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Liberating Women Through Hijab
http://www.tripolipost.com ^ | 28/06/2010 | By Mohammad Azeemullah

Posted on 06/30/2010 12:42:49 AM PDT by Maelstorm

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To: Westbrook

I’m familiar with both Amish and Mennonites. I don’t recall ever seeing anything near a hijab. A small cap but not a full scarf except in very cold winter weather.


21 posted on 06/30/2010 4:45:03 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Westbrook

I’m familiar with both Amish and Mennonites. I don’t recall ever seeing anything near a hijab. A small cap but not a full scarf except in very cold winter weather.


22 posted on 06/30/2010 4:45:07 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Maelstorm

LOL Yeah, of course it is. - Diversity is Strength, and this sh*t is good for you. - whatever crap it is that you are being spoon fed today...


23 posted on 06/30/2010 5:44:36 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Maelstorm

How about we just poke out the eyes of the men?


24 posted on 06/30/2010 5:47:35 AM PDT by Aggie Mama
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To: wendy1946

Oh, damn, that’s a winner! LOL!

I saw a full black burka clad one in the last year at my Costco. It was really jarring, I didn’t like it a bit.

I really will try to remember that for next time. You don’t know me, but trust me, I would say that in public.


25 posted on 06/30/2010 6:06:05 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: wendy1946
I have only seen one woman whos entire head and face was covered with only her eyes showing out of her hajib. She was at the medical center in the waiting room. I doubt if she spoke English. I did not see a man with her and I thought muslim women were not supposed to go out alone.
26 posted on 06/30/2010 6:24:45 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: R. Scott

Our family is conservative Christian.

My wife wears a head scarf that covers her hair (1st Corinthians 11). It doesn’t cover her face, neither does it cover her neck, but it does cover her head and hair.

Banning headscarves is authoritarian nonsense.

Most people walk around with little more than underwear, and you want to make a law to punish those who cover up?

Sounds upside down to me.

You can wear (or unwear) whatever you like.

Please allow us the same choice.


27 posted on 06/30/2010 6:25:58 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: R. Scott

Our family is conservative Christian.

My wife wears a head scarf that covers her hair (1st Corinthians 11). It doesn’t cover her face, neither does it cover her neck, but it does cover her head and hair.

Banning headscarves is authoritarian nonsense.

Most people walk around with little more than underwear, and you want to make a law to punish those who cover up?

Sounds upside down to me.

You can wear (or unwear) whatever you like.

Please allow us the same liberty.


28 posted on 06/30/2010 6:26:21 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Maelstorm

If we are only forcing liberal women to wear it, I’m in favor!


29 posted on 06/30/2010 6:32:12 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Maelstorm; Revolting cat!

Part II “Liberating women through honor killings”


30 posted on 06/30/2010 7:16:57 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: rbg81
Feminists these days are so twisted, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them embrace it.

Feminazis held burn the bra rallies but you won't see them holding burn the hijab rallies.

31 posted on 06/30/2010 7:19:15 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Westbrook

Of course we could ban Muslims from entering the USA and expel those living here on the basis of National Security.


32 posted on 06/30/2010 7:22:54 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: Slyfox
Some women really do look better in a hijab:

When you've got a face like Howdy Doody you need a little more !

33 posted on 06/30/2010 8:09:47 AM PDT by jimt
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To: Ronbo1948

> Of course we could ban Muslims from entering the USA and
> expel those living here on the basis of National Security.

My dad was an Italian immigrant who entered the US as a teen in the 1930s.

When the war broke out, he was not allowed to have a camera or a radio. In fact, the FBI visited him and confiscated those items. As an Italian national, he was not allowed to join the US Armed Forces or work in the defense sector, either. At that time, the only hiring being done was in the defense sector, and he made his living doing photo portraits and wedding shoots.

Nevertheless, my father loved the US and never went to visit Italy, even though he became a US citizen and could come and go as he pleased.

Mohammedans who do not believe in the rabid droolings of the Polygamous Pedophile Pirate should be allowed to stay, but with certain privileges, like access to cell phones and the internet, curtailed until the Islamo-fascists are defeated.

Islamo-nazis that preach hatred from mosques or circulate Mohamhead literature should be deported to someplace like Somalia or quarrantined at Gitmo.


34 posted on 06/30/2010 8:10:42 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Maelstorm
He added that the findings showed that men's desire for women was part of ‎evolution. ‎

Wow, that's simply amazing if not groundbreaking.

35 posted on 06/30/2010 8:24:57 AM PDT by corlorde (New Hampshire)
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To: skr
Looks of wonder? They were probably wondering if she (or he) were a suicide bomber.

She’s just an attention junky, when the bikini stopped working she switched to something menacing. “Look at ME, I am so special!”.

36 posted on 06/30/2010 9:06:25 AM PDT by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: Westbrook

Sounds like a reasonable compromise...After all, many Muslims come here to escape the Jihadists...But the radicals and the preachers of hate either go to Gitmo or back to Muzzieland.

Sorry about your dad being stepped on by the FBI. I’ll bet he came here to get away from Mussolini.


37 posted on 06/30/2010 9:39:18 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: rbg81
I’ve seen this line of reasoning before. By draping women in tents, you make them all “equal” in the eyes of men. Of course, you also make them totally devoid of individuality—in short, you strip them of their femininity and turn them into annonymous entities that are shapeless and interchangable.

I presume you've never seen the hijab styles from countries outside of the Arab world, otherwise you wouldn't make such a broad statement.

Muslim women in countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. wear very colorful, beautiful hijabs in all colors of the rainbow. These women are not shapeless and interchangable.

It seems to me that many of your either have a problem with women covering their cleavage with a scarf or have no idea that a hijab, burka and niqab are totally different headcoverings!

38 posted on 06/30/2010 10:31:07 AM PDT by Tamar1973 (Germans in 1932 thought they were voting for change too.)
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To: goat granny
Perhaps the women are forced to wear it because they refuse to bath or dress decently and never wash their hair. The perfect covering......for muslim men ashamed muslim women..

Not really the case. Even some of the strictest Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kuwait have lots of high-fashion shops that do well. That's because the women tend to dress very stylishly underneath their chadoors or various coverings. They have parties with only other women present and the coverings come off, allowing them to display the clothing, hairstyles and jewelry. I hear it can get quite competitive. :)

I still think the summers in the Middle East are far hot for all of those clothes, though.

39 posted on 06/30/2010 10:37:36 AM PDT by Allegra (My seventh chakra is oppressed.)
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To: wendy1946

I’ll subscribe to your newsletter too! ;-)


40 posted on 06/30/2010 10:50:36 AM PDT by esquirette ("Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." ~ Augustine)
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