Compulsory
I hate being told what to do. I believe in free choice. If you don’t
like what others do, but they aren’t hurting you, learn to deal with it.
Schoolgirls stopped from leaving fire because they weren’t wearing headscarves
(BBC News)
A closer look at the iconic headscarf (Fashion Section, The Independent)
There can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right” and the Amish and others like them are “wrong.” A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
Opinion by Warren Burger, Chief Justice, US Supreme Court
The lie of compulsory female heterosexuality today afflicts not just feminist scholarship, but every profession, every reference work, every curriculum, every organizing attempt, every relationship or conversation over which it hovers. It creates, specifically, a profound falseness, hypocrisy, and hysteria… in the queasy strobe light of that lie.
Qotation from Adrienne Rich, Blood, Bread and Poetry
August 5th, 2008 at 1:50 am
i hadn’t heard about that fire. horrifying story.
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August 5th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Damn right Sera, I’m 110% with you on this one.
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August 5th, 2008 at 4:57 am
I couldn’t agree with you more. Anarchy is looking more and more like the only rational response to the idiocy of so-called democracy.
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August 5th, 2008 at 7:22 am
There are always those who believe they know How Things Must Be Done. The unbelievable part is that others let them get away with it.
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August 5th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Free choice and anarchy are a far cry from each other i think. And if you hate democracy so much why not move to Saudi Arabia.
It is amazing that so many people spend so much time worrying about what other people wear or how they do their makeup. Just chill out and do your own thing.
Man that is some horrible shit that went down in Saudi Arabia. I keep hearing how these Islamic extremist governments are just misunderstood and not as bad as all that. Are you kidding me? That story is a perfect example of how extremism in any religion is so not a good idea. To allow the death of children just because they are female and not wearing the proper attire is just ludicrous. I can do without that kind of government thank you very much.
The funny thing about today’s youth is they seem to get that our government is flawed but they don’t bother to learn why and figure out how to change it. It’s a problem for someone else to fix right? With that attitude nothing will change. Or rather everything will change. Our government has been moving slowly but surely from a representative democracy to a cross between communism and fascism. And its going to happen because no one cares about keeping the government in check anymore and they know it.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:10 am
My comment is just this clip…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmS0y9_T0Ug
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August 5th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I am exactally like you….
a kiss
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August 5th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I didn’t hear about that story on the fire. That is just a damn shame. For me, when lives are on the line, all religion, beliefs and principles go right out the window. What’s the good in sticking to the rule of wearing headscarves if they’re dead/dying? Unbelievable…
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August 5th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
What a shame that the people who impose their opinions and beliefs on others are usually the ones who are really close-minded.
August 5th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
In so far as schools are concerned is the Hijab an iconic emblem of defiance or is a right to express ones deep religious belief/faith?
Another view that folk often cite here in Australia is it’s inappropriate for headscarves to be worn at schools as Muslim girls, like other children, should wear a uniform, (where there is designated uniform for a particular school) and that special rules shouldn’t be made for them. But it is generally agreed it’s not all practical or sensible to have a prohibition, since if you ban a headscarf you might for consistency’s sake have to ban a yarmulke or a turban, so that it all becomes very impractical.
The forced wearing of the Hijab is a reflection of that culture of that country and a not the Islamic faith itself which as far as I can understand from scholars makes no such demands. Those wearing the hijab wish to do so freely, in effect the exemply an inner character and faith.
Best wishes
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August 5th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
This is a twisted post, but I like it.
I am sick and tired of “Arabisms”, the culture belongs to the museum.
Just imagine what the skillful hands of a Persian carpet maker would have created if only allowed to also depict animals and humans in the motives. It would have been stunning. But Islamic doctrine prevented it from happening.
The burka is fine if you choose freely to use it, but to make it a law for woman to get clad that way, oppressing. Yes, I do see a difference between woman that have to wrap themselves up in cloths by Muslim law and legislature, and the “Western-law” that prevents people to wear uniforms.
Nobody tells me to wear a tie here, just an other extension of my dick…
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August 9th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I agree with you, free choice is the best policy! But I’m not sure that in Islamic families women have free choice…
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