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Africa North
Egypt female students slam burka ban on campus
2009-10-08
[Al Arabiya Latest] A group of Egyptian female students threatened to sue the minister of higher education and the president of Cairo University over a ban on wearing the face veil, or burka, on campus, local press reported Tuesday.

Students wearing the niqab, an Arabic term for face veil, have been trying to meet Cairo University President Dr. Hossam Kamel for the past two days in order to protest the ban. After failing to do so, they threatened to sue him and the Minister of Higher Education Dr. Hani Helal, the Egyptian daily independent al-Masry al-Youm reported Tuesday.

Students affiliated with the Islamist Labor Party supported the disgruntled girls and organized a rally in front of the university hostel where the girls were denied admission because of the face veil. The Labor Party, originally socialist but now turned Islamist, has been suspended since 2000 by the Egyptian Committee for Political Parties.
Posted by:Fred

#5  We're postulating the women who want to wear burkas, g(r)omgoru. Women like your boss are in a different category. Besides, those are skills everyone, male and female, should have, and if I ever seriously go back to school I'm going to acquire some of them. The writer Robert A. Heinlein wrote a more extensive list somewhere.
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-10-08 18:48  

#4  TW watch it---I work for a woman.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-10-08 16:20  

#3  A woman with salable skills is a better helpmate to her husband, g(r)omgoru. Personally, I would have gone for dressmaking, cookery and early child development, with basic house repairs for the advanced students, but nobody asked me.
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-10-08 15:07  

#2  Read, what read? They're learning to recite Quran and sew suicide vests.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-10-08 05:25  

#1  Just what are those burkha clad hussies doing learning to read? Somebody get a shovel and bag of rocks.
Posted by: ed   2009-10-08 00:52  

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