Category Archives: Burkas

Why dress like a sausage?

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To prevent body heat loss, shaking, swaying and an upset in the body’s equilibrium. It only works for women, though.

From here:

Veil is a legitimate right of a woman to protect her modesty as per Qur’anic and Hadith injections. Apart from this, there are a number of health and moral benefits that wearing the veil can provide. Many behavioral science studies that suggest that the veil is the best attire for women.

Protecting the head is very important from a health perspective. Results of medical tests show that 40-60 percent of body heat is lost through the head, so persons wearing head coverings during cold months are protected about fifty-percent more than those who do not.  Wind is said to cause sudden changes within the body and shaking, swaying and other movements that potentially upset the body’s equilibrium; thus, creating bad health.

Archbishop Rowan Williams and the human sausage

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Rowan Williams thinks men should be allowed to force their wives to dress like a bratwurst; from here:

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has deplored attempts by governments in Europe to prohibit Muslim women from publicly wearing the burqa, a garment that covers the entire body.

“Governments should have better things to do than ban the burqa,” Williams, the leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, told an interfaith meeting organized by the National Council of Churches in India at its headquarters in Nagpur, during a visit to India.

Archbishops should have better things to do than tell governments they have better things to do.

Burka Rage

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From here:

A retired teacher is facing three years in prison for ripping off a Muslim’s face veil in the world’s first known case of ‘burka rage’.

The 63-year-old woman, so far only referred to by her first name Marlene, appeared before the Paris Correctional Court to defend her attack on Shaika, 26, who originally comes from the United Arab Emirates….

Marlene, who is accused of aggravated violence, is said to have ‘lost control’ when she saw Shaika choosing furniture in a department store.

‘I knew I would crack one day,’ said Marlene. ‘This whole saga of the burka was really getting to me.’

Speaking in English to her victim, Marlene, who has taught in Morocco and Saudi Arabia, said: ‘I told her to take off the veil she had on her face. I grabbed and pulled it.

‘To me wearing a full veil is an attack on being a woman. As a woman, I felt attacked.’

A few minutes later Marlene is said to have started hitting Shaika, who refused to take her veil off.

‘I went over to her and tore her veil,’ said Marlene in a police report. ‘We came to blows. I was very upset.’

After allegedly slapping Shaika, Marlene bit her hand before successfully removing the veil, shouting: ‘Now I can see your face.’

Security guards had to separate the women, with one describing the fight as being motivated by ‘pure burka rage’.

Wearing a burka in public in France is now illegal – it wasn’t when Marlene went burka bonkers – but a pre-emptive citizen’s arrest defence isn’t likely to fly. I wonder if she would be facing three years in prison if she’d ripped a ku klux klan hood off its hapless wearer?