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2007-02-15 Europe
Beret instead of headscarf for Muslim women?
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Posted by ryuge 2007-02-15 09:19|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Oh for goodness sake, everyone knows the beret is a French symbol, like the white flag.
Posted by Spot">Spot  2007-02-15 09:47||   2007-02-15 09:47|| Front Page Top

#2 No muslima's wardrobe is complete without a full face beret.
Posted by ed 2007-02-15 10:02||   2007-02-15 10:02|| Front Page Top

#3 WATCH IT SPOT.......I WEAR A BERET!!!!
Posted by ARMYGUY 2007-02-15 10:50||   2007-02-15 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 'Good Moaning. Leesen verrry carefully, I weel zay zis only once...'.

Allo allo (british comedy show in 1980's),

the sign of a misspelt youth !

:)
Posted by MacNails 2007-02-15 11:00||   2007-02-15 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 What is your color ARMYGUY?

The United States Army Special Forces are generally known as "green berets" for the color of their headgear. Other United States Army units can also be distinguished by the color of their headgear, as follows:

* Jungle green — Special Forces
* Tan — 75th Ranger Regiment and Ranger Training Brigade
* Maroon — paratroopers (82nd Airborne Division and 173rd Airborne Brigade)
* Black — all other Army units

Berets were originally worn only by elite units of the U.S. Army. Hence, there was controversy when in 2001 the United States Army adopted the black beret, previously reserved for the Rangers, as standard headgear for all army units. [10] The Rangers are now distinguished by tan berets.

The wearing of berets in the United States Air Force is somewhat less common, but several career fields are authorized to wear berets of differing colors, as specified in the following list:

* Maroon — Pararescue
* Scarlet — Combat Controllers
* Pewter grey — Combat Weathermen
* Navy blue — Security Forces
* Pewter green — Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialists (SEREs)
* Black — Air Liaison Officers (ALOs), Air Mobility Liaison Officers (AMLOs), Tactical Air Control Parties (TACPs)
Posted by SwissTex 2007-02-15 11:15||   2007-02-15 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6 A beret certainly looks better than this.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-15 11:37||   2007-02-15 11:37|| Front Page Top

#7 I seem to recall that the Green Berets got their headgear from the First Special Services Force, a joint US/Canadian unit in WWII that trained like a special forces unit but (inexplicably) was used like an infantry division. The Canadians wore red berets; the unit took up the tradition. The new Army special forces units switched to green to differentiate from the Canadian red beret.

Am I misremembering this? Or am I remembering correctly and the books were wrong?
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2007-02-15 11:51|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-02-15 11:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Pewter grey — Combat Weathermen

There's a 70% chance you're gonna look funny.

BTW, why is someone her's afraid to show her hair teaching mentally disturbed children?
Posted by Shipman 2007-02-15 12:44||   2007-02-15 12:44|| Front Page Top

#9 She wears the French-style felt beret pulled down so her hair does not show

Only people who wear berets like that are country retards in comedies. You just don't pull it down. Anyway, no one wear berets in France today, bar a few trendy artsy types or rural folks who want to project a "rooted in tradition" image, and the army.
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-15 12:48||   2007-02-15 12:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Allo allo (british comedy show in 1980's),

Hey, I remember that, funny in a Benny Hill way, but chokeful of clichés on french people and WWII. The gay german officer was a killer, though.
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-15 12:50||   2007-02-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#11  There's a 70% chance you're gonna look funny.

LOL
Posted by mrp 2007-02-15 12:59||   2007-02-15 12:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Nothing personal ArmyGuy! I just thought it funny that she would exchange a religious symbol for a, er, foreign symbol in Germany, lol.
Posted by Spot">Spot  2007-02-15 13:03||   2007-02-15 13:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Her lawyer said Wednesday his client, 35, was not a religious extremist

Hello, she's Muslim.
Posted by Icerigger 2007-02-15 13:13||   2007-02-15 13:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Some Orthodox Jewish and Chassidic women wear the beret like that, but always with precisely 1" of hair showing at the forehead for some reason. They also believe that a woman's hair should be seen only by her husband and her family. It would be interesting if the woman were confused with an Orthodox Jew... But I suspect that nobody else wears any sort of headcovering in the school, and she's trying to work around the prohibition.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-15 13:39||   2007-02-15 13:39|| Front Page Top

#15 A compromise would be for her to shave her head.

Simple.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-02-15 14:38||   2007-02-15 14:38|| Front Page Top

#16 Naw, BR. Then, you have nekkid female skin showing. The muzzie mens couldn't stand that.
Posted by BA 2007-02-15 14:49||   2007-02-15 14:49|| Front Page Top

#17 who wears the pink Salmon beret?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-02-15 15:19||   2007-02-15 15:19|| Front Page Top

#18 I say let her wear a veil, or a hijab, or a niqab, or even a burqa if she wants. But if she decides to wear anything which WON'T cover her face then she has to agree to shave off her beard!

;-)
Posted by Sic_Semper_Tyrannus 2007-02-15 17:59||   2007-02-15 17:59|| Front Page Top

#19 I wear a red Fez. Or a Viking Helmet, depending on the weather.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2007-02-15 19:01||   2007-02-15 19:01|| Front Page Top

#20 Berets are popular wid many college-age, pan- Asian, young adult women, from Buddhists to Hindu, etc.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-15 22:38||   2007-02-15 22:38|| Front Page Top

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