@RemovedUsername1005333 Then why do you have to comment on this post?

@RemovedUsername1005333 I asked a question, indeed. But the question is asking about a specific topic which you say you don't care to answer it. Then why do you need to let me know you don't care about the question?

If you don't care about the question, then you don't have to let people know you don't care about it. Just ignore it. Because if you don't care but you announce to people to know that you don't care, that means you care.

@BoobooSnafu We are tying to consume more information than is humanly possible

I heard a fascinating issue of Hidden Brain recently. Explains a lot:

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767186846/screaming-into-the-void-how-outrage-is-hijacking-our-culture-and-our-minds

@JoeyFoxx well the thing of the next gen is not so much retaining the information... But sourcing it.
We dont need to retain facts as much as we used to, because we have a world encyclopaedia at our fingertips.

It's jist - people DONT FLIPPING USE IT FOR GAINING UNDERSTANDING!!!!

It's all about the meme!
😊🙄

@BoobooSnafu Some people do...

We just need more of that...

@Peacefulpanda great!
So how about we all do it?!?!

Let's hide our humanity!

Let's create more distrust!!

Flipping wonderful! 🙄

@SW-User You know that Indians are Hindus and NOT Muslims right? BIG difference.

@room101 wow. Thanks. Didn’t know.

@SW-User Clearly🤦‍♂️

@Longpatrol unfair ANY woman should HAVE TO wear ANY of these.... It's so wrong... 🙄

@Success Some argue that public safety shouldn’t come at the expense of our fundamental freedoms.

@SimplyTracie I'd argue that one's life and safety is the foremost human right.

@Success That’s a good argument. I would hate to see my freedom of religion taken from me.

@SW-User Your current President and his supporters do not seem to agree with you on what the USA represents.

I've looked at your profile and, judging by your photos, you are clearly of Oriental decent (I would guess Korean). Consequently, I can see how my narrow use of the phrase "western women" could have made you feel excluded and caused you some offence. That was not my intent and I wholeheartedly apologise for that silly oversight on my part.

I'm a photojournalist. I concentrated on the Middle East. So, yeah, spending a lot of time, asking questions, trying to understand how local people felt and perceived everything about their lives and, what went on their countries was a fact of life for me.

In approx three to four weeks, I will be embarking on a year long project where I will be touring most of Europe, North Africa and the Near Middle East. The purpose of this project is to report on social issues as I find them and how history has impacted on these social issues.

@room101 He is never my president. Never. In fact, no one is my president. In order to approve someone to become my "something", they have to be very important to me.

Many people thought I'm Korean or Japanese or Chinese or Thai. But I'm Vietnamese. Asian ethnicity misunderstanding is a very common thing for us Asians.

Yes, I was pretty offended by that. But I don't pay attention to that anymore. It's alright.

That's really impressive! You know, I like to read stories by looking at pictures instead of words. Pictures give me a clearer view of things that happen around me. And sometimes give me a realization of the world that I live in. To visit so many countries like that need a pretty much amount of money. You are a photojournalist, but is it a hobby or a full-time job?

@SW-User It was my full-time job until 2008. I had to give it up for a while (due to family stuff) and was a commercial photographer instead. That drove me nuts and I actually gave up photography completely for a short while. In the last eighteen months or so, I’ve been balancing commercial photography with photojournalism.

Yes, money is a big issue because the vast majority of my reportage projects have been self-financed. Over the years, it’s worked out fine and I’ve generally come out on top. This particular project is a very much a leap of faith. I will either generate interest and earn an income or, I will blow a lot of money on an adventure.🤷‍♂️

There's a story (it's a bit long) on my profile which basically explains how I'm financing the trip.

@JoeyFoxx @QuixoticSoul In essence, you are both asking the same questions ie how do we decide that we will accept this religious behaviour and/or garb but not that? Where do we draw the line?

For me, it's very simple. I ask myself what goes with those practices, what are they in their entirety? Are women barred from going out in public unchaperoned? Are women (even in a medical capacity) barred from touching men who are not in their immediate family? Are women banned from carrying out simple activities that we all take for granted? Activities such as driving for example. Are women treated subserviently by law and punished more harshly by law? And so on and so forth.

Bottom line guys, the wearing of the hijab etc is, for me, a physical representation of what I simply cannot abide.

Should I come across another religion, cult, society or whatever that behaves the same way towards its women, I would feel exactly the same way.

@room101 the chaperone part exists pretty much only in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran and it isn’t universally enforced.

It can’t be enforced in the Western world as was already explained above.

Based on your logic then, if those laws are followed, there is zero need to have a law based on religious fashion.

@JoeyFoxx The chaperone part (and all of the other restrictions imposed on Muslim women) exists everywhere where a fundamentalist approach to Islam exists. It is not confined to a given nation. For example; Taliban controlled areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Daesh controlled areas in Syria and Iraq; Boko Haram controlled areas in various parts of West Africa; Islamic communities throughout Europe; Islamic communities throughout Indonesia........the list goes on and on.

And yes, these restrictions imposed on women are enforced. Regardless of what local laws say. They are enforced by families and by communities as a whole.

Regarding your last sentence, I'm afraid I don't understand. What's "my logic"? Where does "need" come into it? How can one give a numerical value to this supposed need?

Sorry, you "need" to elaborate.