[Reader-list] Brouhaha Over the Veil

[Tapas Ray]

Sikand ... indeed everyone ... has the right to judge. Whether the one 
who is judged will accept the judgement or not is upto him/her. If (s)he 
does not wish to be judged, (s)he should shun ALL human contact, however 
remote.

On another plane, it is not so much a question of right but something 
fundamental, one could say an ontological fact: when I acknowledge the 
existence of the other as other, this very act of acknowledgement "as 
other" is an act of judgement, which introduces a difference between 
self and other.

Tapas

Ateya Khorakiwala wrote:
> This statement :
> 
> "Personally, I find women dressed in the demure Muslim gown more
> dignified than skimpily-dressed ones who blindly follow every Western
> fashion and consider their own cultural traditions as 'primitive'."
> 
> The whole point is that women's bodies and what they wear is not for
> you to judge, its not for you to decide what women look dignified in,
> 'dignity' is eventually just another word used to control women's
> sexualities