Annnnnnnddddd we're back!

So apparently fighting til "death" for Solution Naseer means fighting til some dude with a calculator gets fired. Seriously, I've met some crazy hoots in my time but this one takes the fruitcake! Now all our gate scaling practice had been in vain.

However, we XResistance ers are all feeling quite morose these days. Yes all of us. We feel exactly the same at all times. We are like those groups of fish in the ocean that glides along and switches direction all at the same time. We are a wonder of nature. Anyway, the general feeling amongst us is melancholy. The world is overcast and dismal. The mood glum.

Therefore at this troubled times we really feel, as you tend to do in such times, the need to express some gratitude to certain people. So here we go:

We thank the brave souls who went to talk to our President to express concern about some very angry and very intolerant people in this society. More power to you.

We thank President Nasheed for talking about these concerns and inviting difference of opinion to be expressed.

We thank all those hordes of women who called in radio stations the day after the President's radio address and took back the concept of a woman's right to choose back a couple of centuries!!! Sigh. We sincerely hope that a day does not come that you feel threatened to express your views.

We thank our fearless civil society for coming out and saying officially what a lot of people are afraid to say. You inspire us.

And finally, we say congratulations, hurrah and she's a jolly good fellow to Guin Batten, who successfully made the crossing, rowing across the ocean between Huvadhu atoll and Fuahmulah in little over 7 hours. Not bad for a mere female we say!

Ah, the clouds seems to be lifting....

Temporary Break in Transmission

XResistance team is very busy heeding the call of the distinguished Mr. Solution Naseer to fight til death! Yes we are. Even as we write we are brushing up on our skills of scaling up gates and shaking 'em. Its not as easy as it looks aright!

And not to mention we are also extremely preoccupied figuring out what the frikkin hell we are supposed to be fighting for.....???

Anywhoo, once we get our limbs and brains in co-ordination we shall be back.

And in the meantime FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!..... for.. erm... something or other...

Majlis Medley!

(raagu: if you're happy and you know it..... erm its loosely based so please adjust!)

If you're loony and you know it
Knock out someone's teeth!
Crash! Crash!

If you're juve nile and hypocritical
Step on your opponent's feet!
Stomp! stomp!

If you cant see past party politics
Then you surely have to show it
If you're (dis)Honourable and you know it
Let the country take a backseat!
Boo! Boooooooo!

Freedom of Expression Explained (...for dimwits)

The right to express what you feel is very important in a democracy. Especially in a democracy such as ours where the people are ripe and ready-to-eat. Hmm. Anyway, freedom of expression is a very fundamental right. It is important in a democracy because it allows for people to participate in processes of decision making. It also makes the big people more accountable. The little ones too. In fact it enables people of all sizes to be more accountable. It also allows for a very vibrant society where ideas are discussed, debated, opinions are expressed. The society moves along and evolves. It skips along and frolics in the sunshine. sigh!

So basically the reasons behind freedom to express yourself are constructive, good-for-the-society-and-all-man-and-womankind sort of reasons.

BUT if you hate a certain segment of society, say........ harmonica players! and you just cannot stand them and you want exterminate them, unfortunately expressing this view does not, i repeat NOT, represent freedom of expression. And I'll tell you why. Read very slowly now because this will be very complicated for you.

See, you can have your right of freedom of expression. But harmonica players have their right to life, so wanting to kill em off infringes on their right to live. They are both fundamental human rights alright. So unfortunately for you your right ends where someone else's right begins.

There's also this very inconvenient principle for harmonica player haters. Its called the "harm principle". That principle basically says that limitations can be put on your freedom to express if it includes any harm to others. And lets just agree to agree that death is very harmful for a person.

So, bottom line, moral of the story etc etc: Unfortunately, even though you are entitled to have the opinion that all harmonica players should be killed, executed, exterminated and crushed, you cannot publicly express that opinion because
a) it infringes on the basic rights of harmonica players
b) it might incite harm to harmonica players
c) its not freedom of expression its HATE SPEECH which is illegal in almost all sensible countries and
d) you are pathetic get a frikkin life!!!

Applause!

We would like thank the honourable men and women of the Majlis for favouring the withdrawal of the reservation that Maldives have placed on Article 7(a) of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Once we got over the initial shock we were extremely happy. Elated. Ecstatic.
And more importantly we are stoked that Dr. Afraashim quite kindly pointed out that some scholars do believe that it is not against the religion for women being heads of state. Heck, even the music banning, child marriage promoting, distinguishedly turban and robe wearing Bilal Philips said its ok to have a woman as leader of the country. However, he warned against it and stated that its not all that advisable to do so.

Actually we perfectly understand! Who is their right might would want to elect a half wit as a president. There will be absolute chaos I tell you! The government will be mismanaged, rule of law will not be upheld, the rate of crime will rise, the economy will deteriorate, governance will be weak, no one will know what they're doing, people will start worshipping strange gods like Fuel Supply Maldives, no one will observe even the smallest rules like stopping your vehicle at a zebra crossing, education system will be weak and health facilities mismanaged, there'll be no confidence in the legal system, and the people'll have complete dissatisfaction with the leadership and they'll be protesting every other day!!!

No, we absolutely CANNOT have that in this country, no way!

But anyway, it was very kind of the Majlis, and we hope that the conditions change for the remaining reservation to be removed as well. We have faith in the Majlis. No, really. Yes.

The egg hatches..

Hello world.

XResistance is a group of people who would like to generally spread cheer and love and everything pink, blue and purple (and everything in between) in this world. We feel that too much space is being taken up by Team Negativity, aiming to promote a very rigid, narrow and (in our humble opinion) a completely idiotic way of utilising the limited time we have on this God's Green Earth. We are also God fearing, completely pro choice and feminists, but with shaved legs and underarms. Including the men.

We are against things that makes the world less beautiful, such as intolerance, discrimination, and visible panty lines. Not to mention B strings. Lets not go there.

We would also like to take a moment to appreciate the men who have been speaking out on the Maldivian blogsphere when rights of women have been infringed. You know who you are. We really love you in a totally platonic and non clingy way.

We are quite a varied bunch here at this team and hope to write about issues that grate on our collective nerves. As women have half the intelligence of a man, our girl writers work in pairs so we got that covered. Hope you will keep reading.

Best

XResistance Team