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It's the Ayatollahs in Iran. Conservative, authoritarian and male dominated.

In most of the Islamic world there are no laws, yet different sorts of covering are worn. By both men and women.

In some places the guidelines are pretty well ignored. In most they aren't.

There is no reason to assume that European dress is in any way superior or a better option. In hot and sand6 places it generally isn't.

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How is it disingenuous to say that most wearers of traditional clothing do so out of choice?

Men too in some Islamic cultures wear clothes that fit those cultures, and have strict modesty rules too.

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Don't worry. They'll be waking up their sleeper cells where you are first.
newsweek.com/maga-warns-jihadi-sleeper-cells-us-after-israel-strikes-iran-2085324

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See above, Bobko.

It doesn't mean that either, The word simply means covering and can be anything from a full burka (used in sandstorms to a baseball bat and Covid mask, more popular than you think.

In parts of the Arab world, black covid masks have pretty well entirely replaced the veil since they're convenient and disposable.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [196]


That doesn't reflect well on you. I doubt Torq lives in a basement, and I certainly don't.

So tell us,


So how do you know this forbidden information that you made up?

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The word hijab just means covering. It can mean a throw on a sofa, a tarpaulin on the back of a trailer or some tissue paper keeping flies off a breadboard.

For clothing, it can mean a near invisible scarf or one of those very elegant turbans you see in the posher bits of Istanbul. Most women in Persia have always worn them. It's only the most secular people who don't.

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Learn manners.


It is optional, and many choose to wear them. Some people 8n Europe wear hijab. Does that trigger you?


I'll write what I want. Who the hell do you think you are?


Part of their culture, and very widespread.

Travel / 3 nights in Krakow and 4 in Zakopane this June [8]


That's not a plus.

The people who go to Zakopane go for cool weather and a family atmosphere.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Hijab just means a covering. Worn for centuries.

Although population in Persia is dense, it's mostly small town life. The colour photos you see online of fashion people or radical students are t exactly typical. Just like many women in Europe, they'd put a coat on to cover revealing clothing if they went outdoors.

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Most always did.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [196]


So how do you "know" all this then?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Not exactly universal in Iran. Some places there have always been among the most conservative in the world.

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Do you remember the "Bible Code" codswallop that some Orthodox Jewish people and some Protestant evangelicals in America were getting all worked up over.

There was a best-selling book about 30 or so years ago. It said that if you number crunch parts of the Old Testament in a really ultramodern computer like a 386 or even a pentium. You can see predictions of future events encoded within it, something to do with repetitions of characters to which the researcher had assigned arbitrary numerical values.

It didn't predict this though.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Potentially yes.

It could certainly make the Kurds happy. They'd be oil rich too.

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Quite.

And some countries charge a lot more for that.


£420 is a very reasonable price for short notice air travel between Iran and Poland.

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Definitely not among the Persians however politicians in Israel have mentioned federalising Iran.

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Remember that the splitting of Iran that some suggest isn't splitting Persians.

Arabistan in the south may as well be separate anyway. The risk is that states in the north may be susceptible to orc influence.

Plus of course Iraq and Arabistan would want to be together and neighbouring ethnostate countries in the north would want to annexe the parts nearest to them. There are pluses and minuses in that. The Persians would of course still have Persia. They would not however have much oil.


Putler will cling on for dear life.

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It's possible to empathise with people who suffer at the hands of all three appalling governments involved in this.

What do you think of the suggested plan to federalise or split Iran? Israel likes it however there are a couple of fatal flaws.

Travel / Traveling! What to do in Warsaw and Krakow? [39]


Hard to know what you mean by that. They're cities.

I'd avoid Krakow which suffers from over tourism badly however Warsaw is worth a visit.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [196]


Not using slouch terminology would be a place to start.


Is there a stereotype that psheky are murderous then?


They aren't 'marginalised' and you would do well to cast your pinhole eyes towards the top of the screen and read the name of the forum.

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That which you ray to dis is is simply normal life, and is also unrelated to the current conflict.


Tell that to the people swinging from ropes in Iran.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [951]

Reflect on the damage that 14 years of a rightwing government can do, and rejoice that we've got a decade at least to make the rich bastards in the south pay through the nose (I would personally just have the fund managers, the Tory MPs and Phil and Kirstie sent away for reeducation).

BTW, the railway line hasn't been built because nobody wants it. A Tory idea designed to make millions for their chums that has been defeated by people power,

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You do realise that the newspaper in question has a largely over 70 and ultra traditionalist newspapers.

In Poland where the newspapers exist to say how wonderful the new bridges, stadiums and monuments are and how great the leader is and avoid mentioning anything that looks bad in case an outsider bothers to translate and read it. That and endless political trivia and finance data.

Over there however, the newspapers waist to say "why oh why" and to make criticisms in order to to either advance the interests of the political party they support or to generally effect change.

If a Polish-style newspaper went on sale in the U.K. it would go bust immediately. Nobody would read it due to being boring.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [196]


No.

If the Pole in question had not emigrated, perhaps they'd have murdered someone at home...


From chappatti, a type of Indian bread that emigre Poles in the U.K. encountered.

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True. Was the guy in the mugshot the worst serial killer because he screwdrivered 100 women or the best because he was so successful at it?

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [196]


Another performative term.

Is Korvinus 12 or 50?

And the perp's nationality is irrelevant.

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Religious extremists never do. Anywhere.


That's where you'll find the worst of them all.

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Extreme voices are best ignored.

Whether they've got a shtreimel or a soutane.

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Religious maniacs and YouTube. What a combination.

UK, Ireland / The best way for a Polish person to learn English? [46]


They still have bilingual road signs as far as I know

Minority languages should be cherished. The French are probably the worst in Europe by far at protecting them. Arguably they despise them.