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oldsoftie

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11. I actually saw that justification in a recent article about women not wearing Hijabs

Reply to knightmaar (Reply #9)

Thu Sep 19, 2019, 08:11 AM

Sep 2019

It was about relaxing the rules in Saudi Arabia, I think. Two men (of course) continually commented that the hijabs were for the protection of the women. They COULD have been fake people, but they had a long FB presence & I've seen others make similar idiotic statements on live TV before.

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It's a complicated chain of events, actually. knightmaar Sep 2019 #9

I actually saw that justification in a recent article about women not wearing Hijabs oldsoftie Sep 2019 #11

Neither did that asshole malaise Sep 2019 #10

Excellent. This ruling and the significant penalty are a strong slap Hortensis Sep 2019 #8