Students at an Islamic university in India are demanding that their female teachers wear the all-covering burqa—the sack with the wire mesh for the eyes. The teacher, who is also Muslim, refuses to wear one.
Sirin Middya, who described herself as a devout Muslim, said she was appointed in March but has not been allowed to teach her classes since she refused to wear the garment, which covers the entire body and face. A mesh net covers the eyes.
“The students have threatened us and have put up banners saying those who oppose the burqa rule can go back home,” Middya said.
But here’s the scary part of the situation:
“I don’t have a problem wearing the burqa, but when I wear it, it will be of my own free will,” Middya said.
She should have a problem with wearing a sack, even of her own free will. Because there is no free will to be had in “choosing” to wear a garment that turns a woman into an anonymous bundle of clothing.
Women should never allow themselves to disappear into oblivion.
That the men blame women for the males lack of control violates God’s gift of free will.
What are the TB/illness rates in areas that require the burqa?
Not so much TB, I think, but rickets from lack of vitamin D from sunlight.
One of my profs kept maintaining that full covering was not necessary, since what the Qur’an said was that women must “cover their ornaments.” She wore ankle length skirts, a blouse and short coat buttoned up to the neck, and the hair scarf covering the hair completely (the long ends of which she was always tossing back over her shoulders). I had to point out eventually that in a Muslim country with Sharia operating it would not be her opinion on the meaning of the Quranic text that mattered, but that of the men and especially the Ulema. I’m sure that the Ulema would object not only to her keeping her face uncovered, but the nail polish on her toenails too. How degenerate, to let her toes be not only painted but also seen!
In a film she showed one class there were several women (Algerians) discussing covering up. One, at least, maintained that she did so because she feared rape otherwise. Mark Steyn, in “America Alone”, mentions women friends he knows in London and Amsterdam who wear Islamic dress, although not Muslims. They told him that they got verbal attacks and harassment if they went out in normal Western clothing, but when wearing Islamic clothing they were left in peace or even spoken to respectfully. In an environment where the police are unwilling to enforce the law against Muslim violence, conforming to Islamic dress codes becomes a matter of self-defense for women. And in dear old Blighty, of course, private citizens are prohibited from arming themselves for defense or even defending themselves against attack. It may end up that Texas, Alaska, Utah, and South Dakota, where women can arm themselves, will be the last places holding out against the rising tide of Islamic coercion of women into wearing burkhas, the last bastions of women’s liberation.