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For Cloaked Saudi Women, Color Is the New Black
Washington Post ^
| May 28, 2007
| Faiza Saleh Ambah
Posted on 05/29/2007 7:17:41 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76
This Afghan woman's abaya is blue.
So I guess that means she isn't being "oppressed"...
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:50:33 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(How often must environmentalism have negative consequences before we stop calling them unintended?)
To: george76
The pilot must announce it ?That's what I've heard as well. In-flight alcohol service is also apparently affected by the location in airspace.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:52:49 AM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: george76
A major factor in the change was the involvement of young Saudis in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Many people began to question the official Wahhabi ideology that was believed to have partly inspired the hijackers
It's hard to believe those words were printed in the comPost.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:54:36 AM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: AnnaZ
Funny, but somewhat scary tagline...
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:55:11 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
To: george76
"God ordered women to dress modestly, to be respectable and to avoid provoking lust."All the responsibility for "avoiding provoking lust" is on women. Men are free to do as they please. When an illicit affair occurs, it is always the woman's fault.
Why aren't American feminists attacking islam? </irony>
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posted on
05/29/2007 8:01:55 AM PDT
by
wysiwyg
(What parts of "right of the people" and "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?)
To: george76
They cannot drive or work alongside men and are forced to cover up with the abaya in public. Change is coming from within for those brave enough to fight the oppressive systems. The first I heard of any resistance was in the 90s when a group of Saudi women conspicuously drove around in a car alone in protest of the prohibition.
Personally, I think if every fed-up Muslim woman would take a tip (or more than a tip) from Lorena Bobbit, this problem would end rather quickly.
To: wysiwyg
At a mall on fashionable Tahlia Street recently, a line of young men trailed three fully covered young women wearing the niqab, or face veil, with slits that exposed only their eyes. The women, who had stopped to look at cellphone accessories, wore tight black abayas, green and blue contact lenses, heavy mascara and eyeliner, and strong perfume.
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posted on
05/29/2007 8:23:06 AM PDT
by
EBH
(May God Save Our Country)
To: null and void
;^)
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posted on
05/29/2007 8:25:38 AM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: antiRepublicrat
The first I heard of any resistance was in the 90s when a group of Saudi women conspicuously drove around in a car alone in protest of the prohibition. They were probably stoned to death shortly thereafter.
To: antiRepublicrat
Møøslimb men are already circumcised...
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posted on
05/29/2007 8:28:16 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
To: 2banana
The only thing this proves is that they are frightened not to wear that crap in Saudi.
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posted on
05/29/2007 8:38:56 AM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(I'm gonna vote for Fred. John Bolton for VP.)
To: null and void
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posted on
05/29/2007 8:42:22 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: wysiwyg
If we were to lose this global war, the liberal women would be wearing burkas and they would lose their right to vote, go to school, hold a job, drive a car...
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posted on
05/29/2007 8:44:56 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: AnnaZ
The comPost editors must have been asleep :
A major factor in the change was the involvement of young Saudis in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Many people began to question the official Wahhabi ideology that was believed to have partly inspired the hijackers
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posted on
05/29/2007 8:50:02 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
ROFL!
How “disrepectful” of them, to make fun of foreign customs!
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posted on
05/29/2007 8:50:24 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: D-Chivas
Since they are PART of the “everyone is =” crowd, wherein every nation is the same and every culture (except the US, which is inferior), and hence they cannot question customs or disparage them, they have painted themselves in corners.
Since they’ve basically said Moslem culture is “good” and it’s OK to do all these things in Moslem culture (how dare we judge!), they cannot backtrack on their approval of this foreign culture.
Moreso, however, it’s probably because their hatred of the US as a non-communist republic trumps any “love” they have for women. Attacking Moslems would implicitly be approval of “US” culture.
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posted on
05/29/2007 8:55:38 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: LibreOuMort
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posted on
05/29/2007 9:06:18 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: null and void
Møøslimb men are already circumcised... Cut off a lot more.
To: george76
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posted on
05/29/2007 3:05:31 PM PDT
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free)
To: george76
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posted on
05/29/2007 3:48:58 PM PDT
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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