It’s been said that idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece. Replace “lips” with “fingertips” and you’ve basically summarized every half-wit keyboard warrior with acess to Wi-Fi.
While we can laugh over the half-wits, occasionally statements that are unfathomably perturbing unnerving come out from social media users, and the entire internet pulls the breaks faster that you can CTR + ALT + DELETE.
Yesterday, social media user Farez Jabar, who had been tweeting as @FarezJabar before unceremoniously deleting his account, decided to weigh in on the ever-so-engaging topic of just how covered up a woman should be. Judging by his social media account photos, Farez is not a woman, but obviously has an opinion on how women should dress.
The conversation quickly digressed, with Farez arguing that women need to cover their aurat (intimate body parts, readings of which parts vary), lest they become targets for rape.
While you may be thinking that this is just your run-of-the-mill victim blaming, Farez took it a step further, explaining that even fathers were horny, and should they see their daughters dressed in a “sexy” manner (what constitutes as sexy also tends to vary), they would be compelled to rape them, as would their brothers, uncles and grandfather, for good measure.
Yes. W.T.F.
Many were quick to not only condemn his sickening logic, but some were even concerned enough to suggest that if Farez genuinely saw the world as such a perverted place, he might be in need of help.
He did not back down, upping the ante that it was others who did not understand, and that he was only trying to protect religion from enemy forces. Enemies like … men who think there is a valid context where they would rape their daughters? Nolah – the usual suspects: Jews, Catholics, Pluralists, Liberals, and Shia Muslims. Right.
It all ended quite badly, with some spectacular take-downs:
Eventually leading Farez to suspend his Twitter account:
His Facebook still seems to be up (no, we’re not gonna link it, sorry you’re gonna have to Nancy Drew that for yourselves), and photos indicate that he has a son.
For the sake of his boy, and for future generations, we sincerely hope that this goes beyond a Twitter bashing (entertaining as it is) and that a genuine dialogue and self-examination by Farez happens. It really is a faulted, and sickening, logic, and we hope that he comes to understand why.
