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PoindexterOglethorpe

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10. Here's the real problem.

Sun Jan 6, 2019, 01:24 PM

Jan 2019

There are countries that require women be covered and don't give them a choice. So, if I go to Saudi Arabia and I have to be fully veiled, then a Saudi woman in this country needs to conform to our dress code. Which means no veiling. I even think the head scarves are stupid.

It is hard for me to believe that a woman actually freely chooses to be veiled if she has grown up in our culture, or even lived in it for any number of years. I guess childhood indoctrination really is nearly impossible to overcome.

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Should Burqa's Be Banned? [View all] Soph0571 Jan 2019 OP

If men were forced by their wives to walk around with bags over their heads with eyeholes cut Squinch Jan 2019 #1

I agree.. It's a conundrum. But if I can only pick one, I say ban. 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2019 #2

You cannot reconcile it without knowing if it is truely the woman's choice, or if she has been still_one Jan 2019 #3

I'm okay with a ban as well as janterry Jan 2019 #4

No. shanny Jan 2019 #5

I think yes. Chemisse Jan 2019 #6

Complicated... TreasonousBastard Jan 2019 #7

Somehow a frilly hat at Easter -- and is that even still a thing? PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2019 #9

Did you not get the larger point? TreasonousBastard Jan 2019 #11

I don't think there's a larger point. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2019 #12

Banned - yes. Conundrum - no. Merlot Jan 2019 #8

Here's the real problem. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2019 #10

We can't ban them because we have so called relgious freedom. efhmc Jan 2019 #13