[Unam Sanctam]

Why don't you all go streak naked through Mecca? That'll show 'em, ignorant traditional religious believers who are not sophistocated enough to scoff at modesty and decency. Apparently ditching the burqa means that one has to immediately go to the thong.

[Syncro]

*LOL*

[FITZ]

Should we forbid any woman from a Muslim country ---- no matter how long ago she left that country or what her current religion might be or not be --- from entering any beauty pageants? I wonder how that would go --- all Arab, Persian, Egyptian ---- all women who might have any Middle Eastern ancestry ---- are now banned from participation --- no matter how much they as individuals wish to join in.

[Thumper1960]

My, my, my...testy, aren't we?

Puritans felt the need to execute alleged "witches". Radical Islam feels the need to murder those not Muslim....or, their brand of Islam. It's rather safe to stay bundled up in late civilization standards of 'modesty'. Insecurity with ones own sexuality and physical appearance; a desire to adhere to rigid standards of apparent morality as defined by religious(?) authority; the subconscious affectation for submission to a controlling body of clerics and morals police. Which is it?

Islam may well be the foretold "Anti-Christ", in the form of not a man, but of a movement. From it's inception, Islam has been a force that demands total submission of all that humans do, think, feel, believe and aspire to. Defense of Islam, in any way, is foreign to liberty and civilization. Islam has proven to be evil incarnate. From its founder through to its present form. Just as Jim Jones twisted the word of God to suit his purposes, Islam twists God to suit its purposes. Far from just overthrowing the Taliban, the goal should have been to stamp out the pseudo-"religion" of Islam. As long as Islam exists, no Jew or Gentile can breathe safe. For Islam's stated goal is to destroy all other beliefs and force the world to follow one mans 'vision' of God. The cult of Muhammed is what threatens us all.

[SarahW]

It's "sophisticated".

I've never streaked anything but my hair. And there was nothing immodest, in context of a beauty pageant, about a pretty girl in a boy-cut bathing suit.

We should scoff and scorn any culture that thinks girls should cover up "or else" (be raped, killed by brother, etc)...and never accept it and make sure it gets stamped out. Crushed. Ended.