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Things I have been thinking about.
Jun. 27th, 2009 07:50 pmRadio Four had an Any Questions with one of the questions being How Dare Those Stupid Muslim Women Wear Burkas In Our Nice Clean Country? I paraphrase, but that's the gist of the response. It was all very circumspect, but the overall answers amounted to the following:
A. Muslim women wear Muslim dress because they are forced to by men.
B. Those Muslim women who *want* to wear it are saddening because they don't know any better. (The answers just did not encompass the idea of Muslim women having any agency at all).
C. Muslims need to fit in with Our Way Of Life, which includes complete religious tolerance as long as you don't display Islamic dress.
D. All Muslims come from Saudi Arabia or Iran.
E. Showing flesh is also a bit sad. Just not as sad as covering up.
F. The only positive outcome of wearing concealing dress is not revealing your age and lack of conventional attractiveness.
I was not impressed. There also wasn't any attempt to explain what a burka *is*, and how it compares to a niqab or a hijab, so I got the impression that the talk was encompassing the latter two under the name of the former.
It's raining! It just started now. The strawberry plants will like that.
I left Sessifet in the lurch: I got halfway through cleaning the oven and faded out, then forgot *all* about it until this evening when I went down and found the oven clean and used. Oops. I won't blame Sessifet at all for being miffed. I left three punnets of strawberries out to go mouldy, too. They were going to be Surprise Milkshake for Pol and Arwen last night. Oh well.
A. Muslim women wear Muslim dress because they are forced to by men.
B. Those Muslim women who *want* to wear it are saddening because they don't know any better. (The answers just did not encompass the idea of Muslim women having any agency at all).
C. Muslims need to fit in with Our Way Of Life, which includes complete religious tolerance as long as you don't display Islamic dress.
D. All Muslims come from Saudi Arabia or Iran.
E. Showing flesh is also a bit sad. Just not as sad as covering up.
F. The only positive outcome of wearing concealing dress is not revealing your age and lack of conventional attractiveness.
I was not impressed. There also wasn't any attempt to explain what a burka *is*, and how it compares to a niqab or a hijab, so I got the impression that the talk was encompassing the latter two under the name of the former.
It's raining! It just started now. The strawberry plants will like that.
I left Sessifet in the lurch: I got halfway through cleaning the oven and faded out, then forgot *all* about it until this evening when I went down and found the oven clean and used. Oops. I won't blame Sessifet at all for being miffed. I left three punnets of strawberries out to go mouldy, too. They were going to be Surprise Milkshake for Pol and Arwen last night. Oh well.
