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To: the OlLine Rebel
Then your comment about clubs was specious.

My comment about clubs was exactly what I intended it to be: an illustration of the other end of the license spectrum. Enforced modesty by violence. I'll take skin-bearing licentiousness over Taliban oppression any day.

28 posted on 08/26/2011 4:15:55 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: IronJack; Morgana
I'll take skin-bearing licentiousness over Taliban oppression any day.

What do you gain by posing this false dichotomy? We all know it's false, and that even in the Islamic world, most of the people of all periods have worn more clothes than are commonly covering the women in my Walmart or the girls in the local middle school, and less than those prescribed by today's extreme Islamists.

If you are expressing a preference for tiny shorts and cut-off tank tops over all other options - slacks and a crew-neck t-shirt, for example - why do you not do so openly, rather than proposing and then attacking rules for which nobody on the thread or in the article has expressed support?

We do understand that a great many males like to look at women dressed in few or no clothes, and that they often spend money, sometimes large amounts, to enjoy this activity.

29 posted on 08/26/2011 4:33:01 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy." R. Mitchell)
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To: IronJack

Your comment implying that Catholic doctrine (e.g.) on dress automatically leads to clubbing people for violation is specious.

Moslems are different from Catholics. I don’t pretend they all end up the same.


30 posted on 08/26/2011 4:50:54 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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