Freed by the Hijab.

What a load of old PC Toronto Star bollocks.

I find it strange but I don't remember seeing any articles asking muslim women who don't wear the Hijab, why they don't.

Personnaly, I don't have a problem with it, although I do with the Niqab. The Hijab looks good on the women I've seen wearing it. I still wonder though, how much of it is family or religeous pressure.

I'm not arsed either ray. I just see PC propaganda for what it is. The Star is a shameful rag.

I don't have that much a problem with a hijab woman. I do with a niqab though.

If I were in a hospital and a hooded niqab woman came at me with a needle I would would not be too receptive.

I still think its more of family pressure than free choice.

When I was living in the UK I did 'Islamic Studies' at the local Uni for two years at night school. That was in the 1990's. Most of the class were Muslims. One woman in the class wore a Hijab.

I went back to the UK last in 2007. I went to the mall in Manchester and I saw literally hundreds of Hijabs, Niqabs and Bhurkas.

It's a political statement. It says that these women don't want to be a part of our western society.

My grandmother used to wear a Hijab. She called it a kerchief. I actually wore bell bottoms at one time, had to give them up when styles changed. Who in their right mind gives a fuck what someone else is wearing... unless they're delusional and THINK they are the fashion police.

Politics in a headscarf Wada. I know why a lot more women are wearing the Niqab etc. What grates is the Star et al trying to make it out to be something that it isn’t.

I get it.

Some people don’t want to integrate and value their religion and culture more than they value being a Canadian or UK citizen.

That’s fine by me, Hasidic Jews have been doing the same for years. Jehovah’s Witnesses have some crazy things on the go too, as do other weirdo Christian sects.

Why can we not just call it as it is?

The article is bollocks as are all the excuses we normally hear to apologise for Islamic fundamentalists.

Freed by the Hijab. Burned by water. Born to the death.

that subway shouting business is an unlikely as your cousin delivering a pizza to a cougar orgy and living to tell about it in penthouse forum. pure phony baloney.

Eh, it wouldn't be the first time women felt liberated by wearing religion-mandated clothing.