The Veil in America

A lawsuit stops discrimination against Muslim women in Omaha.

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• hijab
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• islam
• muslim
• discrimination
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• arab
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• niqab
• burqa
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• kasaby

[danielnz1]

There's nothing written in any good book of man!

Even the bible or qua ran!

That woman must hide their smiles like sin,

from all! Bar a few, often, chosen for them.

[kasaby]

Daniel: Not all "veils" cover a woman's face. There are different beliefs regarding this issue. I agree with you that no one should be forced to cover if they do not want to. However, if they voluntarily choose to cover their hair, or even their face, we must respect that.

[madhoyden]

What about marital rape?

[miraohira]

Freedom of religion is the law of the land. I would not ever want to restrict the religious freedom of anyone else. There are devout Christian women who would not want to be seen in a swimsuit in public. There is a verse in the New Testament that says that making another sin against their conscience in such matters is a sin in itself, for example if one believes it is wrong to eat such & such a food, you should not force them to do it.

[MrHUM4N]

Nice freedom Americans, screw you

[rnstuffy]

good info. I assume men were less educated in those days and more likely unable to restrain their sexual urges. Why in the world or where in the world would veils be required in modern day.

[fredroypoulin]

Yes, the burka is the best to have sex, especially if your wife is ugly.

[fredroypoulin]

Totally true, I think most muslims, especially unmmaried young man are sexually frustrated since they can't have a girlfriend(officially) they have to go to prostitute wich gives them a bad view of women en general. Imagine when they go on a porno site, they must become crazy and then when they see an uncovered women...

[danielnz1]

"The more women veil the less men learn to behave as decent and civilized members of society," Mona Eltahawy said. Egypt is 2nd worst country globally for such harassments, only Afganistans Taliban influences in forcing women behind the veil rates worse! Increase in veiling clearly contributes to increases in sexual groping. The more covered up women are it now seems the more stimulating to men with low morals and self-control.

[fredroypoulin]

Are you saying that egytian men are sexual maniacs?

[danielnz1]

Egyptian Center for Women's Rights says harassment in Egypt's a virtual certainty. 98% of foreign, and 83% of Egyptian women said they had been sexually harassed! Survey found women in hijab were most frequent targets of unwanted comments and touching 72% of those who described incidents of harassment said they were veiled at the time.

[danielnz1]

There's nothing written in any book of man!

Even the bible or qua ran!

That woman must hide their smiles like sin,

from all! Bar a few, often, chosen for them.

[danielnz1]

Mesopotamian societies after Sumerian times (2000yrs before Islam) began to impose the veil on noble women when in public. The first recorded instance of veiling for women is recorded in an Assyrian legal text in 13th century BC, restricting its use to noble women assuring certain basic protections but clearly emphasizing limits and inferiority and forbade the veil to prostitutes and common women. Early Greek texts have also spoken of veiling practiced among the Persian elite.