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Burka - Studies of Islam - Posted: 12th Aug, 2009 - 8:05pm
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I believe the fundamentalist Muslims will accept nothing less of their women. As far as I understand you are supposed to have a veil over your face and hair if you are an unwed woman. If you are a married woman the face part may be exposed. I can understand the fear many have with this mode of dress because it conceals identity and the type of dress allows you to hide weapons or even a bomb. This the debate, which one is more important: security protocols or religious protocols.
Below is an image of a Burka worn by a woman in Afghanistan. The Muslims there will not even let their eyes be exposed.
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That is way to extreme. I mean like what do muslim men have to fear so mcuh from their women that they have to cover them up like that?
Post Date: 25th Jul, 2009 - 6:49pm / Post ID: #
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I believe that there are extremists in this too. I know in some parts a woman can not go uncovered married or unmarried outside her home. They are second class citizens and must obey any male of the family. They must be totally covered head to toe.
In other places the women walk around like women in the states. They can wear pretty much what they like as long as they do not expose themselves. They are not second class citizens in they do not have to obey the males. But I know they have to obey their father or husband.
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What do you all think about this Muslim woman who was not allowed to wear her "burquini" in a pool in France?
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| PARIS - A Muslim woman who tried to go swimming in a head-to-toe "burquini" has been banned from her local pool in the latest tussle between religious practices and secular authority in France. Officials on Wednesday insisted they banned the woman's use of the Islam-friendly swimsuit because of France's unusually strict hygiene standards in pools - not because of official hostility to wearing overtly Muslim garb. Under the policy, swimmers are prevented from wearing any street-compatible or baggy clothing, such as Bermuda shorts, in favor of figure-hugging suits. The woman, a 35-year-old convert to Islam identified only as Carole, complained of religious discrimination after trying to go swimming in her burquini in the Paris suburb of Emerainville. She was quoted as telling the daily Le Parisien newspaper that she had bought the burquini after deciding "it would allow me the pleasure of bathing without showing too much of myself, as Islam recommends." "For me this is nothing but segregation," she added. The issue of religious attire is a hot topic in France, where head-to-toe burqas or other full-body coverings worn by Muslim fundamentalists are in official disfavor. French lawmakers recently proposed a ban on the burqa and other voluminous Muslim attire. President Nicolas Sarkozy backs the move, saying such clothing makes women prisoners. But Daniel Guillaume, a regional official in charge of swimming pools, said Carole's poolside rebuff had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with public health standards.... |
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I first can ot figure out how you could swim in one but wade perhaps. I do think they are within their rights to refuse as the clothing can clog the pumps and filters with the threads from the material. If she could get a "burquini" in nylon then perhaps it would be different.
I am sure they woudl just say the loose clothing then is a safety issue is she gets wrapped up in it and can not swim.
Insurance liability is the usual drive in cases like this from what I have seen in my area.
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