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[โ€“] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, but there is a somewhat thorny question here: Where does the dictation start?

Many of these students and their families are being dictated to by Sunni wahabbist imams trained and funded by Saudi oil money, and they actually come from cultures and religious traditions that didnโ€™t give a shit about the abaya in the โ€˜60s and โ€˜70s.

[โ€“] Syndic@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Well how about they tackle the foreign financial support of such extremist religious subgroups then? How about they provide more public information about the personal rights of women to choose themself what they wear? How about providing better infrastructure with properly trained social workers to better help such women to flee from such oppressive households?

Any of these examples would be several times better at actually improving the lives of such women. Definitely more than them being forced to not wear something. Women who are forced to wear such stuff should be helped to understand that it isn't right for them to be forced to wear something they don't want. Guess what certainly doesn't help in that task, the state also dictating what they can't wear.