Veiled Muslim woman threatens suit against Chevron for gas denial

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68. Nope. No way do I think that. And I've already said I lived in a community FULL of women in burqas

for 25 years.

I've also been associated with Wheaton's food pantry and local community resource center as an ESL tutor and more. I'll go further and state that I've been involved in rape crisis counseling and the local women's shelters for more than 30 years, anywhere I've lived. I've worked part time as a grant writer for DECADES so I've had to study this phenomenon in depth but honestly, most of my involvement with the women's shelters has been in Wheaton with immigrant populations.

I think the women have been acculturated to accept their secondary status and adopt the shroud willingly in their home countries. I have no idea if any of them were initially beaten into submission about wearing it. When they move to the US, they don't understand OUR culture and 1. how our culture negatively views face covering and 2. how their garment prohibits them from participating fully in our society trying to find jobs etc. 3. How face covering is prohibited in many areas as a security risk.

If you were brainwashed from a young age that having your genitals cut off was dictated by Gawd in order to gain heaven, you'd probably acquiesce to the torment. That doesn't make it right. That doesn't mean we in the West have to accept that as religious and instead protest against it as a barbaric cultural relic. It's the same with shrouding women so they are disappeared.