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To: epicure who wrote (235754)	7/9/2007 5:17:10 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Wouldn't you have to be a Muslim to come out and say it's a righteous and good thing? I think you have to buy the religion and be in the fold to make a pronouncement like that. I, looking in, can say "I've heard Muslim women say it makes them feel protected, or more spiritual". So some Muslim women say it's a good thing. Other Muslim women don't like it. There don't seem to be a lot of Muslims on SI, male or female. If you wanted an opinion on this you should probably ask some Muslims. You can form an opinion from the outside. The world told South Africa slavery was wrong. You can have a view whether Scientologist's aversion to Psychiatry is a good or bad policy. You can decide whether you think a religious rule that women should cover their head while men have no such restriction is a good rule, a bad rule, or an I don't know enough about it rule. Think of a Muslim woman in San Diego walking around in the heat in full black hijab with only eye slits. If she is dressed that way because her religious leader told her that was the appropriate way to dress in public, you can have an opinion on that religious rule of dress. All those Heaven's Gate (or whatever it was called) cult people that put on purple Nikes and killed themselves when the comet came by about 15-20 years ago, you can have an opinion on that religious rule. Seems to have been a bad one to me.