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Lifting the Veil Using a 'Bluetooth Burqa'
Spiegel Online ^ | February 25, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 03/04/2008 8:37:34 PM PST by forkinsocket

A burqa may not be the flirtiest garment ever invented for women. The highly modest head-to-toe robe even shrouds the eyes, so for centuries it's been difficult for women wearing them to send suggestive signals to men.

But now a German designer has debuted a digitally-enabled burqa that can broadcast a photo of the wearer to nearby mobile phones. Markus Kison calls it the "CharmingBurka," and says it isn't forbidden by Islamic law.

A model demonstrated a prototype of Kison's garment at the Seamless 2008 design and fashion show in Boston, a high-tech fashion event run with support from the Masschusetts Institute of Technology.

Kison says the burqa has a "digital layer" that incorporates a Bluetooth antenna, which lets women "decide for themselves where they want to position themselves virtually." Nearby mobile phones that also use Bluetooth will light up with any small file a woman chooses to broadcast as her identity -- a photo, a cartoon, a text file or even a sound clip.

Kison's broadcast technology started as a marketing tool; the so-called "Bluebot" system is meant to send digital advertisements to passing phones. But Kison's new design turns a burqa into a walking MySpace page.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany
KEYWORDS: bluetooth; burka; cellphones; freepun; islam; mobilephones; muslims; stuckonstupid
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To: forkinsocket

Misogynist Muhammad strikes another blow from the grave.


21 posted on 03/04/2008 9:23:45 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: forkinsocket
... it isn't forbidden by Islamic law.

That will be small consolation after some honor killer sends your head rolling down the street.

22 posted on 03/04/2008 9:24:08 PM PST by AZLiberty (President Fred -- I like the sound of it.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Sometimes being on FR can really help with the old diet.

Who on earth would want to flirt with a muslim man in the first place? I just lost my appetite.


23 posted on 03/04/2008 9:25:13 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: brityank
Just for you... ;)

ThomasRemake
24 posted on 03/04/2008 9:27:02 PM PST by LibertyRocks ("Islam - The Religion of Pieces" -- quote from LR's "Infidel & Proud" Daughter)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

That is sooooo funny.


25 posted on 03/04/2008 9:27:17 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: JCG

Can you put a pancake on his head?


26 posted on 03/04/2008 9:29:35 PM PST by BBell
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To: phrogphlyer
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You sure that’s not Lazareth?

27 posted on 03/04/2008 9:43:12 PM PST by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

Speaking of things you don’t forget, a good friend of mine and his wife worked in Saudi Arabia 30 years ago. When they entered the country, the customs / morals police used black magic marker to mark over all the lingerie ads in her fashion magazines — and those adverts weren’t very racy back then, either. What an uptight society. No wonder it has so many weird pathologies.


28 posted on 03/04/2008 9:45:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: forkinsocket

“Nearby mobile phones that also use Bluetooth will light up with any small file a woman chooses to broadcast as her identity — a photo, a cartoon, a text file or even a sound clip.”

The soon to be adopted technology of prostitutes for thier pricelist. Quicker than craigslist. lol


29 posted on 03/04/2008 10:17:03 PM PST by fishhound
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To: metmom

“Who on earth would want to flirt with a muslim man in the first place?”

Hello handsome! You smell of camel, not goat. Your eyes are black as the prophet’s heart (pbuh), and your beard as thick as mine. If you desire to beat me no more than once a week, let’s set a date.


30 posted on 03/04/2008 10:29:26 PM PST by Titan Magroyne ("Shorn, dumb and bleating is no way to go through life, son." Yeah, close enough.)
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To: All

I wonder if there is a fatwa in the works about this?


31 posted on 03/04/2008 10:47:36 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy
there will be lots of this

and this


32 posted on 03/04/2008 11:00:08 PM PST by Liberty2007 (We are busy winning hearts and minds while our islamfascist enemy is busy cutting throats and necks.)
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To: Liberty2007
I almost got it!


33 posted on 03/04/2008 11:46:15 PM PST by Liberty2007 (We are busy winning hearts and minds while our islamfascist enemy is busy cutting throats and necks.)
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To: brityank

It might The Reaper!


34 posted on 03/05/2008 3:59:12 AM PST by Peelod (I do renounce Hillary! and all her pomps and works.)
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To: forkinsocket

35 posted on 03/05/2008 4:41:34 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)
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To: brityank
to early in the morning for that,,,now quit
36 posted on 03/05/2008 4:46:13 AM PST by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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To: forkinsocket
Kind of an enhanced “gaydar.
37 posted on 03/05/2008 4:46:52 AM PST by Clay Moore ("My daddy says I'm this close to living in the yard." Ralph Wiggum)
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To: metmom; MinuteGal; forkinsocket
That's totally irrelevant. The muzzie thought police will make up some excuse to stone the first woman they catch using one.

Don't worry, the imams will quickly reinterpret their Sharia law and fix any loophole......and the flirty ladies behind the veil will NOT be grandfathered in if they're using any electronic devices.

I would think that the intent of their stupid Burka law is to make women cover up and not show off any part of their female body so they won't tempt the men (who obviously are not expected to have any self-control).

So I would think the spirit of their stupid law is being violated here, so that if discovered the penalty for the woman would be the same if she was going around uncovered.

38 posted on 03/05/2008 4:56:11 AM PST by Screaming_Gerbil (Let's Roll...)
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To: Titan Magroyne

LOL!!


39 posted on 03/05/2008 5:04:43 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Liberty2007

Actually, post 33 doesn’t look so bad after all after seeing the one before.

I keep saying that some clothes should not be made in some sizes.


40 posted on 03/05/2008 5:05:56 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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