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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (94721)4/19/2003 7:56:54 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>Wearing the veil is a political statement<<

The above statement, while no doubt well-intentioned, is false. It may be true in America, if the woman who wears the veil has personal power in her own home, or it may not be true, because her father or husband may require her to wear a veil on penalty of being beaten.

In many Islamic cultures, it is illegal, on pain of death, to appear in public without the veil.

Last year in Saudi Arabia, several young women burned to death in a school fire because the police would not let them out of the burning building without a veil.

In Afghanistan, under the Taliban, women who exposed an ankle were beated in public by the Taliban enforcers.

I thought you believed in human rights. But not for women?
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