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Paper bags and Headscarves!

Topic started by zeemax on Feb 8, 2008 7:53:33 pm

Turkey set to relax headscarf ban

Women, including one with a paper bag
on her head, protest the head scarf ban
at Turkish universities.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's government is expected to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities on Saturday in a significant victory against the secular establishment.

Women, including one with a paper bag on her head, protest the head scarf ban at Turkish universities.

In predominantly Muslim Turkey, which seeks European Union membership, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party has channeled the frustration of devout masses who feel excluded from the establishment into political action.

"We will end the sufferings of our girls at university gates," Erdogan said Thursday in reference to pious female students who have been forced to remove their head scarves at the entrance to campuses. Some have attended classes wearing wigs.

The Parliament will hold brief debates and vote on two crucial amendments to the secular constitution to allow female students to wear head scarves on campus.

If they want to wear it, why not let them ... looks better than a paper bag anyway

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Post by zeemax on Feb 8, 2008 8:19:46 pm
Also Zeena, headscarves have nothing to do with piety. Are you surprised with this statement? Actually they only have something to do with identity and a preference for a certain type of outer persona. flag objectionable content

Post by zeemax on Feb 8, 2008 8:16:21 pm
No no Zeena, they're removing the ban on it ... not making it compulsory! That's only fair for girls who want to wear it but can't right now! flag objectionable content

Post by Zeena on Feb 8, 2008 8:12:12 pm
zeemax sahib I beg to differ on this scarf issue thingie. In my fair opinion I believe this head scarf should be a woman's own choice, it shouldn't be implicated by any other person or institution. If a woman wishes to wear shead scarf, she should wear it with all integrity of her self. If any woman out there doesn't wish to wear it, then she shouldn't wear it again with all integrity of her heart. My family females never wear head scarves in Pakistan, well does that make them less of a Muslim and less of a poius? Absolutely NOT. I don't wear head scarf, and that doesn't mean I am not pious or I am a sinner. I believe this kind of mind set needs to be reformed, and trust me that was the main problem I didn't like BB b/c she her self didn't wish to wear haead scarf, but b/c of the fear of some Mullahs, she wore it...My problem is NOT with head scarf, my problem is the mentality behind that. If your wife and your family females wish to wear head scarves, I will never undermine them or look down on them, that's their perfect right to choose whatever they're comfortable with. But, if I don't wish to wear head scarf, then they don't have any business to do with my choice. And I believe if we start respecting eachother's choices that way, this world would be much better place to live, unlike what we're suffering currently. And please, Islam has got nothing to do with this head scarf thing....I read Quran in detail almost every day...Thanks for showing these pictures of some good women, I won't call them pious, b/c I don't wish to judge others whom I don't know at all. flag objectionable content

Post by zeemax on Feb 8, 2008 7:55:02 pm
It does frame the face rather nicely ... or don't you think flag objectionable content

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