Nobel Peace Prize

[bluecat*dancing]

Congratulations to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi for winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-10/nobel-peace-prize-satyarthi-yousafzai-win/5805232

[i-need-a-martini]

I'll tell you what is a cheap shot lightning - that we (westerners sitting on our behinds) can spend 3 weeks arguing and making assumptions on here about how oppressed muslim women are because they cover up in the guise that 'we' are being politically helpful instead of using the issue of dress as a foil to our own prejudices.

And yet here is this girl who knows and has fought oppression in the areas that matter. But I doubt she would take off her coverings if she had a choice.

[polksaladallie]

http://girltalkhq.com/while-you-were-sleeping-malala-was-creating-a-literacy-app-for-girls/

This garment that Malala wears is designed so that the shayla can be used to cover the face at appropriate times.  As in this photo.

Not much different from a burqa/niqab.  But as someone here doesn't believe, burqas are not commonly worn in Pakistan.

This is the family of Malala, typical of Pakistani attire.

[i-need-a-martini]

And the only difference between her abala/hijab and the burka/niqab is a veil across her eyes.

[lightningdance]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

I'll tell you what is a cheap shot lightning - that we (westerners sitting on our behinds) can spend 3 weeks arguing and making assumptions on here about how oppressed muslim women are because they cover up in the guise that 'we' are being politically helpful instead of using the issue of dress as a foil to our own prejudices.

And yet here is this girl who knows and has fought oppression in the areas that matter. But I doubt she would take off her coverings if she had a choice.

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You made the cheap shot, you carried on your argument from another thread and now you are on here lecturing what others should do about "their" opinions which don't gell with yours, using the issue of dress as a foil to our own prdjudices?? look to yourself.

[i-need-a-martini]

I won't argue muslim dress on this thread because it takes away from the intent of the thread. However you are welcome to discuss it on the new thread I just started.

But my comment was a pertinent obervation under the current poitical climate.

[lightningdance]

You are the one who brought muslim attire onto this thread to make a cheap shot. 

[polksaladallie]

Quite appropriate.  Malala is working hard to allow girls and women to free themselves from oppression, and that includes attire.

[goldenjet16]

What a brave and courageous woman. Women all over the world should be grateful to this young woman.

"Shot in the head by the radical islamic Taliban just for trying to get an education and standing up for girls and women all over the world and their plight to try to get an education.

Makes the prize Obama got look like what it was, a political prize for attaining high office because of his ethnicity."


Well said! And the truth about the Pres.... Still don't know what he did to win the Nobel prize.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@goldenjet16 wrote:



Well said! And the truth about the Pres.... Still don't know what he did to win the Nobel prize.

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He recieved his Nobel for global politics and in particular for his arms contril negotiations in relation to nuclear disarmament.

[goldenjet16]

🙂 really.... I was being sarcastic I know what he won it for. Global politics? seems we're right back to where we started because of him.

Please don t tell me about our pres who is from the same crooked city I'm from.