"Syria bans full-face veil on campuses" by Albert Aji, Associated Press | July 20, 2010
DAMASCUS — Syria has banned the face-covering Islamic veil from the country’s universities to prevent what it sees as a threat to its secular identity, as similar moves in Europe spark cries of discrimination against Muslims....
The most kicked-around group on the planet (those south of the equator mostly ignored by MSM).
Related: Spain Slips Out From Behind the Curtain
And Syria ducked in.
And think about this:
The TREND -- if indeed their is one -- towards "conservative Islam" MUST MEAN a COMPLETE and UTTER FAILURE of SECULARISM!!
If IT HAD WORKED then the people would not be LOOKING SOMEWHERE ELSE, would they?
The ban, which affects public and private universities, is only against the niqab, a full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman’s eyes, not headscarves, which are far more commonly worn by Syrian women.
The billowing black robe known as a niqab is not widespread in Syria, although it has become more common recently, a development that has not gone unnoticed in a country governed by a secular, authoritarian regime.
So WHAT WENT WRONG, huh?
“We have given directives to all universities to ban niqab-wearing women from registering,’’ the government official said yesterday.
So much for EDUCATION being the way out of OPPRESSION, Muslim ladies!
The niqab “contradicts university ethics,’’ he added, saying the government was seeking to protect its secular identity.
So secularism = supremacism?
He also confirmed that hundreds of primary school teachers who were wearing the niqab at government-run schools were transferred last month to administrative jobs.
They even fired teachers. Governments are all alike.
Syria is the latest country to weigh in on the veil, perhaps the most visible hallmark of conservative Islam.
Yeah, that is why your country and Europe are going to s***, huh?
Not CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS, LOOTING BANKERS, or ENDLESS WARS!!
ALL the PROBLEMS in the world rest upon WHO is under that BLACK VEIL over there!!!
The wearing of veils has spread in other secular-leaning Arab countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, as well, with Jordan’s government trying to discourage it by playing up reports of robbers who wear veils as masks.
Okay, NOTICE that the TREND is in COUNTRIES nominally ALLIED with the U.S.
And Jordan using such PROPAGANDA makes you LAUGH!
All I can think of is ALL the COWBOY MOVIES I have seen when he mentioned the handkerchief as mask.
Turkey also bans Muslim headscarves in universities, with many saying attempts to allow them in schools amount to an attack on modern Turkey’s secular laws.
Also see: Mustafa Kemal was Jewish
European countries including France, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands are considering bans on the grounds that the veils are degrading to women.
Related: Europe Under an Iron Veil
France’s lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly approved a ban on wearing burqa-style Islamic veils on July 13.
Now it is stretching across the sea.
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Related: Going under cover: the Jewish women who are taking the veil
"Some cover just their hair and neck; others wrap their entire face, save their eyes, with the loose cloth. They call their head-covering a sal, refusing to acknowledge the resemblance to its Muslim twin, the hijab."
So where is the law outlawing the sexist and supremacist SAL?
