22-09-2014 08:59 AM - edited 22-09-2014 09:00 AM
09-10-2014 09:23 AM - edited 09-10-2014 09:28 AM
on 09-10-2014 09:36 AM
@debra9275 wrote:
Reasons against
Maybe they could conceal weapons.
maybe they are really men in disguise
They wear them for religious reasons
Men make them wear them
They are confronting
Reason for
Women should be able to wear whatever they want here, it's a. Free country
Maybe those so against the wearing of Burqas should actually find someone who does wear one to ask them why they do it?
Most on here are only defending women in Australia to wear it if they choose, most on here turn their eyes away from all it entails for millions of women.
on 09-10-2014 09:46 AM
@polksaladallie wrote:
@tezza2844 wrote:
village_ person answered ? "So are we to assume that hoodies are a religious/cultural thing? Are they worn by anabaptists or some other cult" I really can't understand why you would even consider " everyday smash and grab robbers, service stations robbers, vandals, muggers, rapists and I suppose you could throw in a few murderers" as part of a religious/cultural thing. Hoods or cowls are worn by other cult/sects/religious persons e.g monks, nuns, but when worn by the fore mentioned I would find them confronting just as some people say they would be confronted by the burqa and niqab.Watch out for these people
Must admit I've never seen any outfits like that walking around in Sydney. They'd fit right in tho lol.
on 09-10-2014 09:51 AM
Very colourful. But.....are they women or men? That is the question.
on 09-10-2014 09:59 AM
why do yo have to watch out for them?
do they dress like that everyday or just
during special ceremonies?
http://casitacolibri.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/whats-with-the-hoods/
on 09-10-2014 10:03 AM
on 09-10-2014 10:16 AM
@micasheen wrote:It's deflection and trying to equate the downtrodden who have to wear the burqa to others who they perceive to be the same as the women who are forced to wear this attire, it's insulting and offensive to women.
It's like the shameful equation that the stone age ideology of Isil is the same as Christianity. It's been said before but worth repeating that the mindless and usually vicious stupidity of the left is on avid display.
I wonder how the many women on here championing the burqa would feel if their faces were pixellated out of society, their persona reduced to persona non grata, their faces anathema and their bodies shrouded from head to toe, not a sliver of their body visible.
Having to face the wall in public to lift the veil and eat a spoonful at a time whilst their husbands and sons wear shorts and interact in public.
The "cultural cut" men are insisting females have in Australia, men taking their children overseas to be mutilated whilst the men's genitalia is left intact, the child brides as young as 9 being taken overseas and married off to adult men, all these practices are to subjugate, dehumanize and erase women from normal life.
It's not just the burqa or other garments women are forced to wear but all the other practices that are associated with it and all at the hands of men. The burqa can't be taken singularly, it can't be removed from the other practices associated with the doctrines women have to obey whilst men are free.
Most on here refuse to acknowledge any of the above, most on here are only defending women in Australia to wear it if they choose, most on here turn their eyes away from all it entails for millions of women.
Nobody is championing the burqa.
The burqa has nothing to do with FGM, nothing at all.
This whole debate has nothing to do with the rights of women, only with the demonisation of muslims, dividing the nation and gaining support for Abbott and co by creating fear within society.
09-10-2014 10:17 AM - edited 09-10-2014 10:17 AM
Yes! The topic is/was "Should the Burqa be banned in Australia?" and from what I saw/read anyone who said it should was verbally attacked and bullied but those who believe it shouldn't be banned. If you have no problem with people wearing this clothing, that's fine, but why not allow others to voice a different opinion without jumping down their throat all the time. I don't believe that it needs to be totally banned ( Yes! have given this more thought ), however, are places where I believe it should not be worn. This is my opinion and it's not going to change.
bty this post is NOT aimed at any particular poster
on 09-10-2014 10:27 AM
Most FGM in Australia is carried out in sections of the population who look like this.
They don't wear burqas.
09-10-2014 11:08 AM - edited 09-10-2014 11:10 AM
imo Telling someone what they should or should not do, is bullying, so end of story for me