Hey! I'm glad you posted that.

My mom teaches English as a Second Language and has several Muslim students. A couple of the girls are very quietly rebellious - will do things at school that they "shouldn't" and hope their parents don't find out... and it has always been hard for them when it comes to gym class, playing sports, etc. I am going to pass that link on for my mom. Thanks.

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Maybe I'm feeling sappy too, or, more likely, procrastinating leaving my warm apartment for the cold outside by being on ST, BUT...

I think that is really cool.

Of course some people would say it's a shame women even have to cover themselves like that but that's a WHOLE different discussion.

The clothes are quite stylish! Hope to see more Muslim women wearing them and working out!

having been at an all women's beach seeing orthodox jewish women in full length robes and hair coverings swimming, I just find it unsafe.

so I don't find it inspiring, I find it oppressive.

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Whether we agree with it or not, millions of women live like this. I like seeing them choose to be athletes because it is breaking out of the roles they were born into. It has to take a lot of courage.

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I too think it's great and the name made me chuckle: the Burqini. Hee-hee

I think this is pretty cool.

I also think it's pretty unfair to just make the blanket statement that it is oppressive without fully understanding the context in which many of these women are choosing to wear these clothes.

Take, for example, many Turkish Muslim women who were encouraged to stop wearing headscarves (hajib) under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who have, in recent years, revolted against the westernization of their culture by choosing to again wear the hajib. I agree, of course, that many Muslim women are oppressed under governments that are, for all intents and purposes, cultural patriarchal regimes, but I disagree that a certain type of dress can be classified as oppressive to all women when it's not the same thing to all women.

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