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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:28 am Post subject: Muslim swimwear?? The BURQUINI!! |
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CRONULLA, Australia: As a teenager growing up in a Sydney suburb, Mecca Laalaa never felt anything but Australian, even though she was for the most part unable to engage in the most quintessential of Australian pastimes: swimming at the beach. "Restricted by my clothing," Laalaa explained.
She is a Muslim and has voluntarily worn the burqa, the traditional head-to- toe covering for Islamic women, since she was 14 years old....
She said her family was not that different from other Muslims in Australia. Most are moderate, she said.
Experts here agree. It is the radicals who grab the headlines, they say.
Laalaa said Muslims felt fully integrated into Australian life until the attacks on the United States of Sept. 11, 2001. That is when tensions mounted, when many Australians began looking at Muslims with suspicion.
"Before 9/11, they didn't know us," said Shayma Almoty, a friend of Laalaa's. "Now they've become afraid and fearful of us."
Ronya Chami, a 21-year-old accountant, chimed in: "Which is ridiculous." The message to other young Muslims, Chami said, is "Get out there and be part of Australia."
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Ahh... Australia...where immigration and intergration meet. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: Re: Muslim swimwear?? The BURQUINI!! |
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| happeningthang wrote: |
Ahh... Australia...where immigration and intergration meet. |
I'll give it, oh, 8 more hours before someone posts a crime involving a Muslim or Muslims in Australia. Money says it'll be a rape, and double or nothing says it'll be a gang rape. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| what a messes up religion that braiwashes women like that. Sickos |
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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Of course a society with a reported 40% of females working in the prostitution industry is utterly sane. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| riverboy wrote: |
| Of course a society with a reported 40% of females working in the prostitution industry is utterly sane. |
a defender of islam..how PC of you |
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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| A defender of prostitution. How morally just and even more PC. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with jinju. Any religion that makes people wear goofy costums is sick, sick, sick.
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: Muslim swimwear?? The BURQUINI!! |
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| [edit for possible poor taste] |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| riverboy wrote: |
| A defender of prostitution. How morally just and even more PC. |
except I didnt. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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HOT! |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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All religious people are crazy. Fully crazy. They have imaginary friends who tell them what to do. Bat Shit Crazy.
The costumes are crazy too. But huffdaddy, you need to grow a sense of proportion, don't you? I really don't think you to be very intelligent, despite your claims to have attended grad school at a top20 uni. Proportion is a key element of intelligence, and you are lacking that. Eh? Maybe you can spend all day today learning about it? It will change your life.
I dislike how lefties are tolerant of islamic intolerance but intolerant of the intolerance of islamic intolerance. It is crazy. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| The costumes are crazy too. But huffdaddy, you need to grow a sense of proportion, don't you? I really don't think you to be very intelligent, despite your claims to have attended grad school at a top20 uni. Proportion is a key element of intelligence, and you are lacking that. Eh? Maybe you can spend all day today learning about it? It will change your life. |
Funny. Keep on blossoming. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| BJWD wrote: |
The costumes are crazy too. But huffdaddy, you need to grow a sense of proportion, don't you? I really don't think you to be very intelligent, despite your claims to have attended grad school at a top20 uni. |
Umm, I never said grad school. Graduated, yes. But not grad school. Although I did take a few graduate level courses and worked with a lot of graduate students. Oh, and BTW, we're back in the top 10.
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| Proportion is a key element of intelligence, and you are lacking that. Eh? Maybe you can spend all day today learning about it? It will change your life. |
Proportion, eh? What proportion is that? How about perspective and objectivity. Are those important as well? I believe those are the traits you are in need of.
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| I dislike how lefties are tolerant of islamic intolerance but intolerant of the intolerance of islamic intolerance. It is crazy. |
Who's intolerant? I don't remember any of the lefties suggesting that right-wing-anti-Islamists should be kicked out of the country.
Anyways, I agreed with Jinju, remember? What's so intolerant about comparing the burkha to other religious garb? |
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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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Neither did I then. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
Umm, I never said grad school. Graduated, yes. But not grad school. Although I did take a few graduate level courses and worked with a lot of graduate students. Oh, and BTW, we're back in the top 10.
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Top ten eh? Congrats! |
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