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The thing about living in the EU
Reader comment on item: The Burqa Wars
in response to reader comment: Double standards
Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Sep 1, 2009 at 00:56
Is that they don't have to wear those clothes outside or inside the home.
Are you certain that is God's law, or was it made up by men?
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| There's a direction to all this, and the Muslims aren't to blame. [228 words] | Michael S | Sep 10, 2016 17:40 | 225394 | ||
| 1 | Worrying about headscarves, while "skirting" around the problem [614 words] | Michael S | Jan 21, 2015 06:53 | 220550 | |
| 2 | Unislamic Burqas [130 words] | Prashant | Jan 3, 2012 23:29 | 192256 | |
| eyes [21 words] | jerome Henen | Jul 17, 2011 14:18 | 187512 | ||
| Burqas in France [183 words] | John Stauffer | Apr 12, 2011 21:58 | 184204 | ||
| 4 | the "prophet mohammed" spoke clearly against women, the burqa is just a way of enforcing domination and supression of women. ..May ..2010 [169 words] | Phil Greend | May 3, 2010 03:46 | 172027 | |
| Burqa video [41 words] | JenT | Dec 13, 2009 01:56 | 165762 | ||
| 2 | The two faces of Islam - Read the book "23 Years" by Ali Dashti to understand Islam by understanding its development [140 words] | FriendOfIslam | Dec 8, 2009 02:09 | 165486 | |
| Burqa or not to Burqa [93 words] | DaveP | Oct 1, 2009 13:48 | 162428 | ||
| To Burqa Or Not To Burqa That's A Question Of World Thought [282 words] | D.K.Milgrim-Heath | Sep 22, 2010 21:41 | 162428 | ||
| God bless that lady [9 words] | dfwhite19438 | Sep 27, 2009 02:53 | 162171 | ||
| headscarf ban in vlaanderen(dutch speaking belgium) starting from 2010 [42 words] | savingthewesternworld | Sep 16, 2009 12:41 | 161632 | ||
| Double standards [183 words] | Prashant | Aug 30, 2009 23:54 | 160848 | ||
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| 1 | Time to unveil [168 words] | Rebecca Moulds | Aug 16, 2009 14:19 | 160272 | |
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| 1 | My theory of the Burqa [208 words] | Lynn | Jul 16, 2009 07:57 | 158911 | |
| Sarkozy's Fatwa [26 words] | Vinod Gulati | Jul 13, 2009 22:37 | 158819 | ||
| legality of banning burka [244 words] | G. Vishvas | Jul 19, 2009 05:58 | 158819 | ||
| Banning anything. [163 words] | Vinod Gulati | Jul 20, 2009 12:17 | 158819 | ||
| Gulatis naivete will be very costly [354 words] | G.Vishvas | Jul 21, 2009 10:44 | 158819 | ||
| 1 | Hypocrisy just got BIGGER [252 words] | Kashayar | Sep 9, 2009 05:30 | 158819 | |
| competition about who is the bigger hypocrite [90 words] | G.Vishvas | Sep 9, 2009 21:28 | 158819 | ||
| 1 | You win the competition hands on [206 words] | Kashayar | Sep 11, 2009 06:48 | 158819 | |
| You cannot unilaterally decide who wins [271 words] | G.Vishvas | Sep 12, 2009 20:53 | 158819 | ||
| 1 | Common sense decides the winner [472 words] | Kashayar | Sep 14, 2009 07:44 | 158819 | |
| Intelligence includes common sense [884 words] | G.Vishvas | Sep 14, 2009 20:02 | 158819 | ||
| Common sense is quite uncommon [801 words] | Kashayar | Sep 18, 2009 04:05 | 158819 | ||
| discussing reasonably - how to do it [1448 words] | G.Vishvas | Sep 20, 2009 01:41 | 158819 | ||
| It's true [33 words] | Vermilion8 | Nov 5, 2009 13:32 | 158819 | ||
| 2 | What is wrong in wearing ski masks in public [19 words] | PPS | May 6, 2010 04:09 | 158819 | |
| 1 | Europe's Burqa Wars [192 words] | mo | Jul 12, 2009 06:34 | 158774 | |
| 2 | Let us take a clue from passport pictures requirements [219 words] | George P | Jul 12, 2009 00:57 | 158769 | |
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| UK's poll decision [49 words] | James Aurelius | Apr 1, 2009 00:57 | 153077 | ||
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| Respect [43 words] | NJ Castro | Nov 7, 2008 05:49 | 68303 | ||
| Jews not included? [119 words] | Hannah Y. Grau | Dec 7, 2008 16:20 | 68303 | ||
| To Krishna [364 words] | mo | Jul 12, 2009 06:17 | 68303 | ||
| Are you any better ? [80 words] | Kashayar | Sep 9, 2009 05:39 | 68303 | ||
| Interesting but... [99 words] | Ahu | Jan 27, 2010 16:48 | 68303 | ||
| 1 | Yes about Jews And Israel [193 words] | D.K. Milgrim-Heath | May 17, 2010 07:30 | 68303 | |
| You are wrong.. [119 words] | amqwerty | Sep 2, 2010 13:09 | 68303 | ||
| 2 | Historically Inaccurate! [215 words] | Maize | Sep 18, 2011 04:36 | 68303 | |
| WE ARE INFERIOR TO OUR ANCESTORS IN ALL, ESPECIALLY INTELLECT. [51 words] | karl Tate | Jan 3, 2012 10:05 | 68303 | ||
| rare truth [12 words] | 2bussy | Jul 6, 2012 17:49 | 68303 | ||
| Burkahs should never be required. [5 words] | Walker | Sep 19, 2012 04:42 | 68303 | ||
| Optional [6 words] | walker | Sep 19, 2012 04:43 | 68303 | ||
| jewish women and veils [178 words] | ghaber | Feb 12, 2015 19:01 | 68303 | ||
| Danki [1 words] | Sunday | Aug 25, 2015 15:56 | 68303 | ||
| HEAD COVERING AND PROSTITUTION [11 words] | ELIZABETH | Aug 31, 2016 05:50 | 68303 | ||
| Now we don't have time to unpack all of this, but: [15 words] | Nise | Jul 1, 2019 18:55 | 68303 | ||
| Not really ... [113 words] | Rk403 | Sep 12, 2019 09:38 | 68303 | ||
| good historic commentary, minus the modern (inaccurate) religious comparison [268 words] | JinCan | Jul 8, 2021 00:47 | 68303 | ||
| Hijab [1 words] | Алишер | Aug 29, 2022 01:59 | 68303 | ||
| Why I am against the Burqa [214 words] | Octavio Johanson | Nov 21, 2006 05:42 | 66794 | ||
| An outrageous idea [43 words] | Aisha Gayle | Jul 21, 2009 16:02 | 66794 | ||
| Don't like it in the UK [8 words] | Straight_Talk_Luigi | Nov 13, 2009 17:58 | 66794 | ||
| This is just show that Europeans have no tolerance and oppress women [84 words] | tarikur | Nov 18, 2006 15:34 | 66521 | ||
| Praise be to the Dutch [53 words] | Octavio Johanson | Nov 18, 2006 19:29 | 66521 | ||
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| Well, now... [238 words] | munineye | Dec 18, 2008 03:34 | 66521 | ||
| Amen, Octavio! When immigrating to another country, fit in! [20 words] | Mike Conlon | Nov 23, 2015 23:27 | 66521 | ||
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| 1 | God bless the dutch [32 words] | George P | Jul 12, 2009 01:03 | 64492 | |
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| burkah the shield [52 words] | saq from uk | May 1, 2006 17:55 | 38031 | ||
| Typical [259 words] | Aaron | May 7, 2006 07:20 | 38031 | ||
| Not a typical response !! [261 words] | Khatib | May 11, 2006 15:20 | 38031 | ||
| un-moral morals [43 words] | susan | Sep 23, 2006 15:14 | 38031 | ||
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