This is a good example of culture clash. I wouldn't be caught dead in either outfit. Most of us are in-between. I fully support the right of each woman to wear what they want, but seriously, they both look ridiculous. How many of you would walk into work in either garment?
As Canadians we need to help the women who come from different cultures to adjust. That doesn't mean they have to parade around in bikinis, but it does mean that we stand up against sharia laws being implemented in our country. We need to reach out our hands to women from other cultures, who have been oppressed. We need to let them know that they can remove those veils without fear. We also need to send a very strong message to the oppressors that we will not tolerate any form of sharia law in our country, and that women are equal, in all respects, and at all times.
I wonder why the feminists don't feel the same way?
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Where has sharia law been enacted in Canada?
Good question, Hunter. I have always posed the question as to why the feminists don't touch the Afghanistan issue, the female circumcism issue, or the persuasion of Canadian women to wear a niqab or even the burka while living here. Instead, they focus on the funding of 'women's issues', hatred of Stephen Harper or the alleged erosion of women's rights in Canada. When it comes to real women's issues and real abuse of women, the feminists are strangely silent. The only woman whose voice I've ever heard regarding the burka is that of Mavis Leno and she's not even a feminist. I would have to surmise that our local feminists have no interest in the lives of other women, as long as they have funding to continue to hate PM Harper.
Amen to that.I am an older adult and i am leery of these bandit outfits.Is their a man behind the mask or a woman,you never know with these people.Imagine our children must be terrified.
The laws should not allow us to discriminate.
I have no difficulty if people want to wear
a) nothing
b) a super hero outfit
c) historical cultural offensive clothing
We should NOT fund the lawsuits with our tax dollars against employers who don't want to hire, retain those employees.
If you want to work, attend school they can find an school, employer willing to hire, admit them.
My concern is for the person to pay for their own legal bills through private donation without taxpayers bearing the cost.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1828&dat=19920720&id=H4AgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HqcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5058,2527035
Maybe you will send a very strong message to the oppressors of Amish, Orthodox Jewish women and Catholic nuns too. Or maybe you'll just tell those whose dress code is part of their religious/ethnic identity to stop their preening and conform!
Mystereeoso - you can at least see the faces of the women belonging to the other groups you mention. How comfortable would you feel serving someone who was unidentifiable because of his or her garb? Not to mention that understanding that person could be iffy because of the muffling effect of the cloth.
It's also - ironically - a power thing on the part of the wearer: "I can see and identify you, but you have no right to see and identify me".
"...the female circumcism issue..."
No such thing. It's mutilation, pure and simple.
why the feminists don't touch the Afghanistan issue, the female circumcism issue, or the persuasion of Canadian women to wear a niqab or even the burka while living here.
Try googling.
the Afghanistan issue,
the female circumcism issue.
It does seem though that the burka is being used to try and bludgeon the feminists. There is no end of hits for "where are the feminists" pages, claiming that feminists think the burka is just fine, when of course I have not yet found any actual statements of that kind by any feminist. Usually they say it is not the clothing that matters, it is why it is being worn. Requiring women to wear bikinis is just as oppressive as requiring burkas.
But it seems to be where the straw women are being constructed these days. Not too many feminists support banning the burka outright any more than they support banning bikinis. Most will support common sense though, so using a burka to hide your identity is out, and any kind of forced wearing (or not wearing) of clothing is out.
Remember on Star Trek, the Ferengi thought it was terrible that the humans forced their females to wear clothing? "Dressing your women only invites others to undress them".
Frances, that's what I was trying to get at, but you said it better, it's a power thing.
"...the female circumcism issue..."
No such thing. It's mutilation, pure and simple.
Okay, so pigs really can fly. I agree with SQ 100% on this one. It is a horrible tradition, commited by women on young girls - no doubt it originated with some insecure male.
I am not Muslim but I do know enough from Muslim friends and relatives that Islam does not require a women to cover herself. The hijab, niquab, burka, chador and abaya are man-made rules. Modesty is required but that modesty does not require the extremes.
I do not, for one second, feel that requiring a woman to reveal her face is an infringement on a woman's religious rights. Look at it this way - in Saudi Arabia, women must be covered when out in public and they are not allowed to drive. So, if we consider facial covering to be a right, then being prohibited from driving must go along with it - after all, that's how it is in the most Muslim country of all, right?
You bleeding hearts who stand up for a woman's 'right' to cover herself and always men or, at the very least, women who DO NOT EVER cover themselves. Hypocrites.
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