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Originally Posted by jaxie

I'd like to mention the opposing views that Muslim women are demonised for wearing the burqa and that they are disrespectful to wear it.

I think that you are both completely wrong. Women don't choose to wear religious garb through some form of ancient modesty and they certainly don't do it to piss anyone off or be offensive. Women are taught to believe they must wear these garments to be modest by men. It is religious uniform, religious conditioning and a form of control exercised by men raised with very mysogionistic beliefs.

I don't want to make this thread about a Muslim woman's attire, we already have numerous threads about that and it doesn't need this thread to add to that.

Education is desperately needed on this not appeasement or ridicule.

The post above is right when it says we don't own Islam but we do own the right of equality for all women where we live and those women who are raised in mysogionistic beliefs should have those rights and an education to match them also.

My point, in my opening post, was about the excuses we now use to demonize Muslims and how this demonization is recent. Since the beheadings, we all heard about in Syria and the murder of people on our own shores we spend an awful lot of time typing on our PC's about the segregation of Muslim women. So, my point was, lets forget about that (at least in this thread) and lets get down to the nitty gritty of what happened, why it happened and is still happening and I don't mean women wearing hijab!