I thought Syrians were MUSLIMS???

[ToughGong]

seemer


u think i have an 18th century fetish? I just had an orgasm when i read your comment. Walaahi it is a fetish, there is no other way to describe it.

In the words of Aw Kadleeye "Waa maxay naagtan magaalo joogta xumi!!!!
Naa nagatag waxyahay waalaan.Maaney cidi ku dhalin "

I meant to dis her and she's talking about orgasm iyo balaayo

[SultanOrder]

We live in very interesting times where people strap bombs to themselves and blow themselves up in crowded civilian areas. And the scary part is this, it is a very real threat that some one wearing an abaya could be loaded with bombs especially in the ME. Very scary wallahi

[LobsterUnit]

I thought some people on here were Muslims.

[2ndtoNone]

On the contrary, the Qu'ran states that women should dress modestly our of doors.There is no mention of covering their whole body including their faces, ankles and even hands.
Modern islamic dress comes from Persia. The origins of the hijab is that in pre-Islamic Persia, there was a law that only free-born women were allowed to veil their faces, and servants, slaves, prostitutes and other non-free women were barred from wearing a veil.

In Ancient Persia and Greece a man's wives and concubines were his property and were generally not allowed to be seen by any other man. In their house the women were literally curtained off and if they went outside a special curtained-off cart would be their form of transportation.

The hijab is essentially just this Persian cultural practice continuing to this day, preventing another man seeing his wife, with the veil showing her social status as a "respectable" woman.

Have you learned the qur'an well enough, the whole of the qur'an so as to know every verse whereby the dress code of women is mentioned/described? If so, please provide the verse(s) where it is mentioned that women should dress modestly out of doors!

[2ndtoNone]

the French bans the hijaab because of ''security'' but at the same time think it is perfectly ok for a person to tottaly deface his/her face beyond recognition( see below for an example) it is only a fool who will think the banning of the hijaab is anything but another strategy to humiliate muslims and eliminate islam from the west. SURE FOR ALL THEIR EFFORTS THEY WILL FAIL.

THEY PROMOTE THIS



BUT THEY BAN THIS




WHATTA A JOKE

[Paddington Bear]

Shirib
Just because natursits want to walk around nude does not mean it should be tolerated. Niqab is new to Syrian society, its growth could be due to popularity of political islam as an alternative to secularism (not democracy but dictatorship). Do you have a problem with female faces, are you happy to support a practice that reduces women to sex objects by taking away their identity? Why dont you try and walk with a bag over your head? There is no difference between men who want women to strip naked or to fully cover, both see women as sex objects because they define women through their bodies.

If you are not happy for men to force women to cover their faces, should you not (equally) be unhappy about men forcing women NOT to cover their faces? Why compare it with naturists when you could just look at both sides of the same coin here (niqab or no niqab)?

Whenever a government curtails the freedom of its people without any hint of consultation, it becomes a form of oppression all on its own. Don't let your dislike for the niqab blind you, dear.

(Trust Basra to come up with a worthy topic! What's the world coming to?).

[gobdoon]

there is no doubt banning Niqab is anti-islamic,ok we all agreed it's nothing to do with Islam but hey as some of us pointed out what about the freedom of the wearer where is the democracy in the west what will be next no Hijab,no growing beard etc I amm 100%sure it is Islamic phopia spreading in the west,but hey I don't argue with them and they are entitled to lay down the law of their land after all there are many muslim countries where white person can't work on the streets let alone breach their religion,The case for Syria is very simple it shows a leadership of a country who is puppet and sympathises anything or idea from the West after all Asad was a secularist so is his son who is in charge now and educated in Britain and his wife is American but I believe they are making big mistake on this isseue and may face a backclash as some on pointed out but then who has any guts to do anything against the authority in Syria hence MANDHOW CABADKA IGA DA CARABI WA NAAGE'.

[Paddington Bear]

I believe they are making big mistake on this isseue and may face a backclash as some on pointed out but then who has any guts to do anything against the authority in Syria hence MANDHOW CABADKA IGA DA CARABI WA NAAGE'.

How can there be a backlash if you already state that Carabi wa naage?

[kaasje7]

I thought some people on here were Muslims.

to be muslim you need longest beard and your woman need sexy niqab

[BlackVelvet]

It's a mistake to view the niqab as a "personal freedom," Bassam Qadhi, a Syrian women's rights activist, told local media recently.

"It is rather a declaration of extremism," Qadhi said.

Surely it's not about safety if you're banning it in schools and universities. It's about the niqab itself and its place in society. Someone said your face is your identity and they have a point. When a police office stops you and asks for your license you have to show your face, when you travel and go through security you have to show your face, surely when you're going for an interview you would also show your face. I'm a Muslim woman and even I don't think I'd hire someone whose face I didn't know. If one feels that a woman should not be seen in public then I think the best place for such a woman to be is in her home.

[Paddington Bear]

It's a mistake to view the niqab as a "personal freedom," Bassam Qadhi, a Syrian women's rights activist, told local media recently.

"It is rather a declaration of extremism," Qadhi said.

Surely it's not about safety if you're banning it in schools and universities. It's about the niqab itself and its place in society. Someone said your face is your identity and they have a point. When a police office stops you and asks for your license you have to show your face, when you travel and go through security you have to show your face, surely when you're going for an interview you would also show your face. I'm a Muslim woman and even I don't think I'd hire someone whose face I didn't know. If one feels that a woman should not be seen in public then I think the best place for such a woman to be is in her home.

What you say may have applied in the good old days when reasonable debates took place. Today, things have moved on and this has become an issue of freedom. There was an article in yesterday's TIMES by, of all people, the beauty tips editor! In it, she was arguing for the Niqab and saying that if people's choice there is (forcibly) limited then the same logic should apply to ladies who surgically enhance their bosoms or models that improve their appearance with makeup. Her reasoning was that both these practices are as about oppressing women as (some might say) the niqab.

All in all, the argument has moved from the simple (and reasonable) protest of having to see people’s faces into one that is loaded with political, ideological and racist undertones.

[Basra-]

PD... Give me a break. How can u put niqaab and boob job in the banner of 'oppression of women' ?? Its ilogic.Niqaab is a religious symbol that irritates the athiests who r reminded of God everytime they see it in the street. Also it is a fashion foux pax, it irritates the naked modern fashion of the athiest. This banning of niqaab is NOT for the benefit the so called oppressed muslim women, but for the benefits of the assimilated,faithless populus.I think its a bully tactic, like we have assimilated, how dare you not assimilate.


You are correct that this beauty tip editor should stick with her usual topics.

[S_lander-boy]

Basra I thought you was a muslim ?

[Basra-]

Lander i thought u were too, why r u being defensive on the faithless mission?

[Paddington Bear]

Basra I thought you was a muslim ?

What do you mean "thought", warya? Basra has never taken her niqaab off.