an open letter to geraldine kennedy editor of the irish times

Dear Madam.
You have recently published the results of what you claim was a survey into Irish people's attitudes to the peaceloving religion of Islam.
Your survey purported to show that Irish people by a clear majority were in favour of permitting Muslim women to wear the Jilbab in schools, colleges and workplaces in the Republic of Ireland.
You presented the information as though the sole circumstance under which Muslim women wear the Jilbab is through choice.
Those who answered your alleged survey were not asked if they favoured allowing male Muslims to force female Muslims to wear the Jilbab in schools, colleges and places of work in the Republic of Ireland.
I wish to suggest that the way you phrased the question ensured you got the result you wanted.
Miss Kennedy I put it to you, that Muslim women face daily intimidation at the hands of their fathers, brothers and menfolk generally, and that this intimidation is the main reason why any of them ever under any circumstances, choose to wear a Jilbab.
It's not really a choice is it?
In addition...
I read your survey but could find no details of precisely how many people you had surveyed.
I mean, did you just run down to the Irish Times canteen and ask twenty groovy Dublin Four skangers slumped over their coffees: "You know like hey man shouldn't we all just like chill out and let Muslims wear whatever they want?"
The takers of such surveys often get the result they are looking for, don't they?
The observer affects the thing observed.
Nonetheless there are ways of honestly seeking the truth.
For instance, had you pointed out to your survey respondents (presuming it was a genuine survey and there were genuine respondents) had you pointed out that Muslim women rarely if ever choose to wear the Jilbab, and that traditional Muslim costumes are imposed on Muslim women rather than chosen by them, had you pointed this out noble Irish Times editor, ie if you had asked: "In view of the fact that Muslim males wish to impose Jilbab attire on Muslim females as part of a fundamentalist project, are you in favour of allowing such clothing to be worn at schools, colleges etc etc," if you had asked your question like this, oh most worthy Irish Times editor, might not the results of your survey (if survey it was), might they not have been, how shall we put it, significantly different to the paella you tried to pass off as statistically quantified truth in your recently published account?
Strange to relate, the Muslims of Turkey are desperately trying to prevent their own Islamist government from introducing legal permission to wear the Jilbab at schools and so on.
The Turks are against it and we're in favour of it, Irish Times editor?
Do you reall think so?
Here is the news.
The Muslims of Turkey recognise that legal permission to wear the Jilbab amounts to legal sanction for funadamentalist Muslim males to force women to wear the Jilbab.
Perhaps you might have gotten a different result in your "survey" if you'd bothered to point out some of the cultural background to the Jilbab issue, in your no doubt extensively groovy preamble to the question.
Geraldine Kennedy consider this.
Consider the possibility that you may have a duty to the hundreds of millions of Muslim women who live under circumstances of oppression at the hands of their menfolk, and for whose oppression the Jilbab provides a visible cultural marker.
Consider indeed, the possibility that you have a duty to the thousands of Muslim women murdered every year by their menfolk for NOT wearing the Jilbab, or for the even more heinous crime of DARING to have a boyfriend, or for the most dreadful crime of all in allowing their father or brother or cousin Ahmed to THINK they had a boyfriend.
You might consider accepting a certain duty in highlighting these matters.
Or even mentioning them occasionally.
You might.
But I gotta tell you, I'm not optimistic that you will.
Another point, if you don't mind.
It has been interesting for me in recent months to see citizens from Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, the Statelet of Bosnia, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, logging on to my website.
Perhaps they are big Paddy Pup fans.
(Big shout out to all my friends at the euphemistically titled National Engineering Services building in the Saudi capital Ar Riyadh, and to my homies in the Iranian university city of Isfahan. Yippykayah motherf----rs.)
Several of them have done searches of my website using your name as a key word.
Why do you think this is?
Why would members of Jihadi groups be searching my website for information about you?
Is it because the Irish Times has segued seamlessly over the past twenty years from an anti American pro Soviet rag to an anti American pro Arabist rag?
I'm just wondering.
Let me this way put it Miz Kennedy.
You've got fans in low places.
Finally to more local matters.
My sources have suggested that your newspaper is involved in a broad alliance with legal professionals in the Republic of Ireland to bring about the introduction of abortion to our country.
Is there any truth in this suggestion?
If so I would ask you to desist immediately from such societal manipulations and to ensure that your employees do the same.
Betraying Ireland to the Jihadi's is one thing.
Betraying Ireland to Satan is quite another.
Thank you for your time.
James Healy