill Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, my teacher ponders that the “nun” is a curious “sexual space”. (Maybe, that was why she was called a ‘nun’ ['none']. For it is a space occupied by no other). The nun is a desired body, where expression, action and fertility is detained and controlled. This, we like to define as modesty and as loyalty to Faith. Oppression, thus, becomes loyalty. If a nun was to striptease, she was to be a disloyal uncouth abomination. If a hijabed Moor is to exchange her garbs with a micro-mini, she’s to be liberated. Unchained from the cuffs of the Fascism of Islam. Or whatever.

We speak English, here. But, do not be veiled by the mainstream cultural politics of the English speaking world. Empires were always built this way. It happened this way. It happens so today. So, it will happen tomorrow.

My simple analogy of the veil is just an illustration. You can substitute the veil with  a gun, or a nuclear plant or even a cough. It will be the same.