Is this not absolutely outrageous?
So apparently now random male airline workers are also authorized to tell women what they can and can't wear: <a href=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/braun/20070905-9999-1m5braun.html rel=nofollow>http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro…</a> . A girl was almost kicked off her flight to Tucson, AZ, for wearing a white miniskirt. Welcome to the Middle East. Aww, poor airline workers, all distracted by women's clothes because, as we know, men are just brainless sex fiends who can't control themselves with beautiful women around. This is absolutely horrifying and simply outrages me. It is plain and obvious sex-based discrimination and - I would even go so far as to say - harassment. Her skirt was NOT obscene; with her legs crossed, you couldn't see a thing. Even if her skirt was obscene, NO ONE would be able to see it while she was SITTING DOWN on the plane. Her top was more than modest. I plan to write to this woman to encourage her to file charges. Is this not completely outrageous?
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Some people have appropriate class for what to wear in public, while others unfortunately (like the girl and you), don't have any class at all. Shame on you and the girl.
2 :
Sounds like something out of the 19th Century. Men really need to control themselves and stop blaming women for their own inadequacies!
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That's these Arab countries,they do not realise that women are people and equal as human beings to men,the dumb idiots are an embarrassment to western men in the 21st century. Their religion/culture has messed their minds up it is a wonder they not afraid of air planes being anti-Islamic but then these guys twist things to suit themselves,sue the air line. To the thumbs down idiots,not everyone follows the dubious teaching of a deluded,sexually deviant,religious plagiarist whose ramblings are the cause of more wrongs than rights.
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You are surprised? -Qur'an 33:59: "Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and all Muslim women to draw cloaks and veils all over their bodies (screening themselves completely except for one or two eyes to see the way). That will be better." -Hadis number 789, volume 2, p.114: “An ***, a pig, a Jew, a Magian and a woman annuls a prayer.†-Tabari I:280: “Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid.†-United Nations Report, 2002: "The report of the Special Rapporteur concerning cultural practices in the family that are violent towards women (E/CN.4/2002/83), indicated that honour killings had been reported in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Yemen, and other Mediterranean and Persian Gulf countries, and that they had also taken place in western countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom, within migrant communities." -The 2003 Human Rights Watch Report on Pakistan cites the murder of 211 women within the first four months of the reporting period due to "honor killings" in which family members or other men in the community killed women who had broken female cultural norms. Further human rights violations included laws such as the Hudood, Qisas and Diyat ordinances some of which allow men to be pardoned for crimes against women including rape and murder. -2/6/04 asiapacific.amnestyinternational.org: Each year 2 million girls are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), mostly in Muslim countries. -Journal of Islamic Research, No. 78; Issue: (Approximately) April to June 2006; from the fatwas of Shaykh ‘Abd-al-’Aziz bin ‘Abdallah bin Muhammad Al al-Shaykh: “Women’s Suffrage Movement Is a ‘Machination’ of the Enemies of Islam.†-1/29/07 Daily Telegraph UK: 40% of Muslims, ages 16 to 24, want Sharia law; 13% admire al-Qaeda; 36% believe apostates should be executed; 75% believe that women should wear veils. -7/10/07 worldpress.org: Poll of Muslims in Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan and Indonesia indicates that 75% believe in strict application of Sharia law. -3/09 Turkey’s Ministry of Education poll: 26% of parents and students believe in honor killing. -7/09 UK’s Department for Children, Schools, and Families estimates that 5 to 8 thousand Muslim girls were forced to marry last year. -12/5/10 LA Times: A new Pew Research Center poll shows that majorities in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Nigeria would favor changing the current laws to allow stoning as a punishment for adultery, hand amputation for theft and death for those who convert from Islam to another religion.
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I agree, this sexist puritanism comes from the Christian branch of sharia law.
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