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bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7651231.stm

Saudi cleric favours one-eye veil.

The two-eyed look remains too seductive for Sheikh Habadan.

A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.

Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.

The question of how much of her face a woman should cover is a controversial topic in many Muslim societies.

The niqab is more common in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, but women in much of the Muslim Middle East wear a headscarf which covers only their hair.

Sheikh Habadan, an ultra-conservative cleric who is said to have wide influence among religious Saudis, was answering questions on the Muslim satellite channel al-Majd.

Starla · Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul

Those hussies! How dare they expose both their eyes! I've seen Muslim women in the U.S. with headscarves and yeah, they wear a lot of eye and face makeup. If my face was the only thing I could show to the rest of the world, I would do. Maybe they look seductive because the muslim men can't resist them. In such a case, I think castration might be a better alternative.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

Go Islam! But while this is a logical fallacy, show me any religion (and even Buddhism, which technically is more a philosophy) without nutters. Religion and nutters go together.

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

You are meant to respect other cultures but any culture that subjugates women like this, will always struggle to have redeeming features in my eyes.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I respect cultures. I don't respect religions.

Kimbop · Joined: 31 Mar 2008

There's already a thread on this.

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=135191&highlight=

And I DON'T respect all religions or cultures. Only some of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suttee

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."