Community | August 12, 2009 | 3 comments

Writer Wears Burka For One Week: "It Felt Like A Prison"

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/11/writer-wears-burka-for-on_n_256771.html

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Squatting next to me is my burka. It looks so innocuous: just a few yards of black fabric. But, my goodness, how oppressive it is, how suffocating, how transforming.

Moved by the plight of Lubna Hussein, a Sudanese woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public, I decided to spend a week enveloped in what she should have been wearing.
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    • The comments by some on the daily mail made me so mad... I hate it when Westerners think they have the right to determine what is good and what is not for women who live in the East. Until they live the lives of Eastern women, they have ZERO right to tell Eastern women what to do and how to gain equality in their lives.

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      I also note that one of the women who spoke out FOR her personal choice to wear a burkha after experiencing wearing miniskirts and the like had an incredibly low rating for her comment.

      That's pretty telling and disgusting, as people in the west don't even trust Eastern women's perspectives on THEIR OWN ISSUES.

    • 2 years ago
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