It. Is. Possible. To. Dislike. The. Burqa. Strongly. And. Still. Think. It. Was. Wrong. For. A. Former. Foreign. Secretary. To. Sneer. At. Women. Who. Wear. Them.
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If the extent of our humanity is defined by externals it follows that a person with locked-in syndrome after a stroke is less than human. That a woman in a revealing dress is a piece of sex-meat. That if I can’t understand your language, you’re actually uttering animal gibberish.
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In your narrow mind projecting your thinking on me you don't see me you then you dehumanize me. Ask me speak to me speak to each woman individually don't judge me as a group. We have free will.
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This is it, isn’t it? An excellent example of projective identification, which is a mechanism of the more primitive parts of the psyche. Note the comment that it may be accompanied by ‘evocative behaviour’. http://www.melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/projective-identification …
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Yes indeed thank you for sharing. Not many people understand that we see each other through our limited perception of what we think the other is rather than getting to know the other person first. An open mind enables us to see each other for real...
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How about you all don't talk about something you have no experience with. As a Muslim woman I find it offensive that you feel the need to "protect" me. Whether I wear a hijab or not is completely my choice. If as I get older I feel the need to wear a niqab is also my choice.
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Not you, but your sisters in Iran and other Muslim countries do need protection. Tomorrow, women being stoned for adultery also need to have a choice to be stoned because it's religious? You will be offended if you are refused that right?
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The right to freedom of choice is for everyone. I have no experience with the laws of those countries so I cannot comment with complete authority. And again, who made those laws; men. There is disagreement among modern Islamic thinkers as to the applicability of stoning for +
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adultery. While religious texts often give examples both with and without stoning, the Quran does not prescribe stoning as a punishment for any crime, mentioning only lashing as punishment for adultery.This is what the Qur'an says about adultery. Meanwhile: The scribes and the +
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Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, 4 they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. This is what the Bible says; +
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So it's not just Islamic.
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I meet many aggressive upholders of 'Christian values' who haven't been in the same room as a bible since childhood, so this is a helpful reminder.
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she said, dehumanisingly
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Please read Maajid Nawaz tweets on this and stop making total fools of yourselves.
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Result! Man tweets woman to tell her to stop being an idiot, and to read what another man says about women’s issues. The 1970s are officially back!
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I'll listen to maajid rather a middle class white woman all day longpic.twitter.com/MSWHBwMbZl
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Blessed be the fruit.
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Wow, you can read...
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May the lord open. (I can memorise, too).
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So no comment on Maajids view?
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