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Keywords: Burqa

ARTS AND CULTURE

To Kill A Mockingbird and asylum seeker justice
- Kerry Murphy
- 09 July 2010
11 Comments
Atticus works within the system and hopes thereby to reform it. He wonders 'why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro come up'. Many lawyers will understand the challenge of working for the unpopular 'other': just replace 'Negro' with asylum seeker, or Muslim women in burqas.
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RELIGION

A Christian view of budgets and burqas
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 May 2010
15 Comments
This week's headlines have been about elections in the UK, the economy in Greece, and justice and law in Australia regarding banning the burqa and monstering asylum seekers. The way these are played out leaves little room for love, altruism, forgiveness, restoration, reconciliation and freedom, and no space for grace.
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AUSTRALIA

Politicising women's bodies
- Catherine Marshall
- 06 May 2010
36 Comments
What's the difference between wanting a thin wife and wanting an invisible wife? Which is more democratic: the western tendency to idealise the porn-star aesthetic, or the old-fashioned imperative for modesty and virtue? When the chips are down, is raunch culture really more dignifying than discretion?
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AUSTRALIA

Women unheard in the din about burqas
- Ruby J. Murray
- 11 March 2010
11 Comments
The strident debate over Islamic dress is again barreling through western democracies. If attempting to combat discrimination and violence against women really is at the bottom of the debate, then why not focus on domestic violence with the same hysteria?
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INTERNATIONAL

The nun and the burqa
- Bronwyn Lay
- 02 December 2008
20 Comments
When Germaine Greer savaged Michelle Obama's dress, I sighed. The 'beauty' market is a challenge to feminism. In France, two extremes of fashion ideology — burqas and plastic-surgery 'mannequins' — line up to buy bread.
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