Posted on 09/07/2017 6:52:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The hijab and abaya have taken centre stage on the New York runway as up-and-coming Indonesian designers kicked off an increasingly diverse fashion week, hoping to change prejudices in the west.
“We’re not oppressed and we just want to show the world that we still can be beautiful and stylish with our hijab on,” said designer Dian Pelangi, 26, who has 4.8 million followers on Instagram.
She was one of five Indonesian designers who presented collections at the show in Chelsea on the first day of fashion week.
Two of the five fell into the category “modest fashion” – in this instance designed specifically for the affluent, modern, religiously observant Muslim woman – and featured models who covered their hair in Islamic style....
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I don’t agree that it’s a separate issue...... whether the masking is because of some moose-limb belief or because of antifa thuggery, it has the same effect of preventing one from seeing his/her face. The masked one can be peaceful or violent but masking is masking is masking and that simply isn’t part of what a civil society does. Besides, there have been plenty of suicide terrorist bomb attacks where it was a guy under the garb.
I was trying to be more sensitive to a religious belief, but you are right: you don’t know if it is the person they say they are because you can’t see them. I wonder how police deal with having to ticket a person in full covering when they can’t see if they match the driver’s license (if the woman is even allowed to drive.) And it could be a man under there.
https://www.therebel.media/showyourface
David Menzies has exposed the loopholes involved with this issue in Canada many times. Here he is voting in the Canadian federal election wearing the full face garb. It was sort of meant as a joke but in so doing, he completely exposed the flaws in the system. He was also the ‘reporter’ exposing underage teenage boys buying liquor wearing the full face garb.
There is a privacy issue about this as well. If you were to go to a restaurant to have a discussion with someone, you could look around to size the crowd up around you and this would dictate perhaps what you say, how you say it, what measures you might want to take to make sure that only the person you are directly speaking to heard what you said, or if you are comfortable with the look of the crowd around you, you might speak with abandon etc. When you are in a crowd of people wearing full face covering masks, it’s similar to being in a situation where you have to assume that a series of microphones are planted all around you....not that the masked crowd is carrying hidden microphones but they are the hidden microphones. Similarly, we all are often in situations where you might choose to say something one time that you wouldn’t say another time simply due to politeness, not wanting to offend etc. Having people all around with masks totally changes that dynamic. When I’m in public, I’m in the community of people... and I want the right to see the faces of all those who are also in the public space.
A return of some modesty would not be terrible... but the hijab is not about modesty, it is about subjugation.
Interesting videos. Sadly, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone in a niqab could vote in the U.S. without showing their face. They probably wouldn’t even have to swear they were citizens or that they were the same person on the I.D. That’s how nuts our electoral system has become.
Yes, PC has totally run amok and potentially can destroy the electoral system. I give my full support to jurisdictions where they have outlawed the practice of wearing such garb in public within the practical and temporary bounds that Barbara Kay outlined in her column (motorcycle helmets, kids at Halloween) etc.
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