Tim Blair

Maybe the Epstein Barr virus sounds too jewish to be allowed in Saudi Arabia.

Next up, a study on how clitoridectomy reduces ovarian cancer!

Man, they must have some big viruses over there.

Seems like I remember the veils also helped protect from bullets to the back of the head in soccer stadiums... unless of course they did something else wrong.

If it protects from nose & throat cancers & Epstein-Barr disease, why is the veil worn only by Saudi women? Clearly Saudi men, as breadwinners with such dependent (& often enough multiple-wife & myriad-children) families should be forced to wear the veil too.

You wouldn't be trying to whip up some racial hatred now, would you?

Any obscenities perpetrated against women in Australia lately?

There was a recent report that a lot of those same women were suffering health effects of vitamin D shortage, since they got no dairy in their diet and had no exposure to the sun to permit their skin cells to produce Vitamin D.

The veil also restricts the vision to whatever is directly in front of the wearer. Is there a picture of that Canadian doctor?

And all along I thought cancers were a result of an errant cellular mutation.

Any obscenities perpetrated against women in Australia lately?

Miranda, you are a living obscenity.

Libertarian Muslims (oxymoron) now have a solution! They now wear blinkers as this stops them getting bad thoughts looking at women.

This solution should sweep the middle east unless the burka is a excuse to control female sexual expression...

Hate to contemplate the hygiene under the chador of Auntie Fester...
The dress might keep some germs out, but it helps breeding enough to wipe out a small (infidel) nation.

Miranda, the reason your statement is moronic is because abuses against Aussie women (mutilation, slavery, domestic abuse, rape) are illegal and a woman suffering abuse can seek legal redress.

in places like Saudia, genital mutilation is not only legal, but required for a good marriage; woman have no rights in Saudia (can't even drive) and are thus enslaved to their husbands/fathers; can expect to be legally beaten by their male guardians; and if they are raped and this is discovered, it is the woman who is likely blamed and might suffer the death penalty for fornication or adultery.

Genius, your moral equivalence is just astonishing.

I don't like wanton racism either and hate terms like towel-head, sand-nigger etc. I think there are plenty of good Muslims out there.

BUT, your desire to embrace another culture means that you shit on the rights of the women of that culture. You do Arab women no favours by minimising what they suffer.

Unfortunately, many Arab women are complicit in their own subjugation.

For an inspiring read about Arab women (one Saudi) who are calling the men on their abuses, read this:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/407998.html

Because of pervasive inbreeding,Saudi women wear veils so no one can say for sure a man's mother, wife and sister are the same person.

If the Canadian doctor likes them so much, he can wear them. I just love reading all the justifications for keeping women wrapped up and out of sight. The louder they talk about it, the more idiotic they sound.

Well, they should be more concerned with the fact that the Koran itself allows men to have sex with children:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=239

That's why alcohol is also forbidden there...Did you ever smell a beer fart under one of those burkhas? Deadly!

Consider the inhumanity, these Arab women have to smell their own breath 24/7.

Brill, you blogfool! The real blog-enemy is Tim Bloghead Blair, not the Saudis!

Not to get _too_ personal, JDB, but exactly what were the circumstances under which you found yourself smelling a beer fart under a burqha? And whose burqha was it? Yours? Or someone else's?

"You wouldn't be trying to whip up some racial hatred now, would you?

Any obscenities perpetrated against women in Australia lately?

Posted by: Miranda Divide at March 25, 2004 at 05:07 AM"

Ah, I was going to post some stinging rejoinder to this moron, but I gotta go put on makeup, jeans, and a sweater, drive to the job that I have because I'm educated, and then go on a date after work.

Darn. I could be wearing a veil instead.

How Western life sucks...

The burqa is only the fashion expression of gender apartheid practices that even protect unveiled women. On a recent trip to London, my daughter and a male friend were kicked out of a public Middle Eastern teahouse because FEMALES WERE NOT ALLOWED. Yes, sure, one might be troubled by this (illegal?) Riyahdization of the West. But the lucky girl may have been spared a coughing fit since the place was thick with hookah smoke. She realized that the Muslim proprietor was really just honoring her as he shoved her out the door.

That was in LONDON?

Quentin thinks I am a "living obscenity". Must be a Bulldogs fan.

"You do Arab women no favours by minimising what they suffer."

And what favours are you bestowing, giving vent to another bloghead-sanctioned rant about arabs and muslims, under the guise of some ostentatious tut-tutting about the rights of women.

Any serious attempt to address the rights of women - of any race, creed or nationality - on this blogmire is tantemount to wanking in the wind.

Sortelli, YES, in London. The irony is that UK Immigration almost incarcerated my daughter the night before because she did not have a work visa to shoot the cover of Russian Vogue (no money is earned and the photographer sent no visa, only a plane ticket). They deported her the next day back to the States, but grudgingly allowed her to sleep over at her hotel. It was that one awful night's dinner that she and her friend tried to get at the Middle Eastern teahouse/ restaurant...

Happy ending: a new Middle Eastern restaurant has opened 'round the corner from home and its Iraqi owner even prepares special dishes for her. Also, Australian Vogue soon...)

Miranda Divide kindly asks that no man or woman on this blog should discuss the rights or the lack of rights of women at home or abroad. She sees us for the sexist, racist, ethnocentric, multiculturally insensitive and simply ignorant bloggers that we are.

Because she is one, she knows that only special people on other blogs have the moral genius and authority to condemn male chauvinism in the West, while "contextualizing" male supremacy in Muslim culture. We bloggers here would make the mistake of seeing one as rather mild and annoying, and the other as brutal and demeaning. Aren't we stupid and hateful to comment on the veil and oppression, when Western women STILL cannot join the Augusta National Golf Club?

Anyway, until we are Naomi-Wolf-serious and find her blogsite, it's none of our business. The importation of immigrant Muslim culture and an Islamist terror campaign being waged against us are obviously beside the point. Completely cretinous tut-tutters, we are