If you think somehow what happened is justifed because in this one attack a women began the stoning, then you must be living under a blanket yourself.
I think Burkas are the very thing people look at when they say religion is wrong. I personally have seen the good side of religion, be it Muslim, Christian etc. In this case we can say 'no religion, no burka', to say it is cultural is true but religion IS the culture. The thing to remember is that when something is happening all around you it is surprising what can be viewed as normal. The women in France DEMANDING to wear a burka are mostly converts looking to bust balls. These people are doing nothing for your religion, just as radical Christians do nothing for it. When i am referring to burkas i am talking about those that cover the eyes, wearing a veil over the face with eyes showing is much different. Maybe i am missing something.
There are many innovations of the Hijab; no single one can describe it. As for this: its not a problem for them or the other Muslims where they use it culturally. Where they don't have options, they have far bigger problems to worry about than the hijab. Suffice to say, making an issue of it is not helping them; quite the reverse.
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Do they cover their faces too? To avoid being attacked by hordes of angry or lusting or outraged women?
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Justified? Never. No one should ever be forced to dress a certain way to fulfil the interpretation of another. The hijab should be individual. My point, which you keep missing over and over again, is that if it were men who were forcing women to wear the hijab as a form of domination and control over their person, it would not have been a woman who cast that first stone.
"By the time she had passed the turnip and tomato stalls of Yang-e-Qale town, a crowd of jeering men had formed. It was a woman who delivered the first blow, then the men joined in" Why do you think it was a women who delivered the first blow?
She was also afraid of getting her ass beat by the mob of sandpeoples. James R, why did you give a infraction for this? What is wrong with calling someone sandpeoples?
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Bells: Ok. So Muslim men, and to a lesser extent, women, in Middle-Eastern countries coerce women to wear the hijab. To argue that such coercion doesn't exist is delusional.
I did not argue that it does not exist. I argued that it should not. Does it exist in the wider ME countries however? Muslim men and women admit that Governments which enforce the hijab are going against the teachings of the Quran. I would imagine that the fervent supporters of such regimes, both male and female, do take things to heart enough that a woman would cast that first stone. Remember when I said earlier in the thread about individual interpretation? The Quran does not specify that a hijab had to be worn. It does, however, specify modesty and it is left to the individual to define what they consider to be modest.
