https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1544409932883181569

  • pink_mist [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I don't know any American muslims that look like this, do you? But if there were six muslims on the Supreme Court I wouldn't even be mad.

    Getting mad for the imaginary muslim in your head and muslim internet larpers is sus. I thought the dirtbag left was better than this? And when I think about the actual, existing people I know who this image will outrage, it puts a smile on my face.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      i live in a country that has probably twice as many muslim immigrants as the us and i've seen two women in niqquabs and one in a burka in my entire life. two of them within the same week, at the same busy metropolitan subway station, immediately after the US invaded afghanistan. made me think it was a CIA psyop even back then.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I genuinely don't understand the outrage about burqas. We have uncontroversial laws about public indecency so if someone was wearing clothes outside that were deemed too revealing it would be a crime. Therefore the distinction isn't over freedom it's over where the line is drawn on what counts as too revealing which is a very different argument.

        Also people forget that as recently as the 70's in England women wore headscarves outside as it was regarded as immodest to do otherwise

        • Teekeeus
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          25 days ago

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          • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            The Amish and Mennonites still have women using bonnets and stuff out in pubic, pretty similar concept and they're ultra-Christians.

            • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Some of the craziest parties I’ve been to were thrown by Amish girls on Rumshpringa. No bonnets involved during those lol

                • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  The big thing was these two girls went on Rumshpringa around the same time and found that they were both queer, one a lesbian and one bi. So instead of getting baptized into the church, they left. But there was a long period where their parents believed they were coming home and they’d basically already decided not to.

                  So combine that with working in food service, which is already full of party people, especially back-of-house, and then both having crazy high tolerances for alcohol and a bunch of drugs, they were just regulars at these ragers. They showed up at some college parties and some music scene parties and we just kept crossing paths. They’d tend to party hop and after 2 am or so go back home and continue through the night. They invited me back a couple of times. I honestly don’t remember much, but they were good vibes for the most part. I’m pretty sure we all had our fair share of breaking down crying but idk

          • Vncredleader
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            2 years ago

            Yes. The Mitpahat for Jewish women, and various headscarfs in a lot of christian traditions. Today mostly among Antibaptists. For both faiths it was more specifically about during prayers, the Antibaptists making it full time is a distinct difference. Pretty much all denominations expected them to be warn in church at their founding, ie Martin Luthor, Calvin, etc.Roman Catholic woman had to wear head coverings at mass until the 1983 Code of Canon Law though I have no idea if that was enforced outside of Spain, and still today it is sorta expected when meeting the pope.

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Well nuns wear habits but in the UK it wasn't a religious thing just the social ideas of what counted as revealing clothing

    • FuckingFerengi [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I remember going to a Palestine protest in nyc, and talking to the Muslims that I met there. Many of them had gone to a pro-sex workers protest just a few days before, and these were men. People really underestimate the progressive currents within the American Muslim population, especially among the youth.