Konyol pikiranmu, koq yang dipaksa wanita harus pakain Islamiah, tetapi
laki-lakinya boleh seperti Mr John dan Mr Gentleman. Itukah keadilan Awlloh?
----- Original Message -----
From: Hati Nurani
To: zamanku@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:38 AM
Subject: [zamanku] Bisikan Syetan Re: Saudi women beat a path to the TV for
Oprah
Negara Amerika Latin yang miskin-miskin wanitanya tidak berjilbab.
--- On Tue, 9/23/08, Sunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Sunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [zamanku] Bisikan Syetan Re: Saudi women beat a path to
the TV for Oprah
To: zamanku@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 12:51 PM
Busana boleh saja, tetapi bukan untuk dipaksakan pada wanita, pada
pihak lain orang laki boleh berpakain seperti Mr John, Mr Kent, Mr Thom
dengan open jas seperti Mr Gentlemen.
Dari pakaian saja sudah berbeda, makanya itu distribusi pendapatan
di Indonesia berbeda seperti dunia dan langit, kemiskinan merraja lela dan
tidak akan bisa ada kemajuan.
----- Original Message -----
From: Hati Nurani
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:13 AM
Subject: [zamanku] Bisikan Syetan Re: Saudi women beat a path to
the TV for Oprah
Banyak orang mengecam busana muslimah dengan berbagai Alasan,
misalnya ada yang beralasan supaya jangan sampai keluar aturan agar non
muslimah 'dipaksa' memakai busana muslimah.
Ada yang menggunakan alasan bahwa dengan banyaknya busana
muslimah, pakaian tradisional tersingkir.
Semua alasan itu biasanya hanya mengada-ada. Alasan Utama
adalah, jangan sampai ada orang Muslim/muslimah menjalankan ajaran agamanya.
Dan bisikan seperti ini adalah bisikan Syetan/Iblis yang tidak suka manusia
menjalankan aturan agama.
Inilah contoh bisikan itu :
Come on, Indonesian Muslimah, you have always enjoyed your
independence and freedom without being promiscuous or immodest
Salam,
--- On Sun, 9/21/08, gkrantau <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote:
From: gkrantau <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com>
Subject: [zamanku] Re: Saudi women beat a path to the TV
for Oprah
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 11:35 PM
It should be an eye opener for Indonesian women (Muslimah)
who are now being coerced by the fanatical Muslim men to accept restrictions
which the Arab Muslimah are beginning to realize as a form of subjugation.
Come on, Indonesian Muslimah, you have always enjoyed your
independence and freedom without being promiscuous or immodest. Look at your
Arab counterparts only now (with cable television, the internet, magazines and
travels) they began to realize that they have been treated shabilly by the men
because of their tradition. Why do you want to go back into the unfair,
injurious and demeaning customs of the dark ages.
Gabriela Rantau
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com, "Sunny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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> http://www.iht. com/articles/ 2008/09/19/ mideast/oprah.
php
>
>
> MBC's Web site includes information about the show.
(MBC4)
> Saudi women beat a path to the TV for Oprah
>
> By Katherine Zoepf Published: September 19, 2008
>
>
> DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia: Once a month, Nayla says, she
writes a letter to Oprah Winfrey.
>
> A young Saudi homemaker who covers her face in public
might not seem to have much in common with an American talk show host whose
image is known to millions. Like many women in this conservative desert
kingdom, Nayla does not usually socialize with people outside her extended
family, and she never leaves the house unless chaperoned by her husband.
>
> Winfrey has not answered the letters. But Nayla says she
is still hoping.
>
> "I feel that Oprah truly understands me," Nayla said.
"She gives me energy and hope for my life. Sometimes I think that she is the
only person in the world who knows how I feel."
>
> Nayla is not the only Saudi woman to feel a special
connection to the American media mogul. When "The Oprah Winfrey Show" was first
broadcast in Saudi Arabia in November 2004
>
> on a Dubai-based satellite channel, it became an
immediate sensation among young Saudi women.
>
> Within months, it had become the highest-rated
English-language program among women 25 and younger, an age group that makes up
about a third of Saudi Arabia's population.
>
> In a country where the sexes are rigorously separated,
where topics like sex and race are rarely discussed openly and where a strict
code of public morality is enforced by religious police called hai'a, Winfrey
provides many young Saudi women with new ways of thinking about the way local
taboos affect their lives - a variety of issues including childhood sexual
abuse and coping with marital strife - without striking them, or Saudi Arabia's
ruling authorities, as subversive.
>
> Some women here say Winfrey's assurances to her viewers -
that no matter how restricted or even abusive their circumstances may be, they
can take control in small ways and create lives of value - helps them find
meaning in their cramped, veiled existence...
>
> "Oprah dresses conservatively, " explained Princess Reema
bint Bandar al-Saud, a co-owner of a women's spa in Riyadh called Yibreen and a
daughter of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to the United
States. "She struggles with her weight. She overcame depression.. She rose from
poverty and from abuse. On all these levels she appeals to a Saudi woman.
People really idolize her here."
>
> Today, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," with Arabic subtitles,
is broadcast twice each weekday on MBC4, a three-year-old channel developed by
the MBC Group with the Arab woman in mind. The show's guests, self-improvement
tips, and advice on family relationships - as well as Winfrey's clothes and
changing hairstyles - are eagerly analyzed by Saudi women from a wide range of
social backgrounds and income levels.
>
> The largest-circulation Saudi women's magazine, Sayidaty,
devotes a regular page to Winfrey, and dog-eared copies of her official
magazine, O, which is not sold in the Kingdom, are passed around by women who
collect them during trips abroad.
>
> The particulars of Winfrey's personal story have
resonated with a broad audience of Saudi women in a way that few other Western
imports have, explained Mazen Hayek, a spokesman for the MBC Group.
>
> Saudi Arabia was an impoverished desert country before it
was transformed by oil money and, in just a couple of generations, into a
wealthy consumer society. Saudi women readily identify with "this glamorous
woman from very modest beginnings," Hayek said by telephone from Dubai.
>
> "Oprah talks about issues that haven't really been spoken
about here openly before," said Maha al-Faleh, 23, of Riyadh. "She talks about
racism, for example. This is something that Saudis are very concerned about,
because many of us feel that we're judged for the way we veil or for our skin
color. I have a friend whose driver touched her in an inappropriate way. She
was very young at the time, but she felt very guilty about it - and Oprah
helped her to speak about this abuse with her mother."
>
> MBC edits some Oprah episodes to remove content banned by
censors in the region, officials at the channel say. It does not broadcast
segments on homosexuality, for example. But the officials say they make most
episodes available to their regional viewers uncensored, including some about
relations between Arabs and Westerners and about living with the threat of
Islamic terrorism.
>
> Saudi women say they are drawn to Winfrey not only
because she openly addresses subjects considered taboo locally, but also
because she speaks of self-empowerment and change.
>
> Wafa Mohamed, 38, a mother of five from Riyadh who, like
many of the women interviewed, would not give her full name, said she believes
that, in their adoration of Winfrey, Saudi women are expressing a hesitant
sense of longing for real change in their country.
>
> "Many of us feel that the solutions for our problems have
to come from outside," Mohamed said. When President George W. Bush visited
Saudi Arabia in January, she continued, as an example, his presence briefly
became a locus of hope for Saudi women... "A lot of women were saying that they
wished they could talk to Bush about problems like forced marriage, about how
our children are taken away if our husbands divorce us."
>
> In a country where women are forbidden to vote, or to
travel without the permission of a male guardian, a sense of powerlessness can
lead women to look for unlikely sources of rescue, Mohamed explained. "If women
here have problems with their fathers or their brothers, what can they do but
look to Oprah?" she asked. "The idea that she will come and help them is a
dream for them."
>
> Nayla, the homemaker in Dammam, a Gulf port city, says
Winfrey helps her cope with a society that does not encourage her to have
interests - or even to have anything to say. "The life of a woman here in Saudi
- it makes you tired and it makes you boring," she said.
>
> Like many Saudi women, Nayla struggles with obesity, a
major issue in the Kingdom since many women are largely confined to their homes
and forbidden from participating in sports or walking around their
neighborhoods. She says that Winfrey has inspired her to lose weight and to
pursue an education through an online degree course, a method acceptable to her
husband since she will not have to leave home.
>
> Mohamed said, "Oprah is the magic word for women here who
want to scream out loud, who want to be heard. Look at what happened to the
girl from Qatif," she said, referring to the infamous 2007 case of a young
woman who was gang-raped, then sentenced to flogging because she had been in a
car with an unrelated man. The young woman from Qatif received a royal pardon
after her case became an media cause célèbre.
>
> "The Qatif girl was heard outside the country, and she
was helped," Mohamed said. "But we need to have Saudi women who help women
here. We need to have women social workers, women judges."
>
> "We have a very male-dominated society, and it's very
hard sometimes," Mohamed said. "But for now I have my coffee, and sit, and I
watch Oprah.
>
> "It's my favorite time of day."
>
