Thank you.

Good thing I did check back to reply to an older message so I can see yours.

You know Jezebel? I know your byline is about celebrity gossip and all that. But there was a time you could actually be taken seriously and had a focus on pop culture and feminism. I know, I know - no complaining since your readership has gone through a huge change due to your make-over (which leaves none of the…

Thanks for your input, it seems that you have a lot of first hand experience in that field. Would you mind elaborating more on that? Specifically the part I copied at the bottom of my post. So you are saying that there are certain sets of behaviors of Western employees in international NGOs that don't particularly…

Lol.

I'm sorry,

Your comprehension skills are not that great, are they?

I think there are plenty of ways of solving the problem but that would require putting money in communities so it won't happen and it would mean having to deal with the problem instead of ignoring it.

Protestant women preach in churches as well. They are not supposed to originally but that happens when you reform misogynist systems.

I think the situation of Muslims in Europe is not as easily explained. It's not just the bad Western world that causes the problem.

Yeah, I phrased that wrongly. I shouldn't have said white but non-Muslim/Western. Basically, I'm wondering whether - as we assume - these rules are seen as religious rules. Meaning that a woman has to signal "I am a religious Muslim woman and I voluntarily obey to these beliefs" and otherwise women don't have to…

It must vary. Usually, "foreign" women are excempted from being policed I assume, but that changes if you live there and the structural organization of the neighborhood.

Yes. But it is not considered true to scripture.

I don't think you would see any Burkas since those are Afghani, non?

It varies greatly reflecting cultural differences. You'll see Somali women wear colorful scarves, you'll see Turkish immigrant girls piling up their hair, adding fake hair, under their scarve wearing skin tight leopard printed clothes, you'll see Iranian women with full make-up and a lose scarf - however, these…

My friend was in Marseille, France.

They are presenting different cultural variations of Islam. However, if you actually follow the scripture they are not allowed to do that and there is lots of criticism of orthodox Muslims when it comes to different types of "veil fashion" that causes people to pay attention. The idea is to become visibly invisible.

I've recently watched this and the moment at 04:40 where they ask them whether they are Afghan women or not was interesting to me.

Of course it is. The endless threads I have read about it on forums have been very amusing.

Would it have been seen as disrespectful had you not worn a hijab?