From Two Sides Point of View...

[moriah]

[baldguy]

1. And which is more likely to be stopped & "questioned" by police?

[libinnyandia]

2. The woman wearing the bikini is not forced to wear it. The woman in the burqa may be.

[moriah]

3. Yep, but why is she wearing it?

To gain the attention and/or approval of others.... at least in most cases.

Cuz no offense, but anyone who wears a string bikini for comfort is either in 100+ degree weather and is trying to avoid breaking the obscenity laws cuz it'd be more comfortable to be nekkid, or has a thing for wedgies.

Edit to add: and I, at least, need a more supportive bra to be comfortable.

[baldguy]

4. Many more women who wear burqas and hijabs choose to do so.

Your statement presupposes every man in the Muslim world doesn't love their sisters, wives & daughters.

[libinnyandia]

5. No It has more to do with culture. Otherwise, how come they are not required everywhere?

[baldguy]

6. So you think Muslim men don't love Muslim women?

Isn't that just a tiny little bit arrogant, doncha think?

And people wonder why they hate us.

[libinnyandia]

7. I don't think most Muslims hate us. Muslim men and women love each other. Muslims are not all

the same. Not all Muslim women wear the same clothes. Not all Muslim women are banned from driving cars. Muslims are diverse, just as Christians and other religions are.

[baldguy]

8. And some Muslim women choose to wear burqas and hijabs; some don't.

It's arrogant & ignorant to assume they''re being oppressed based upon nothing but their clothing.

[libinnyandia]

9. Some choose to wear burqas, some have no choice. It depends on their culture. And it is more

than clothing.

[baldguy]

10. I believe that's a very rare occurance. Especially in the US.

When you see a news story about it the reason it is NEWS is because it is so rare. It wouldn't be news otherwise. There are more women who fight to maintain their rights to wear what they please - including burqas and hijabs, and the headscarves of Mennonites & the Amish, and the veils of conservative Catholics and Jews, and a million other bits of religiously prescribed clothing that people of both sexes wear as a symbol of their faith and culture - than those who are forced to wear something they don't wish to.

And you keep repeating your belief that it's cultural, as if it is then it doesn't matter. Try telling a Native American that their culture doesn't matter.

And do you think Islam is a monolithic entity with one culture, one sets of interpretations & one way of doing things for every one of the billion+ people that follow it? Literally nothing could be further from reality. There are in fact people from dozens of different sects, from dozens of different cultures from dozens of different countries that follow Islam - including modern, natural-born American women who wear the burqa or the hijab by their own choice with no manner of coercion .