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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: tejek who wrote (95464)6/26/2011 8:11:02 PM
From: ChinuSFO  Read Replies (2) of 149317
 
I know this may be hard for you to believe but some women want to wear the burka.

Yes indeed, some women also were led to believe that it was honorable to jump on the lit pyre. If you asked that "ready to jump" woman she would certainly have said that she was proud to do so and that she was "doing so out of her own free will." That is what I consider balloney. The fact of the matter is that the social pressure is so high that they are lead to believe that "it is a pride to wear the burkha."

The burkha is a social issue, not a religious issue. It signifies the suppression of the woman by man.

Consider Osama's first and fourth wife. The first does not wear the burkha any more. It is very likely she did so when she was younger and was under social pressures. But now she is not. She is not a sex object anymore. Now look at the youngest one. Consider Mrs. Bhutto. She did not wear a burkha. She was too powerful for a man to tell her to do so. There are many such incidences in the Indian subcontinent. The burkha issue is deeper than the growing of hair curls and piercing bodies. Those are done with a "free will". Burkha is a practice due to social pressures where men are trying to dominate the women. We need to tell the Muslim men "to man up"

Now you cannot ban a social issue similar to the situation with banning prostitution. That is why "sati" continues to be a practice in remote villages.
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