Watched the aforementioned documentary last night. It would appear to me that those women do not really understand why they are there. Like Wafaa who didn't get what she wanted from the guards and started acting like a macabre child: "When I get out of here, I'll blow myself up among Israelis!" And how they talked about how their families somehow look up to them while looking down on them; on the other hand, they did try to become martyrs, on the other hand they failed to do so. Their mothers will not receive gifts from the neighbours for being the mother of a martyr. And the martyrdom in general... I cannot describe the feeling when the new mother (Samar) first tried to teach her son to say 'God is great" (Allahu akhbar, if I recall correctly), and then while being surrounded by the other prisoners, held her son in her arms, cuddled him and said she wished he'll become a martyr: "You'll be a good suicide bomber!" and "just like a true Hamas [member]".
And all this for what? Men martyrs believe they get 72 virgins in paradise (which may, by the way, be a translational mistake: not 'virgin' but 'white raisins of crystal clarity' [God Delusion, Ch. 3]). Women's belief is based on the very same thing as their life here on Eart: submission. It seems to be universal. In the US during slavery (and during segregation and after it) the highest in the hierarchy was a white male. Then came white women, then black men and at the end of the food chain black women. White men dominated over the others but black men had only one they could exercise power over: black women. And so they suffered. When someone controls you, you want to control someone to feel "higher", that you're not the lowest worm. My guess is that black women took it on their children. In the case of female suicide bombers and their motivations, their motivation is, as said, of the same principle. Now they are the end of the food chain, merchadise to and of men. They take it out on their daughters (because even the youngest son comes before wives and elder sisters) and daughters-in-law. And they in turn do the same to their daughters and daughters-in-law. E voilà, we have a neverending cycle of revenge on whomever one can consider being lower than yourself. Female martyrs believe that while men get the 72 virgin/raisins, they, the women, will be the rulers over those virgin/raisins. Control, power, submission, dominion.
And it never ends. One of the interviewed prisoners said the holy war will end when Israel is no more. And then she went on including that the war continues as long as there are subdued Muslims in the world. My question: does that include the submission of Muslim women by Muslim men? And this crap about Islam being the least misogynist religion... did they look at each other, see the veils?! Did they not remember being treated as being worth less than their brothers?! Did they not remember being married off at fourteen, having children ever since?! Do they not remember the talaq-rule, that a man can legally divorce his wife just by saying 'talaq' three times, no questions asked from anyone, especially the wife?! Do they not see?! But then again... no place on this planet honours women. We are trash, merchandise that can be used and sold, the price depending on the state of usage. A man in need of money sold/married off his eight-year-old daughter for a few thousand dollars to his sixty-something friend; the girl hidden by her mother cannot get a divorce because she is *not old enough*! One can see the same principle here in Finland: you're legally allowed to have sex and get pregnant at sixteen, but you need to be at least thirty in order to get a sterilisation. As long as this law is standing, women do not own their own bodies. We are cattle, baby machines.
Did we, the mankind, ever stop to ask ourselves are we worthy of survival?
No, we are not. There is no point talking about a civilisation as long as women are not human. I may be a bit early but at least the past 500 thousand years of human beings has not improved on that department.
Imagine if there was 50 thousand survivals of humans while other for some reason perished. The remaining population is small and not growing fast enough to avoid extinction of the homo sapiens [sic!]. What would happen to women? Would we get to choose whether or not to have children, to use contraception, to have abortions? Or would we officially become what we are now merely implied to be: cattle to produce more human beings? Then ask yourself this: would we be worthy of surviving if we behave like this, if we are ready to use the other half as human baby machines, breeding cattle? What makes us different from other animals then (killing your own and other species for fun, aside)? Nothing. So, why would we be worth surviving? I can't think of any reason.
