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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Veils Suck


Salman Rushdie gave his opinion in the niqab debate that was sparked by Jack straw.

He said: "Straw was expressing an important opinion which is that veils suck, which they do. I think that the veil is a way of taking power away from women."

Rushdie also said: "I think the battle against the veil has been a long and continuing battle against the limitation of women, so in that sense I am completely on Straw's side."

And I am completely on Salman's side.

posted by zabinzo at 10/11/2006 10:53:00 AM

6 Comments:

  • "Veils Suck": Such a strong argument!!

    By Blogger MechanicalCrowds, At 3:34 AM, October 12, 2006  

  • I kind of agree that the veil "sucks" but i disagree with this very personal view being imposed on those who do not think it "sucks".

    By Blogger Montage, At 6:45 AM, October 12, 2006  

  • There is something about seeing a woman shrouded in black from head to foot and peering through a slit which shrieks female oppression to me.

    By Blogger zabinzo, At 12:23 PM, October 12, 2006  

  • Egypeter,

    Look i too hate the hijab and niqab etc but just like i'm not happy about the veil being imposed on women i feel just as strongly when people try to impose the view that it shouldn't be worn.
    I'm not exactly happy with the whole hijab trend that seems to have swept egypt but you know what? Who cares what i think! I can't expect a whole country to conform to my way of thinking or to go back to the way it was in the 50s, as appealing as that would be.

    It's very strange how you're claiming to be against this and that being imposed on women yet you're quite happy about your views on the veil to be imposed on them instead. So effectively, one imposed opinion should be swapped by yet another imposed opinion, yours that is.
    BTW, i would be just as irritated if someone was to try and impose their views on the mini for instance.
    What the hell happened to wear what you want?

    By Blogger Montage, At 9:40 PM, October 12, 2006  

  • Except that Straw objected on Salman's words and said that he [Straw] didn't use this word [suck] to describe the veil.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, At 2:44 AM, October 13, 2006  

  • I think the whole problem here is materializing the words into physical mandates as i belive the whole deal aims at restraining women's desire for vanity and male attraction, which is good as long as she can still see and hearand use her senses and not look like a grim reaper, however, i say this is totally relevant, you will not feel attracted to plain lady with no make up on and well groomed hair and regular clothes if she's surrounded by make-up filled faces wearing micro skirts, on the other hand you maybe attracted to the same plain woman if she were standing in the middle of nikab wearing women, so basically i think everyone knows what should be done, but they choose to go with the flow or just rest their minds (after all how many minutes of thinking can one brain handle)

    By Blogger أكرم بكزاده, At 10:10 PM, February 01, 2007  

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