The idea that the Burqa is a garment of choice is easily disputed in many parts of the world. In several countries, the Mutawwa (literally being religous police) have the authority to detain persons for violation of strict standards of proper dress and behavior. They sometimes exceeded their prescribed limits and have been known to harass, assault, batter, arrest, and detain citizens and foreigners alleged to have violated dress and behavior standards. Mutawwa practices and incidents of abuse varied widely in different regions. Some governments have not criticized publicly abuses by Mutawwa and religious vigilantes.
Mutawwa enforcement of strict standards of social behavior included the closing of commercial establishments during the five daily prayer observances, insisting upon compliance with strict norms of public dress, and dispersing gatherings of women in public places. Mutawwa frequently reproached women for failure to observe strict dress codes, and arrested men and women found together who were not married or closely related.
The subjugation of women in countries like Afghanastin, Pakistan, Iran, Algeria, Sudan, and Yemen, seems to fulfill a dual purpose. First, it reinforces the control of existing elites by imposing uniform codes of behavior. But just as importantly, it bestows false legitimacy on inept authoritarian rulers by demonstrating their active rejection of Western values. At times, women who do not adhere to strict dress codes or codes of conduct, are gang raped.
Perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of how extreme dress codes are enforced, involves the death of several school girls who were forced back in to a school building that was on fire because they did not have their headdresses on. Click here
Its a choice???
http://www.mediafetcher.com/v/25077
http://www.rawa.org/women9.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8TOsrcHgv0
Arrested, imprisoned, beaten, and repeatedly raped for not wearing proper headdress
women are disgusting ugly people, they should be locked up and not able to speak
from a girl forced to write this statement.
(p.s. help me!! .. north watford fuller road)
you *****, men should be locked up, they are thick and a waste of space, all they do is eat and sleep, they need to die right now. women will rule the world one day… then they will be sorry. when a certain woman becomes the president of the whole wide world, it will be hell for all except for herself, and a few close allies
from a boy forced to write this statement
(p.s. help me!!… bradford)