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This has little to do with Islam. This is about social practices in a post-agricultural culture that has adopted what was originally status signalling into a pseudo-religious rule. As the lady says: "my own grandmother never wore a burqa".

This comment took me an hour. Wonder why I haven't posted any stories today?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Sep 1st, 2006 at 10:51:27 AM EST

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