Monday, November 30, 2009
A story on the creeping (?) Islamization of Gaza: Hamas Bans Women Dancers, Scooter Riders in Gaza Push
The Islamic Hamas movement banned girls last month from riding behind men on motor scooters and forbade women from dancing at the opening of a folk museum. Girls in some public schools must wear headscarves and cloaks.
Signs of Hamas's creeping Islamization are everywhere in Gaza, the Mediterranean coastal enclave that Hamas has run by itself since 2007. Gaza is already politically divided from the West Bank, the Palestinian territory administered by the secular Fatah movement.
"Ruling by itself, Hamas can stamp its ideas on everyone," said Mkhaimar Abusada, a political science professor at Gaza's al-Azhar University. "Islamizing society has always been part of Hamas strategy."...'
Read on at the link for some of the specifics. (But I hear they provide social services, so it's all OK.)
An Israeli reader sends the following photo of "Women in Gaza" along:
His comment: "...without the ak-47 and the hamas headband is something I see almost every day now in israel..."
