Hijab Hubub
This whole veil/no veil debate is confusing.
The liberal part of me thinks that people should be able to wear what they want. The headlines reading reactionary part of me thinks that wearing a mask when dealing with primary school kids is a bit wrong.
Here’s the thing no-one is saying. Covering your face with a cloth with eye holes is stupid.
Here is a list of other people who wear bits of cloth with holes cut in them
- Klu Klux Klan members.
- Children pretending to be ghosts.
- Teenagers enduring fraternity initiation rituals
- Sheet hole testers.
Apart from the essential work performed by highly skilled workers in the cloth aperture industry, the other reasons are stupid.
Please don’t think for a second that I have any racial issues going on here - I just think that the human race should now have grown up enough to stop believing in spooky ghost stories and ridiculous superstitions based on four thousand year old desert religions.
Written by exmonkey on October 22nd, 2006 with
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#1. October 22nd, 2006, at 3:43 PM.
More people wearing bits of cloth with holes in:
* Bank robbers
* Mountaineers
* Hassidic cunnilinguists
Even so, I don’t think it’s any more stupid than wearing giant Goth platform boots of having twenty five earrings or wearing trousers so low-cut that everyone can see your pants.