Man punches nurse for removing wife's burqa during c-section

[Ms. Toad]

189. No it wasn't you -

it was another member of DU, who used that phrase repeatedly. I find that phrase directed at Islamic women who happen not to have made the politically acceptable choice, and the sexist implications that anything they say that doesn't conform to our version of what they should be choosing must not be their free choice incredibly offensive. But those comments were left standing by numerous juries, and the DU member who I know made them is still with us. I can't imagine that reference being tolerated against women in general, or against any other minority. That is why I am so firm on this issue.

I agree that there are far too many Islamic women who are trapped (or worse) by a variety of entities (husbands, family members, governments) in religious practices they have not chosen for themselves - and, as I believe I noted earlier - all indications are that that applies to this woman. She deserves our support - but so do the women who make choices which we may not find as politically acceptable.

In other circumstances, when it is not connected to the anti-Islamic baggage I find disturbing here, I am not opposed to discussing the deliberate cultural annihilation of native culture carried out by those who invaded their countries in almost every instance.