I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear.

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389. that was the post you chose to respond to

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that was the issue you raised. I mentioned the hijab because that's what the OP is about--shocking, isn't it that I should talk about the subject of the thread?!

I did not "twist your words." I responded based on what you wrote. You became angry because I said SOME Somali women in MN are politically active yet wear hijabs. You then said they carried over their oppression from the home country, and ignored the point that more veil here than did in Somalia. What evidence do you have that most Muslim women in MN veil by threat of violence? It appears to me that you are assuming oppression because you identify Muslim women, even those in MN, as a foreign other. Your experience working with battered women, as commendable as that is, may give you a skewed view of that community. The women I know are highly educated professionals. That community includes both ends of the spectrum.
Just as their are many American born battered woman: 1 in 3 women in this country are either battered or raped by their partners, so obviously that will include immigrants as well.

This entire discussion is about Islam and an obvious contempt for Muslims that many in FEMEN and on this site feel. There are many kinds of oppression women face. I think clothing is only a symptom and hardly the most serious of markers. I fail to see so many, include femen, see nudity
as an expression, indeed the only legitimate expression, of liberation.

You mentioned families. If you meant men, you should have said so. I mentioned children because I happen to find interesting the ways in women Muslim teenagers in the Twin Cites adapt veils and hijabs to their own style. I think that is the population most likely to be forced to wear something they might not choose because teenagers always want to wear what their peers do.

I find your continual anger tedious and not conducive to a productive discussion, so I'll leave you to carry on without me.