November 5th, 2008 at 10:57pm
Buddy Holly, I have to disagree with you.
Modesty is not about totally covering your body. Modesty, in the dress sense, is using discretion to ensure you don't make a fool of yourself and come off as promiscuous. (In other words, modesty is not dressing like a slut.)
[i]I[/i] am modest and I'm not a Muslim. And though you didn't imply anything like, "Non-Muslims are immoral", I just thought I would go ahead and dispute the notion that you have to be of a certain religion to be conservative.
You say that it's a common misconception for people to think Muslim women and men are not equal but it's not really. Not to me at least.
Is it [i]equal[/i] for Muslim women to have to be escorted to go grocery shopping?
Granted, life in the Middle East is different from here in America.
However, that being said, I recall a case in which a Muslim women was separated from her shopping partner and raped.
Is it [i]fair[/i] that [i]she[/i] was punished? that her tormentors were given hardly anything more than a slap on the wrist?
To me, that is not equality.
"I'm going to kill my biology teacher."
*shifty eyes and sigh*. Yup.