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The Liberating Shrouds of Tunisia

January 8, 2011

Religious coercion threatens Tunisian women A number of Tunisian women feel forced to adopt religious practices in attire and behaviour. Experts, however, question the legality and Islamic authenticity of the phenomena. By Jamel Arfaoui for Magharebia in Tunis – 07/01/11 (thanks to the RoP) Fitzgerald: Tunisia and the Monitoring of Islam: Tunisian police are stopping [...]

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Niqab “forbidden?” Not. What does the Koran really say about the veil?

November 17, 2010

Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowment Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq: Wearing the Niqab Is Forbidden in Islam Not so.  My Koran from the ‘King Fahd Academy’ must not be doubted. And besides, the Saudis call the shots: Surah 33. AlAhzab,  59 O prophet! Tell your wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their [...]

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Time to Ban the Veil: The Chilling Lesson from the Elizabeth Smart Case

November 16, 2010

Hidden in plain sight/Phyllis Chesler He hid her in plain sight. Her face was on posters plastered all over Utah, her kidnapping had launched one of the greatest manhunts in American history. Nevertheless, Brian Mitchell, the man who kidnapped 14 year-old Elizabeth Smart at knife-point in her bedroom actually got away with it for nine [...]

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“Freedom to wear hijab” must include the freedom to reject it

June 2, 2010

MEMRI Muslim French Intellectuals Criticize Obama’s Statement on the Hijab “We seem to have forgotten the blood-soaked days in my country of origin, Algeria, when women were slaughtered for [choosing not to wear the veil] in his June 4, 2009 Cairo speech, U.S. President Hussein Obama emphasized that Muslim women in the U.S. are free [...]

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Feelings hurt: “French muslims [sic] feel stigmatized in veil row…”

April 26, 2010

Shocker: French Muslims complain of feeling “stigmatized” after woman fined for driving with vision obscured by niqab The rules of “rock-paper-scissors” are more grounded in reality: here, hurt feelings trump safety behind the wheel. Indeed, this case is so much like others in which practices in the Muslim world, or by Muslims who continue those [...]

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Belgian govt collapses amid veil ban threat after France – UPDATED

April 23, 2010

The Battle Over The Freedom Sack H/T Islam in Europe Belgian government collapsed as MPs are set to vote on a proposed ban on wearing face-covering veils in public, a day after France move. Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme’s five-month-old government collapsed on Thursday after the Flemish liberal party pulled out of his coalition. The [...]

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Italian foreign minister: “Let’s ask ourselves if covering one’s face isn’t the first sign of refusal to integrate and closing oneself off… from the host community and its traditions”

January 29, 2010

FINALLY! France and Italy have something to resent more than Americans. Franco speaking! Franco my man! Unfortunately, Franco is no Geert Wilders. Those of us who have been keeping an eye on Frattini know that he is a limp dick who swings in either direction.  He is merely testing the water with his statements which [...]

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Poll Results: Is the veil a matter of choice?

August 20, 2009

59 % said no, never 12 % said yes, its ‘portable seclusion’-freedom! 16 % believe the wrong choice could get them killed 13 % (!)  believe uncovered women “burn in hell” Looks like this blog attracts a great number of Muslims. The answers are rather troubling. New poll coming up, stay tuned!

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