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Thread #129162   Message #2899076
Posted By: GUEST
03-May-10 - 07:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Muslim veil ban in Belgium
Subject: RE: BS: Muslim veil ban in Belgium
"If my husband forced me to wear nothing but stockings and suspenders in public because it pleases men I could take a case against him. The same applies to Muslim women. This is 2010, not 3AD. Women in Britain are protected by British law, not the law of the land of their parnter."

Regretably it's fine in theory but a lot harder to do in practice, the assorted accounts of Muslim women in the UK who "rebelled" against the family (including some of the court reports of "honour" killings) show that it's not that simple when you are trapped within the culture/community/family.

Steve