There is an interesting story out of Chad where the country has outlawed the wearing of Islamic veils over the face of women. The country took the step after a suicide bombing by the Muslim group Boko Haram used a burka-wearing man. France has been criticized for outlawing full veils or burkas so the move by a country with a majority of Muslims is surprising.
Police announced that they will arrest anyone wearing an Islamic veil that fully covers the face.
The bombing on Saturday killed 15 people and wounded 80 in the capital of N’Djamena, when a man disguised as a woman blew himself up. The man targeted the main market entrance for his massacre. Many of us around the world continue to be mystified that such men believe that they will be rewarded for such acts, including the use of a religious outfit to disguise their crime or, as in other recent cases, the targeting of people praying at mosques and churches.
Boko Haram has now reportedly killed more than 15,000 people and left another 1.5 million homeless.
On a side note, I REALLY want to go drinking with Squeeky…
as for Chad, GOOD on them.. People in their country, need to feel safe, and the MORE and more these Muslim countries are attacked, the
more and more into the Western Culture they will move.
I am sad to see these things going on… Hopefully, more and MORE Muslims will
wake up and this will start to be the norm….
I was having coffee with the most stunningly BEAUTIFUL woman I have ever seen a few weeks back.
She was from Iran and around 55, and was still turning heads… I kept thinking to myself, Damn, Western Women should feel thankful that many of those women wear some sort of covering… They are some of the most BEAUTIFUL women in the world, talk about competition.
Has anyone here, besides me, had a single conversation with a woman dressed in a Burka?
MikeA, LOL! I know you have a keen sense of humor, but I didn’t know you had dark humor in that kind mind. However, I know we ALL have a dark side. I think humor is the best way to vent it.
Sooo, just who is this Chad, and what gives him the right to tell women what they can wear??? Oh, seriously, this deserves an Irish Poem!
A Cover Charge???
An Irish Poem by Squeeky Fromm
There once was a country named Chad,
Which had this Sharia Law fad.
No woman could twerka,
Unless in a burka,
Sooo, the lap dances there were quite sad!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Will those who violate the new law become known as hanging Chads?
Now, safety is often a pretext to take away some of our Constitutional rights. But, that’s not the case here. Muslims have abused their freedoms and they therefore are losing one.
Yelling “fire” in a crowded building is indeed allowable and heroic when there’s a fire.
Typical stupid assessment. Subjugation and religion are not the overriding issue. SAFETY is the issue. And, unfortunately, these idiots who can’t make a basic and easy analysis are allowed to vote, drive cars, and have children.
BTW, I am glad that Chad did this.
When Catholic nuns changed to the new costume, there was some resistance. Many liked the old costume, with the wimple.
Interesting how burkas was such a Muslim custom and related to the religion and now all of a sudden it’s instantly gone.
Let the women of Chad feel liberated…and the gawking men have their eyes plucked out.
Now, where is Po to decry, in great long tedious repetitive posts, the racism and anti muslim activities of Chad for banning the burka???? Terrible people those Chads (Chadites? Chadians? what would be the term?)
Or is it only Americans, white people, Europeans who can be chastised for the sensible safety precautions of wanting to know who they are talking to and dealing with?
🙂
I have traveled to a lot of foreign places. The burka or veil over the face is a very good thing. America should allow it. This is especially necessary in the early morning when one is not quite ready for an ugly event. After watching all the stuff on tv about Greeks protesting outside the ATMs I think the Greeks should adopt some face veils. They are an ugly whining sniveling bunch and can make one puke.
The rule should be: if a dog pukes in the woman’s presence then enforce the veil policy and make em wear it.
Of course, the advantage to their husbands is they will never have to answer the question, “Do I look fat in this?”
Good for France and Chad. Women attired in head to toe cloth over their regular clothing is nothing more than subjugation. It has no place in modern society.
Nick
This is not a safety issue. There is never, never, never a moment when yelling fire in a crowded theatre is freedom of speech. There are, however, times and places where a woman or whatever should be able to wear a sheet covering the entire body. The overriding power is not the ‘best Constitution ever written’ or the ‘world’s oldest democracy’ but simple common sense of the moment and place. On an average day in another place it would be another thing. My contribution to the best way to deal with stuff through interpretation of ideals and sacred words is common sense or what is in the best interests of the common denominator at this time. This dictates for me that burkas should not be allowed in public. If a fanatic blew his or herself up in some foreign country dressed in a sheet, hiding explosives, then I don’t want any people wandering around in my vicinity dressed in sheets, regardless of the mumbo jumbo to which they adhere. Wearing them at home and allowing macho perverts to subjugate women is another issue. Wandering around under sheets is a security threat; not on airplanes, busses, trains, nowhere in public.
Burqas are a security issue. Countries have a right to say no, not here. There are laws in the US that outlaw masks for the same reason. Seeing a person’s face is important.
As to its use in the Chad suicide bombing, that wasn’t the first time the Burqua was used in that manner and it won’t be the last.
Killer transvestites?
If one was born and raised in the world’s oldest democracy, w/ the best constitution ever written, this is an easy one if it were here. It’s a safety issue, like yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre. For those conflicted by socialistic and personal controlling issue, our Constitution will always confound them.
The sanctity of the sacred words depends on how they are applied. In the end it is the people through their institutions that design the words and put them into effect. That this changes due to the moment and circumstance is exactly how freedom works. Sometimes freedom of speech is not freedom of speech.
On top of all that when a religion requires people to go around covered from head to toe then perhaps it’s not a religion.