It's no big deal, until it is

Submitted by Cat (United States), Jun 25, 2008 at 14:14

Nothing's stopping you from going to the store without changing your clothes and putting on makeup. You won't be harassed, beaten, mutilated, raped, or arrested if you don't.

Over and over and over again, it's been demonstrated that hijab starts out as a "choice" . . . and then mutates into an obligation. For everyone. Or else. It is the first sign of Islamization, to demand that women of any faith submit in chastened obedience to the rules and demands created by a man who punched and molested his prepubescent child-wife, repeatedly raped women prisoners after murdering their families, called women inferior in intelligence, restricted their rights in public, condemned most of them to hell for disobedience, put them in sacks, equated them to dirt (a "tilth"), and encouraged their sacred beatings at the hands of their owner-husbands.

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