Don’t answer that person. They’re just a racist/sexist who tries to justify everything under religion and calls anyone who disagrees “islamophobic.”

Of course we have a right to judge these communities for their ignorance and oppression are you fucking nuts?! We SHOULD be judging them so they CHANGE their fucking chauvinistic despicable rules. Religion is a choice people make and it should absolutely be judged just like any other choice, particularly when that…

I’n going to judge the bejeezus out of any religion or culture that treats women and men differently, particularly in a manner that places one gender at a distinct advantage.

This is my biggest problem with veils/burqas/hijab, etc. If it truly is a woman’s choice to dress head to toe in black in 100 degree weather, whatever. But the number of families I see where the dad is in a tank top, shorts and flip flips, the kids are dressed similarly, and mom is buried under 10 yards of heavy black…

“Islam is a rich, peaceful culture that respects women in its own way. It’s entirely possible to respect both Islamic laws and feminism at the same time.” As a closet ex-Muslim, I disagree with you. Islam does not respect women “in its own way” nor is it a peaceful religion. I hope you realize that Islam calls for the…

Maybe the wording is a little problematic, but it is hardly “Islamophobic”...

Last Friday Germany’s first liberal mosque opened. With the founder saying that they’re not taking the Qor’an literally because it was written so long ago.

It will be interesting to see the assimilation process in the decades to come, if they don’t decide to return to their homelands. Will succeeding generations of women of Middle Eastern/Muslim background wear the hijab less frequently, as past immigrant groups have done with veils, headcoverings and wigs? Will American…

The uproar over this feels so much like a double standard. It’s ok to turn down a hug. Can you imagine if an unknown man approached a starlet on the red carpet and repeatedly asked for a hug while the starlet repeatedly declined politely? We’d be talking about a man’s assumption that he can touch whomever he wants.

Absolutely agree regarding the hugging automatically. We are now knowledgeable enough to know that it makes enough people uncomfortable, and it also can be used by people to take that hug and make it an invitation for assault. Touching without invitation is not okay and she was in the wrong for attempting that more…

This is a dumb post. Guy didn’t want a hug from someone he didn’t know. If the genders were swapped, you wouldn’t give his actions a second thought. Your double standards are showing.

I love hugs but it’s important to know not everybody else does, so I go into the world assuming ‘dont hug anybody unless you know they are ok with it’

Maybe don’t go around hugging people you don’t know. And if She is such a fan she would know he is not the touchy-feely type. He literally had a whole of him not wanting to hug and kiss strangers

Exactly, he was perfectly polite. If anything I’d be squigged out being asked again for a hug after I said no the first time.

Honestly. If a 63 year-old man who Kesha didn’t know all of a sudden popped up and was like “huuugggg meeee” I don’t think she’d have been to receptive.

If you’re truly a fan of Seinfeld, you know not to hug him.

Yeah, she kinda does look like that person who would run up to you and is so exuberant that you THINK you must know her, but then she starts talking about how she wants to touch your hair because it gives off such a unique aura and that’s where 80 percent of humans generate their energy or some shit like that.

I said this already, ambush hugs are not cool.

I don’t think I’d want strangers running up and hugging me either. Maybe she was a fan that slipped through the ropes? Judging by the worried look on his face, he had no idea who this person was, nor what she was going on about. Imagine if this had been Michael Richards running up to hug Beyonce and she was like, “I…

I wish people would leave him alone on this. That wasn’t a situation where asking for a hug made sense, and it’s always okay for someone to turn down a hug even if it is one where hugs are normally given. It’s also fine that he doesn’t know who Kesha is. They’re not even in similar fields of entertainment.