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To: elli1

NOW that is a good idea!!! Me too....

I think I would really like to hear what Karen has to say..it should really be interesting...

Different countries, I am sure, are different in their reactions, of course...and I would like Karen to speak to the women of Afghanistan...

When we first won the war....I was aghast at the women having to wear burqas...and was so glad that they wouldn't have to anymore, after we rid the country of the Taliban, and supposedly Sha'ria Law...

but, when I saw footage of the elections last week, it looked like most of the women still wear them....I would love to know why...


8 posted on 09/29/2005 6:11:54 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mike Pence for President of the United States!)
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To: Txsleuth

Women go back to men that beat them. Why??


11 posted on 09/29/2005 6:14:04 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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but, when I saw footage of the elections last week, it looked like most of the women still wear them....I would love to know why...

Guessing--part of it is that they're used to wearing them...like I'm used to wearing shorts in the summer & jeans in the winter. If I 'have to' wear something else, as in 'dress-up', I feel goofy.

Biggest part, I think, is a sense of personal security. They feel protected and would feel vulnerable in something more revealing. It's as much or more a social custom as it is a religious one and customs are slow to change.

16 posted on 09/29/2005 6:23:54 PM PDT by elli1
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I was aghast at the women having to wear burqas...... but, when I saw footage of the elections last week, it looked like most of the women still wear them....I would love to know why...

In a society where a woman is stoned to death for allowing herself to be raped I believe I'd wear the damn thing too. I say they deserve everything they get at this point....lead a horse to water and all that.

34 posted on 09/29/2005 6:54:43 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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