10 Reasons To wear the Burkha

[poliphilo]

10 Reasons To Wear The Burkha

1.  To honour your parents.
2.  To piss your parents off
3.  To honour men
4.  To piss men off
5.  To make a political point
6.  To make a religious point
7.  Because you are a subjugated housefrau
8.  Because you are a radical feminist
9.  To disappear
10.To stand out.

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[internet-sampo.livejournal.com]

11. As a form of masochism.



12. You're suicidal

http://www.dubaiforums.com/dubai-politics-talk/burkha-freak-kart-accident-t41150.html

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

How do you get dry afterwards?

Something similar to (12) happened to the dancer Isadora Duncan. Her scarf got caught in the wheel of her boyfriend's bugatti.

[internet-sampo.livejournal.com]

and as I understand it, that's not the only bruka and go cart story.

Several of the Muslim women I know started wearing a hajab only after 9/11 and the backlash against Muslims. There's a great story in this month's Vanity Fair about an American women reporter visiting Saudi Arabia and what she had to go through. Worth a look.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think people who choose to wear the burkha are- in the present climate of opinion- actually quite brave.