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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 07:57 PM Sep 2016

ISIS just banned burkas — and you won’t believe why

The radical terrorist group ISIS has decided to ban women from wearing burkas, but not because of equal rights or a new position on the role of women.

In a humiliating turn, ISIS can’t have women wearing the veil in security offices in Mosul, Iraq, because it endangers their security, the Daily Mirror reports.

An insider explained to the Al Alam News Network that a series of deadly attacks on terror groups were carried out by women wearing burkas and niqabs over the last few months. Women will still be required to cover themselves while accompanying ISIS in public. Their restrictions are even more strict, requiring women to wear gauze to cover their eyes and gloves to cover the skin on their hands.

The terrorists have also banned smoking, dancing, watching any foreign television, and the internet.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/isis-just-banned-burkas-and-you-wont-believe-why/

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Calculating

(2,955 posts)
1. The terrorists have also banned smoking, dancing, watching any foreign television, and the internet.
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 08:03 PM
Sep 2016

Why don't they just go ahead and ban 'living' already. Maybe they should just all kill themselves or something.

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
4. Who'd miss their murdering idiocy..no one I can think of.
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 08:06 PM
Sep 2016

I say..Go for it. Self actualize already. .or whatever they call it.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
5. Those assholes are the biggest hypocrites in the world
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 08:11 PM
Sep 2016

the ISIS males smoke weed, smoke tobacco, fornicate with hookers (poor exploited girls/young women!), drink alcohol, do whatever the fuck they feel like doing! Apparently Muhammed gives ISIS terrorists the green light exception for doing His dirty work.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
9. Interestingly enough, at various points in history, Turkey, Iran & other Islamic nations...
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 08:32 PM
Sep 2016

...have banned such clothing as burkas and veils. As they've gone through periodic secular upheavals.

They know what it symbolizes. The fundamentalists among them know what it symbolizes. Everyone knows what it symbolizes. But here in the West, it's just a fashion choice, right?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

eissa

(4,238 posts)
12. "Everyone knows what it symbolizes"
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 11:25 PM
Sep 2016

I find it interesting that many progressives I've seen on various social media sites have rightly celebrated the death of a woman-hating icon. They have no problems ridiculing her misogynist platform, yet defend this oppressive garb as a choice. Women vote to subjugate themselves all the time, be it against voting and working outside the home, or covering up so as not to tempt men, or for mutilating vaginas to stem sexual desire. They should all be called out, not excused as "choices."

madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
10. Wait what? They won't be able to watch the internet and masturbate? They must have secret stashes
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 08:38 PM
Sep 2016

of Hustler and Penthouse.

ffr

(22,669 posts)
11. Talipublicans did what?
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 08:52 PM
Sep 2016

... banned smoking, dancing, watching any foreign television, and the internet.

DU haters!

Generic Brad

(14,274 posts)
13. They have nothing to fear, except...
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 11:38 PM
Sep 2016

....everything. What a bunch of low life jerks. Since they can't convince people, they have to resort to force. Clearly - that indicates extreme weakness on their positions. Their collapse is inevitable.

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