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To: Dale Baker who wrote (40932)	9/3/2007 11:14:00 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541520

Maybe he thinks women should have a choice instead of being persecuted if they don't follow a harsh version of Islamic law. Something to do with democracy and rights. Yeah, I wonder about whether the pressure to wear a veil amongst Muslim women is right or wrong. My inclination is to say that pressuring a woman to wear a veil when a man has no such pressure is wrong. But then I think women at a pool in the US have to wear tops, and men can go shirtless. That doesn't seem wrong.....so why do I think it is wrong when women are socially encouraged to veil themselves? I agree that women shouldn't be forced to wear veils in Iraq, but what's the difference between social pressure to veil yourself in Iraq and social pressure to not go topless at the pool in Kansas? And, in fact, women are coerced to not go topless in Kansas, and if they insist on going topless they'll probably get ticketed then arrested for indecent exposure. People in Kansas think a woman's breast is indecent, and enough people in Iraq think a woman's bare head is indecent. You can say that the voters of Kansas were the ones that decided that the bare breast is indecent, so it's OK. But if we let Muslim provinces in Iraq vote on that type of thing, you'd likely see the veil made mandatory in lots of places, booze banned, and other stuff we would object to. Personally, I think that'd be a great process for them to go through, and over the years politicians could run on removing (or implementing) the veil requirement, and the country would slowly approach adopting the majority view. That kind of thing can take generations, however.