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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wearing the hijab for modesty causes less destruction in society than the wanton, reckless, immediate gratification and satisfaction of lust. We see this in teenage pregnancies, adultery, STDs, broken families that result, cancer, broken lives.

I do not respect such behavior but you still have the right to engage in it. Normally I do not voice my opinions about this and follow a live and let live philosophy,  but if you think its fine for you to criticize women who choose to wear hijab, then its fine for you to hear about destructive western behavior.[/quote]

I agree with you pp.  Teenage pregnancies, adultery, STDs, are all bad.  I don't know what cancer (?) has to do with it, maybe you mean HPV?  Anyway, I managed to wait to have sex until I was married, and so did my husband, all the while wearing whatever I like.  Swimsuits, shorts, the whole shebang.  Being sexually conservative has NOTHING to do with hijab.  Nothing!  Look at the problems we have in many Muslim countries:  an epidemic of unreported rapes from strangers and known people alike, sexual assault of women in the street, leering and catcalling women in the street, disrespect of women and their place in society.  Plus, from what I saw living in a Muslim country, people still "indulged" their lusts, they just did so in secret.  What exactly is better about living in that kind of society?  I will take the teenage pregnancies over that, thanks.[/quote]

For every woman that dressed in bikinis, booty short, regular shorts, whatever, yet maintained her virginity and morality  I can find you twenty more that did not. For every hijabi woman that was secretly promiscuous I can find you twenty that were not.[/quote]

Again, pp, would you rather live in a country where women are assaulted in the street in broad daylight, a country that has an unreported rape epidemic- or a country full of non-virgins?  I know which I would choose.[/quote]

NP, but why doe sit have to be either or?[/quote]

Hijab-defending pp is presenting a false dichotomy- that our choices are hijab-wearing piety or "lustful" western countries where all the teenagers are pregnant and everyone has some sort of sex-induced cancer.  Having lived in a Muslim country where most of the women wore hijab, even IF her characterization were true, I would STILL choose the Western country.  [/quote]
I would never live in a country were woman wear a Tichel but Im ok with a hijab. In fact Iran is looking pretty good, they have a woman Vice President, something the US has yet to accomplish.[/quote]

There are 12 vice presidents in Iran.  Only the first VP is what would be equivalent to our VP.  The woman VP heads, what else?, the Center for Women and Family Participation Affairs[/quote]
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VP  Masoumeh Ebtekar is head of Iran’s Environmental Protection Organization, shame on you.[/quote]

Not the poster you're trying to shame, but if you posted that a woman is VP Iran and intended to imply that it's similar to a VP in the US (which readers here would naturally assume), then you're misleading people. The position you describe seems more like what would be, in the US, EPA Admibistrator or Secretary of State of Labor (both of which positions have already been held by women).

FWIW, France's Perkins served as US Secretary of Labor in the 1930s.[/quote]

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