Is veil (Burqa) mandatory for Muslim women?
Muslim Women take part in politics in most of the Islamic countries and engage in different occupations like doctors, nurses, lawyers, pilots etc. without wearing veil or burqa. Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Turkey have had women as Head of State. Muslim women are free to take part in sports and engage in any profession they like. But some communities of Muslim who are in minority in most Islamic countries except Saudi Arabia wearing veil while going out is mandatory. Is it because of religious law or just old tradition?
Gender Studies - 10 Answers
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Both religious law and tradition.
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No - but in some regions no woman would leave home without it. EDITS:- I read somewhere that it's not religious law as such - but it's become tradition for many.
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The on-going uprising in Middle east & North Africa is a sign they are tired of wearing it.
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No. In fact it was never originally a Muslim tradition, but rather an Arab one.
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The Muslim world is very diverse. These things depend on national laws. In Turkey, for example, a woman is not allowed to wear a hijab in a government building. In Saudi, women are not allowed out on the street unveiled. It all depends on where she is. Most modern-day burquas and abayas are made of polyester, and in China. Some people are adopting this more conservative interpretation of Islam (Wahabism).
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The Quran tells women to cover up. Veils and burqas are up to the culture. Iran, before the Revolution in 1979, was a very liberal Islamic country and women didn't have to wear any covering. Now that the conservative Islamic clergy are in charge, they make the women wear burqas or else they will be beaten or killed.
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Islam gives it as an option.... certain sick and twisted patriarchal Arab societies.....sets it as mandatory...against Islam's view set.....
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It's just tradition. the Koran says that women (and men) should be modest in dress. It does not say women have to wear burqas.
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Verse 033.059 translated by PICKTHAL: "O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful." If you hide the face recognition is not possible. So majority believes that hiding face completely is not mandatory. While going out overcoat or over garment is prescribed. Burqa is part of the old tradition. It is not mandatory. Modesty in dressing is prescribed and when going out wearing over garment in way that face is not hidden to make recognition impossible. Bohra community is conservative but their interpretation about Hijab is correct as they don Hijab when going out but do not hide face
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Saudi women, and those married to Saudi men have to veil; there's no compromise, this includes those women married to non Saudis who make them do so. Concerning Saudi Arabia; first they say it's culture, then they turn around and say it's religion; I wish they'd make up their minds. I had a run in with one of their religious guys in the Dhahran mall a while back; first he said its our culture, so I told him I'm not Arab; all of a sudden, he changes his tactic and says it's the Quran; it's like; make up your mind why don't you, and that's exactly how I felt at the time. Here in Saudi Arabia you'll see female doctors and nurses veil; you'll even have a female teacher in a co-ed school veil.
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Should America do what Japan is doing Immigrants worry as Japan discourages foreign workers
Should America do what Japan is doing Immigrants worry as Japan discourages foreign workers?
Maria Fransiska, a young, hard-working nurse from Indonesia, is just the kind of worker Japan would seem to need to replenish its aging work force. But Fransiska, 26, is having to fight to stay. To extend her three-year stint at a hospital outside Tokyo, she must pass a standardized nursing exam administered in Japanese, a test so difficult that only three of the 600 nurses brought here from Indonesia and the Philippines since 2007 have passed. So Fransiska spends 8 hours in Japanese language drills, on top of her day job at the hospital. Her dictionary is dog-eared from countless queries, but she is determined: Her starting salary of $2,400 (Rs.107,040) a month was 10 times what she could earn back home, and if she fails, she will never be allowed to return to Japan on the same programme again. “I think I have something to contribute here,†Fransiska said during a recent visit, spooning mouthfuls of rice and vegetables into the mouth of Heiichi Matsumaru, an 80-year-old patient recovering from a stroke. “If I could, I would stay here long-term, but it is not so easy.†Despite facing an imminent labour shortage as its population ages, Japan has done little to open itself up to immigration. In fact, as Fransiska and many others have discovered, the government is doing the opposite, actively encouraging both foreign workers and foreign graduates of its universities and professional schools to return home while protecting tiny interest groups—in the case of Fransiska, a local nursing association afraid that an influx of foreign nurses would lower industry salaries. http://www.livemint.com/2011/01/03233810/Immigrants-worry-as-Japan-disc.html?atype=tp
Immigration - 4 Answers
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No - the US is not built on the same principles as Japan. Japan is a country that identifies itself by its homogeneous race, communal culture that sneers at individualism, and a closed society that is always suspicious of outsiders. The US is none of these things - and ought never to be. Plus, Japan is going to pay dearly for this demographic catastrophe waiting to happen - their population is projected to drop to barely 1/3 of its present number by the 22nd Century.
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Yes. I know many people think that language "diversity" is a good thing. I also know many people that think they can drive just as well after a few drinks as they can cold sober. A national language is critical to the security of the United States. I'm not saying we shouldn't learn foreign languages, but that every citizen of the United States should be fluent in English, and that only English should be used in tests and official documents of the United States. I expect criticism. But, think on this: language is SO DIVISIVE it is what was used by God at the Tower of Babel to scatter humanity!!! Seems to have worked pretty good too. I really don't give a @#$% how "politically correct" it is. If the United States is to remain strong and unified we MUST adopt an official language!
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If you think they are calling us racists and xenophobes now, just imagine if we did adopt the Japanese approach! Rod's answer makes perfect sense and I couldn't agree more.
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No. US and Japan are different. And I don't understand this concept of labor shortage considering their unemployment rates. College graduates are having a hard time finding work. How is encouraging immigration going to remedy that? BTW, Japan has problems with illegal immigrants too. They have Chinese as their primary illegal immigrants. For America, we should not discourage immigration as long as it's legal.
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Maria Fransiska, a young, hard-working nurse from Indonesia, is just the kind of worker Japan would seem to need to replenish its aging work force. But Fransiska, 26, is having to fight to stay. To extend her three-year stint at a hospital outside Tokyo, she must pass a standardized nursing exam administered in Japanese, a test so difficult that only three of the 600 nurses brought here from Indonesia and the Philippines since 2007 have passed. So Fransiska spends 8 hours in Japanese language drills, on top of her day job at the hospital. Her dictionary is dog-eared from countless queries, but she is determined: Her starting salary of $2,400 (Rs.107,040) a month was 10 times what she could earn back home, and if she fails, she will never be allowed to return to Japan on the same programme again. “I think I have something to contribute here,†Fransiska said during a recent visit, spooning mouthfuls of rice and vegetables into the mouth of Heiichi Matsumaru, an 80-year-old patient recovering from a stroke. “If I could, I would stay here long-term, but it is not so easy.†Despite facing an imminent labour shortage as its population ages, Japan has done little to open itself up to immigration. In fact, as Fransiska and many others have discovered, the government is doing the opposite, actively encouraging both foreign workers and foreign graduates of its universities and professional schools to return home while protecting tiny interest groups—in the case of Fransiska, a local nursing association afraid that an influx of foreign nurses would lower industry salaries. http://www.livemint.com/2011/01/03233810/Immigrants-worry-as-Japan-disc.html?atype=tp
Immigration - 4 Answers
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No - the US is not built on the same principles as Japan. Japan is a country that identifies itself by its homogeneous race, communal culture that sneers at individualism, and a closed society that is always suspicious of outsiders. The US is none of these things - and ought never to be. Plus, Japan is going to pay dearly for this demographic catastrophe waiting to happen - their population is projected to drop to barely 1/3 of its present number by the 22nd Century.
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Yes. I know many people think that language "diversity" is a good thing. I also know many people that think they can drive just as well after a few drinks as they can cold sober. A national language is critical to the security of the United States. I'm not saying we shouldn't learn foreign languages, but that every citizen of the United States should be fluent in English, and that only English should be used in tests and official documents of the United States. I expect criticism. But, think on this: language is SO DIVISIVE it is what was used by God at the Tower of Babel to scatter humanity!!! Seems to have worked pretty good too. I really don't give a @#$% how "politically correct" it is. If the United States is to remain strong and unified we MUST adopt an official language!
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If you think they are calling us racists and xenophobes now, just imagine if we did adopt the Japanese approach! Rod's answer makes perfect sense and I couldn't agree more.
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No. US and Japan are different. And I don't understand this concept of labor shortage considering their unemployment rates. College graduates are having a hard time finding work. How is encouraging immigration going to remedy that? BTW, Japan has problems with illegal immigrants too. They have Chinese as their primary illegal immigrants. For America, we should not discourage immigration as long as it's legal.
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Friday, August 7, 2009
A different life... a rewarding one with purpose
A different life... a rewarding one with purpose?
We are both sick of the society we are living in full of pretentious people, materialistic status and expectations to fit in to the standards. We want an eye opening, life changing 'sea change' so called, I am a registered nurse and my partner is a builder/ carpenter fully qualified and experienced. Most of my nursing experience has been with children. We were thinking somewhere like a village in Papua New Guinea, indonesia, nepal, japan... anywhere! Somewhere our skills would be much more needed and rewarding then they are here.
Other - Destinations - 3 Answers
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I admire you. Our system is terrible broken. It does not work. Nor do the people in it.
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I say go for it. The society we live in is way to materialistic and I think Papua New Guinea sounds like the best place. Also here is a good website for what you are looking for: http://www.expatify.com/advice/10-best-places-to-live-for-escaping-world-conflict.html Hope I helped
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Where do you live at the moment? Most developed countries have organisations that can help you move to a remote location and potentially even give some financial support for the move. In Australia it's Australian Volunteers International. As a nurse and a builder you could definitely help improve the lives in many developing countries. You also have to consider though that many indigenous people are not open to 'charity' as such, I personally know this from Papua New Guinea for example. To set up a small business that allows people to trade with you instead of accepting your charity, allows them to keep their dignity and allows you to contribute to their lives.
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We are both sick of the society we are living in full of pretentious people, materialistic status and expectations to fit in to the standards. We want an eye opening, life changing 'sea change' so called, I am a registered nurse and my partner is a builder/ carpenter fully qualified and experienced. Most of my nursing experience has been with children. We were thinking somewhere like a village in Papua New Guinea, indonesia, nepal, japan... anywhere! Somewhere our skills would be much more needed and rewarding then they are here.
Other - Destinations - 3 Answers
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I admire you. Our system is terrible broken. It does not work. Nor do the people in it.
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I say go for it. The society we live in is way to materialistic and I think Papua New Guinea sounds like the best place. Also here is a good website for what you are looking for: http://www.expatify.com/advice/10-best-places-to-live-for-escaping-world-conflict.html Hope I helped
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Where do you live at the moment? Most developed countries have organisations that can help you move to a remote location and potentially even give some financial support for the move. In Australia it's Australian Volunteers International. As a nurse and a builder you could definitely help improve the lives in many developing countries. You also have to consider though that many indigenous people are not open to 'charity' as such, I personally know this from Papua New Guinea for example. To set up a small business that allows people to trade with you instead of accepting your charity, allows them to keep their dignity and allows you to contribute to their lives.
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
What happen when female clitoris is removed
What happen when female clitoris is removed?
Indonesia bars doctors from female genital cutting By Achmad Sukarsono Wed Oct 4, 3:49 AM ET JAKARTA (Reuters) - Doctors and nurses in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, can no longer perform female genital cutting, a senior Health Ministry official said on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT Some Indonesian communities encourage parents to cut parts of a newborn daughter's clitoris although the country's Islamic groups are in dispute over such non-therapeutic practices. Sri Hermiyanti, who heads the ministry's family health directorate, said symbolic female circumcisions that do not involve physical damaging of the child still could be carried out. "Hurting, damaging, incising, cutting the clitoris are not allowed. These acts violate the reproductive rights of these girls and harm their organs," said the doctor, adding the announcement has been circulated to health workers since April.
Singles & Dating - 9 Answers
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Nothing happens aside from pain and risk of possible infection....*cries*
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From what I have heard all pleasurable sensation is lost and sex becomes very painful. It might as well be as bad as a man getting his balls cut off.
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Same thing as would happen if you muslims had your balls removed
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Removing the clitoris would prevent the female from ever being able to achieve clitoral orgasm, bit like cutting of a mans penis. Women do however have other means of achieving orgasm, both vaginal and Gspot, these are a lot more elusive for most women though, some never have anything other than clitoral. Female cirucsicion is cruel and masochistic and should be outlawed worldwide, it serves no purpose other than to deny a women sexual pleasure
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Same as when a man has his penis cut off....
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GOSH! I HOPE I NEVER FIND OUT!
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Any genital cutting or slicing should be illegal male or female(Except for religious reasons). It is just as bad to circumcise a boy as it is a girl because they serve the same purpose. Nothing. Around the world, people think that it is disgusting when they hear about an uncircumcised male but jump to ban female circumcisions.
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The woman loses the ability to achieve orgasm. Some women can achieve orgasm through penetration alone but it is not common. A lot of times, when this has been performed, it is not in a sterile environment which puts the woman at great risk of infection. These infections have been known to be so bad at times that women's entire wombs have basically collapsed and had it not been for foreign aide doctors checking these women, many may have died so I am sure that many do. Infections can cause all sorts of complications are painful and can make a woman extremely sick.
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female circumsion is worse than male circumcision - it causes a lot of scar tissue so any sexual activities not only prevents any pleasure but can actually be extremely painful. One of the reasons for female circumcision is that it prevents a woman from cheating on her husband, because due to the pain they wouldnt want sex anyway. Other myths are that the clitoris poisins the baby.
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Indonesia bars doctors from female genital cutting By Achmad Sukarsono Wed Oct 4, 3:49 AM ET JAKARTA (Reuters) - Doctors and nurses in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, can no longer perform female genital cutting, a senior Health Ministry official said on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT Some Indonesian communities encourage parents to cut parts of a newborn daughter's clitoris although the country's Islamic groups are in dispute over such non-therapeutic practices. Sri Hermiyanti, who heads the ministry's family health directorate, said symbolic female circumcisions that do not involve physical damaging of the child still could be carried out. "Hurting, damaging, incising, cutting the clitoris are not allowed. These acts violate the reproductive rights of these girls and harm their organs," said the doctor, adding the announcement has been circulated to health workers since April.
Singles & Dating - 9 Answers
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Nothing happens aside from pain and risk of possible infection....*cries*
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From what I have heard all pleasurable sensation is lost and sex becomes very painful. It might as well be as bad as a man getting his balls cut off.
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Same thing as would happen if you muslims had your balls removed
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Removing the clitoris would prevent the female from ever being able to achieve clitoral orgasm, bit like cutting of a mans penis. Women do however have other means of achieving orgasm, both vaginal and Gspot, these are a lot more elusive for most women though, some never have anything other than clitoral. Female cirucsicion is cruel and masochistic and should be outlawed worldwide, it serves no purpose other than to deny a women sexual pleasure
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Same as when a man has his penis cut off....
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GOSH! I HOPE I NEVER FIND OUT!
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Any genital cutting or slicing should be illegal male or female(Except for religious reasons). It is just as bad to circumcise a boy as it is a girl because they serve the same purpose. Nothing. Around the world, people think that it is disgusting when they hear about an uncircumcised male but jump to ban female circumcisions.
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The woman loses the ability to achieve orgasm. Some women can achieve orgasm through penetration alone but it is not common. A lot of times, when this has been performed, it is not in a sterile environment which puts the woman at great risk of infection. These infections have been known to be so bad at times that women's entire wombs have basically collapsed and had it not been for foreign aide doctors checking these women, many may have died so I am sure that many do. Infections can cause all sorts of complications are painful and can make a woman extremely sick.
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female circumsion is worse than male circumcision - it causes a lot of scar tissue so any sexual activities not only prevents any pleasure but can actually be extremely painful. One of the reasons for female circumcision is that it prevents a woman from cheating on her husband, because due to the pain they wouldnt want sex anyway. Other myths are that the clitoris poisins the baby.
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