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.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Many of us in Philadelphia have become more than a little suspicious of people in full cover since the shooting incident.

EDIT: "suspicious" is the wrong word, I think. "Wary" is more like it.

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Face-veils are no-nos in the US. Especially in banks.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's an intense debate going on in Europe. France is moving to ban the veil, a spokesman for our government has said a ban would be "unBritish".

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

We see them on the street occasionally. There's a pretty strict community on Germantown Avenue around Manheim St (where my father was born) and a shopthat sells those thingies that cover the entire face, with a sort of net-work opening over some pretty small eye slits. Like the one in this picture only in black:

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I feel there has to be a story behind this picture.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I ganked it from an article that talks about Sarkozy's attitude to the burqa. You could probably find it by doing a Google image search on burqa -- it came up in the first page of search results.