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Originally Posted by HOZ
Australia;
The GREAT Bikini Protest!!!!
SABRA LANE: March organiser, Christine Hawkins, describes herself as a Melbourne grandmother.
She says she was outraged by recent comments made by Sydney Sheikh Taj El Din Al Hilali, comparing scantily clad women to uncovered meat.
CHRISTINE HAWKINS: We're encouraging people to wear beachwear. The reason for that... we've called it the 'The Great Australian Bikini March' because it's got an interesting, iconic image for Australians that most Australians, you know, even from their childhoods remember summer holidays with great fondness, of going down to the beach, sitting in the sun, warm, swimming, lots of nice memories. |
I don't think that anyone there was protesting the islamic faith rather I can't help but think they were protesting these idiotic comments
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If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.
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Now it could just be my morals speaking but something tells me that those comments are despicable on every level and having someone protest that - even if it is through a bikini march is allright in my books. No one there is saying don't practice the islamic faith, rather they are stating that the blame for rape as in the case of Bilal Skaf can not be placed at the feet of the women.
With regards to what Blair said - having been to England for a couple months, what he said wasn't popular but it is what everyone is feeling right now. There is a significant racial divide between different ethnic groups which is leading to an increased crime rate (look at the rate of stabbings for instance). Accomidations need to be made on both sides when it comes to racial divides people need to be more accepting of the immigrants culture while at the same time the immigrant needs to step out and be more accepting of the cultures of the land where they now live.