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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (118936)	8/22/2012 1:16:34 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

You know Mac. You probably know that in India some 200 years ago there was the practice of sati. The Hindu society those days convinced the widow that it was very honorable for her to jump into the lit pyre of her departed husband and accompany him to heaven. Many women did it with pride. I consider that hey did so because they were brain washed by society which included her brothers-in-law, her brothers and men folks. The British banned that practice later on. Now take that to the hijab scenario. I see many young women being told to cover their hair. I have heard advocates of the Muslim faith proclaim on TV that it is only the husband, brothers and father (among men) who should be seeing her in her natural form. Now I have asked some Muslims women here in the US. Some say they do so with pride, while others have said they do so because if they don't they will be considered an outcast. That is what I am against. Look at those honor killings that have occurred from time to time. Aren't they indicative of a messed up social thinking? Women here in the US have many rights that in the land of Benazir Bhutto, Indira Gandhi and Srimavo Bandranaile as well as Aung San Suu Ki.