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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (123565)	1/22/2004 9:52:10 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Mq - I am feeling too consarnedly (Americanism?) lazy to prove that I am right but if I recall correctly one of the things that the late Shah of Iran did that did him in was to insist that Muslim women take off their headscarves in public. I am close to 100% sure of this and having a deuced awful time keeping my fingers off google. What you and I consider to be the "naughty bits" are culturally mandated. For Muslims, the hair of the head of a sexually mature woman is a "naughty bit." Sikhs and Orthodox Jews don't have quite the same rationale; as far as I can see the commandment to cover the head has little or nothing to do with sex. Forcing a nubile woman to show her "naughty bits" to all and sundry is a grotesque violation of her human rights. On that, perhaps, we can agree, even if we differ as to what the "naughty bits" are. My husband wears a three inch long cross made out of olive wood strung on a leather strip all day long every day. According to the law we're talking about, that would be illegal. I don't know what he'd do if someone ordered him to take it off, but I do know that even though I don't really care, personally, whether he wears it or not, I'd fight to the death for his right to wear it. Seriously. Literally. Death, although I'd much prefer it never came to that. No, it's not a "naughty bit" nor anything to do with one. It's just him, and he has every right to be him. He is a GS14, probably no real chance of becoming a GS15 (more money) as long as he wears it, but those are the breaks.