Leah Forchheimer
9-25-2009
3:18
In the United States of America women walk around in close to nothing on. Most clothing has holes in it and people think the shorter a skirt or dress the better. Yet, ruled by the Shariah law, women not only cannot be exposed, but they cannot even wear pants. If a woman does decide to wear pants, she will be fined two hundred dollars as well as face up to forty lashes. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein was faced with these charges along with thirteen other women in the restaurant. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein is a journalist and a former United Nations employee, and was fined because she was wearing a blouse and a pair of green slacks. Marjane Satrapi, a graphic novel writer, spoke out about how women must cover up because it might make men sexually aroused, but men are allowed to have different hair cuts and not have to wear a vial over their heads.
Not only was this article about how women are not allowed to wear the types of clothing they want, but it is also about how men still have more rights than women do. Men can walk around in what ever they want and not be find two hundred dollars and be threatened by forty lashes. I think women should not have to be told what to wear if it is coving their bodies. It may be appropriate to tell them not to walk around in a bathing suit, but I think women should be able to wear pants under the Shariah law. Women should not have to feel threatened if they are wearing pants and men are allowed to wear what ever they want to. When I think of ‘inappropriate’ attire, I think of really short shorts with holes in them and a tank top, not a blouse and a pair of green slacks.
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