Turkey: cometh the hour ...

Cometh the men in headscarfs!
They get an 'A' for effort, but it's sad that men have to resort to this to protest against creeping Islamisation. If Marcia Hines was asked for a comment, I think it would be:

"You go, girl!"
A Turk with a head scarf joins tens of thousands of Turks demonstrating in the capital, Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008 to protest against the Islamic-rooted government as the parliament voted to amend the constitution to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at Turkey's universities, despite fierce opposition from the secular establishment.

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Not to be outdone in humility, the scarf girls don't see the irony that putting a paper bag on your head is not much different from the burqa - which is brought one step closer with the 'liberty' you seek ...


Women with Islamic head scarves, with one of them wearing a paper bag to shroud her features, protest against a ban on the wearing scarves in Turkish universities in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008. Some 125,000 flag-waving Turks denounced the Islamic-rooted government over its plan to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities, a move the foreign minister said would expand Turkish freedoms.














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