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  • BriberyLibrary, on 11/02/2007, -21/+923I can tell it's a nude beach because i can see half an inch of her forearm.
    • nixonrichard, on 10/10/2007, -21/+578NSFW
      • borninda818, on 10/10/2007, -52/+8Don't joke like that dude...you got me all excited for nothing. Now what am I going to do?
        • Fracture98, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21Leave your blow-up doll in the bag when you blow her up?
      • Niz1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1damn >< i actually lol
    • z00k, on 10/10/2007, -58/+7I can tell it's a nude beach because of this:
      InterScan for CSC SSM Security Event
      Access to this URL is currently restricted because of its classification.

      URL: www.kuvaton.com/kuvei/uimassa_vaimon_kanssa.jpg
      Content classification: Company Prohibited Sites
    • HalFTW, on 10/20/2007, -14/+54Mirror: http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/2296/uimassavaimonkanssamb3.jpg

      It is SFW.
      • tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -3/+151Unless you work in Saudi Arabia.
        • bsolidgold, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The whole country of Saudi Arabia is monitored/filtered by Blue Coat Proxy SG's.
      • MadEnvoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+70Did you pixelate the forearm?
    • HunterTV, on 10/10/2007, -5/+51Is that latex covering her arms? That's kinda hot. Sorta.
      Bah, I got nothin'.
    • Flare, on 10/10/2007, -57/+7In soviet Russia, the wife swims you!
      • ikickass, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10haha oh wow. failing at using memes. stop trying. you failed down there too
    • sophiaperennis, on 10/10/2007, -15/+8That piece of naked arm is obviously photoshop-ed. Ha!
    • MilitantRabbit, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4Wocka wocka.
    • jimreimer, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0I don't like her birthday suit. Yuck!
  • eltrev, on 10/10/2007, -72/+11They are totally bangin' under water ... duh, it's obvious.
  • roastedbagel, on 10/10/2007, -29/+574We giggle about the situation...yet wholistically it's actually pretty sad...
    • DukeMojo, on 10/10/2007, -65/+9Well let's just take another step. How do you think nudists feel about us and wearing clothes at all?
      • xike, on 10/10/2007, -6/+68Right. Forget the fact that the reason that woman is dressed like that is she would be stoned to death if she wasn't.
        • Bhima, on 10/10/2007, -26/+5Like you wouldn't be arrested for being nude?
          • DooM, on 10/10/2007, -3/+63Yeah, arrested and stoned are pretty much equivalent penalties. Thanks.
      • Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -42/+65The woman there only show themselves to their husbands. We all know that and yes, it sounds awkward and maybe even sad. But look at our society now: younger and younger girls are wearing clothes that barely cover their personal parts. Women have to look better and better (i.e. more sexy for men) in fear of losing the battle of beauty.

        I kind of envy those people in the pic. They know they have someone special who means the whole world to them, and only reveal themselves to the specific person. It must be a very nice and sexually tense feeling.

        You have to look at the flipside. We westerns are so full of nudity that even sex barely means anything to us. No wonder so many people seek strong emotions elsewhere (drugs or a life full of daring and exciting stunts, for example)
        • rabuksak, on 10/10/2007, -19/+7i wish i could digg you up multiple times for that comment, scynet. kudos.
        • svartgotik, on 10/10/2007, -35/+14You obviously haven't lost your cherry yet, have you?
        • BigManOnCampus, on 10/10/2007, -14/+32Speaking as someone who's been a nudist, your comment is about as awkward and bizarre as a comment could be. people compete in the beauty department precisely because culture imposes clothes upon us. When everyone's naked, everyone realizes that everyone has faults, noone has a perfect body. You quickly give up trying to look better for looks sake.

          "they know they have someone special" ?? omg, I cannot begin to tally how silly that sounds. nudity isn't special, it doesn't mean anything. If you are basing a part of an emotional connection to someone on a physical thing, then you're being just as bad as the stereotypical male who goes down to a bar to pick up chicks to fill an emotional hole in his life. You're effectively saying, "Yes, the physical part of our relationship is like a gift, a currency."

          Our lack of shame in displaying our physical bodies is precisely what makes us more enlightened. Shame is a restrictive emotion that supresses freedom much like fear does. You wouldn't look back at Roman society and call them primitive and perverted just because it was normal for people to go to public baths and bathe nude. Likewise it is absurd to say that America is somehow less evolved than the middle east because they display their skin.
          • skulljar, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4People will compete in the beauty department, clothes or not. Some people will choose to "let themselves go," reguardless. Sorry, I don't need to see your crotch to know that you're a fat slob- a bathing suit reveals quite enough. Anyone who's not a culture zombie knows that everyone has faults. If clothes were illegal, people would be more inclined to exercise. Nudists have no moral highground.

            Nudity doesn't mean anything to you? It's silly to think that someone would equate emotional attachment to physical endowment? How many one legged burn victims have you dated lately? Sorry, thinking that someone who admires a persons body does not equate to pigs at bars. Further, what's wrong with a guy who wants to meet girls because he is bored or lonely- even if it IS at a bar? Again, you're "speaking as a nudist" but not proving any moral superiority.

            I agree about shame and fear. Romans weren't allowed to look upon eachother's nudity in the beginning. Then as times changed, they were having sex in the baths by the end.
          • skulljar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3People will compete in the beauty department, clothes or not. Some people will choose to "let themselves go," reguardless. Sorry, I don't need to see your crotch to know that you're a fat slob- a bathing suit reveals quite enough. Anyone who's not a culture zombie knows that everyone has faults. If clothes were illegal, people would be more inclined to exercise. Nudists have no moral highground.

            Nudity doesn't mean anything to you? It's silly to think that someone would equate emotional attachment to physical endowment? How many one legged burn victims have you dated lately? Sorry, thinking that someone who admires a persons body does not equate to pigs at bars. Further, what's wrong with a guy who wants to meet girls because he is bored or lonely- even if it IS at a bar? Again, you're "speaking as a nudist" but not proving any moral superiority.

            I agree about shame and fear. Romans weren't allowed to look upon eachother's nudity in the beginning. Then as times changed, they were having sex in the baths by the end.
          • MrSunshine, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2"everyone realizes that everyone has faults, noone has a perfect body"

            I don't know what places you visited, but even if I go to my local swimming pool I see a lot of people with nearly perfect bodies above average. So strike that "no-one has" and replace it with "many don't have".
          • BigManOnCampus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Nudists have no moral highground.

            Nudity doesn't mean anything to you? It's silly to think that someone would equate emotional attachment to physical endowment? How many one legged burn victims have you dated lately? Sorry, thinking that someone who admires a persons body does not equate to pigs at bars. Further, what's wrong with a guy who wants to meet girls because he is bored or lonely- even if it IS at a bar? Again, you're "speaking as a nudist" but not proving any moral superiority."

            You've altered what I said sufficiently that it doesn't even have the same meaning.

            "I see a lot of people with nearly perfect bodies above average"

            And I'm telling you, taking off those last couple bits of clothing equalize them.
          • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1MrSunshine, you're missing the point: Most nudists are ugly (read: average).
        • Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -10/+5BigMan:

          Reply to 1st paragraph:

          Yeah, everyone has faults, but some have a lot more than others, and clothing is the thing that makes people more equal in beaty. We don't really consider clothes as a factor in our search for a companion, like we do with bodies (unfortunate maybe, but that's a basic instinct created mostly by evolution).

          Reply to 2nd paragraph:

          Nudity means people can compare each other's bodies, and the result is pretty obvious. I too wish we weren't so concerned about bodies, but just look on the wall of any teen, you'll see posters of good-looking idols, not repulsive people. Bodies matter.

          Reply 3rd paragraph:

          I agree, but again, that's not how things work in reality with 99% of people. And that's why I consider those similiar full-body clothings so good: they equalize the people, and encourage folks to look for other traits than beauty in others. They're not constantly seeing something better walk by. As far as I understood that kind of situation was what you were looking too, but with nudity. But as long as you can remove our instincts and urges, it's not gonna happen.
          • allywilson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Hold on... 'And that's why I consider those similiar full-body clothings so good: they equalize the people' - pardon? The only situation in-which that would be equal is if both genders did it, young / old / infant / dead.

            Instincts and urges? That's what makes you a human being!
          • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1@allywilson

            In theory it would equalize the playing field for attractive/unattractive women... Unfortunately, they would have to be able to talk to men for this to work...

            There is a difference between complete social equality and equality in a competition, if you aren't a complete moron, it should be obvious which he meant.
        • MephistoX, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I'd agree with your topic entirely, except that if that woman went in any other clothing, she'd be imprisoned or killed, or something.
          I think your comment would be more appropriate if that wasn't true. Nevertheless, you still have a point there
          • allywilson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12To be fair - who's to say she's not in the pacific not 20ft from a California beach?
        • BigManOnCampus, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10"clothing is the thing that makes people more equal in beaty."

          Wrong. Take your clothes off at a clothing optional beach sometime and you'll realize this just is not true.

          "Nudity means people can compare each other's bodies, and the result is pretty obvious. I too wish we weren't so concerned about bodies, but just look on the wall of any teen, you'll see posters of good-looking idols, not repulsive people. Bodies matter."

          Wrong again. When you're naked in front of other people, the thing you see is that most of the things you hate about your own body, everyone else has to deal with as well.

          "I agree, but again, that's not how things work in reality with 99% of people. And that's why I consider those similiar full-body clothings so good: they equalize the people, and encourage folks to look for other traits than beauty in others. They're not constantly seeing something better walk by. As far as I understood that kind of situation was what you were looking too, but with nudity. But as long as you can remove our instincts and urges, it's not gonna happen."

          Incorrect entirely. I doubt you really internalized what I wrote at all. imposed clothing means you cannot expose your true self, it tells you to be ashamed of your body because culture would frown upon you if you were exposed. When this is taken to extremes as it is in the M.E. it means that if something like a part of your leg is accidentally exposed, you are subjected to humiliation. That is not freedom, that is a culture controlled by fear.
        • NozE8, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Great insight BigMan. I couldnt agree more.
    • MrMidi, on 10/10/2007, -67/+50Actually, the women choose to wear clothing like this (and not because they will be killed otherwise, though in the US that is what we hear). Please know about a religion before saying that it is sad. What might not be considered normal to us is perfectly normal to others.
      • kunalthakar, on 10/10/2007, -24/+35Why do you think they 'choose' to wear it? Ever heard of brainwashing?
        • afx1, on 10/10/2007, -8/+26no
        • mithrasinvictus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+46To be able to choose something you have to have a choice first.

          And "wear it or be outcast/stoned" is not a choice BTW.
        • bitspace, on 10/10/2007, -19/+6Because surely if they have a different outlook than you, they must be brainwashed.
          • GliTCH82, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7What if that outlook in itself is a result of brainwashing by the type of society they live in? If they could personally choose how to dress, would they grow to like what they are wearing?

            In other Muslim countries where veil isn't mandated by the state, many woman choose not to wear the veil and they like their choice.
        • mickhead, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Would you kindly wear the Burqa.
        • richmessenger, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1That's right everyone who participates in their religion and culture are brainwashed. I bet you do a lot of things that make them think that way about you
        • MrTankJump, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Ever hear of all religion EVER?
        • darienphoenix, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5If you regard muslims as 'brainwashed', you need to take a good hard look at right-wing American Christians, and realise they have exactly the same problem. Some people still think it's 'dirty' to have sex in any position other than missionary.
          • RedNeckerson, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Everyone is "brainwashed" to some degree. It's easy to point at groups you dislike and throw out that accusation. It's harder to look at yourself and do it.
            But you should.
          • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm pretty sure most diggers would agree that these Christians are just as brainwashed, yes... What's your point?
        • blackjack75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Oh I do think it's dirty. Otherwise why would we do it?
      • kunalthakar, on 10/10/2007, -27/+6Why do you think they 'choose' to wear it? Ever heard of brainwashing?
      • Teej, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19what a funny comment to have double posted...
        • mashw, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8Cultural relativism only to a point, this is just ridiculous.
          • bjornski, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4So is the "cannibalism" espoused by Christians.
          • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Silly you, there is no objective morality... Now, how about we go for a nice honor killing to make up?
        • teh_techie, on 10/10/2007, -11/+3what a funny comment to have double posted...

          (yep.. I was trying to brainwash you diggers into thinking it was funny to see that comment double posted...)
      • Imus, on 10/10/2007, -4/+31Choose to dress like this? Sure, some Muslim women love to wear this crap. The others get KILLED when they don't.

        Choose? I choose to punch you in the face.
      • foomandoonian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19They may indeed choose to, but it is also true that in Afghanistan many women wear concealing clothing for fear of their lives, and many more 'moderate' eastern countries have a religious police force, and many women have been killed by their own family members for 'insufficient morality'.

        The point is, women don't always have the choice, and that's wrong. Plus, these countries are hot as hell!
      • andyeddy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttawa

        educate yourself dick-head.
      • anewname, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5They won't be killed. They'll just get acid in the face, or brutal beatings.
      • ghettodev, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Why don't you leave the room and let MrsMidi tell us how she feels.
    • Aldrenean, on 10/10/2007, -10/+155... wholistically?
    • robotplague, on 10/10/2007, -14/+35It's all subjective. I frequently get disgusted at the women here and would wish they would cover up.
      • Pake, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Wrapped up in a hotdog bun with all the toppings, right?
      • bitspace, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17Yes, mostly the fat ugly ones that think they're hawt. Please cover that ***** up! The nubile hardbodies, on the other hand (because the other hand makes it feel like it's somebody else)...
      • kuujjuaqguy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1thats cause your gay
    • natchiketa, on 10/10/2007, -24/+10Oh, and a thong's not sad? Why don't you get off your pedestal and realize that there's more than one way to live as a human being in this world? Also, why don't you look up the correct spelling of 'holistic' while you're at it, and the definition (maybe you'll use it in the correct context some day).
      • mithrasinvictus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Only on some people.
        And there's not 1 beach where thongs are mandatory. Pics or its *****.
        • thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Well.....try a nudist beach. You can't wear clothes there. That's why it's a nudist beach. Rules are rules. You wear clothes, you get treated as a voyeur...not that I would know.....just I heard off someone....
          • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Erm, have you ever actually been anywhere near anyone who has ever been to a nude beach?... You CAN wear clothes there, there are no rules against it, it's about what people are comfortable with. People might treat you like a voyer at some, but that's their call, and as far as I know, most don't.
    • thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12it's "holistically" - though I think you're actually looking for another word.
      • ChefAnubis, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2"wholistically", IT´S a valid spelling, get yourself educated before trying to correct people.
    • HypocriteDigg, on 10/10/2007, -22/+7What's sad is that most 'Americans' think that if you aren't a white, meat eating, christian, dirt-bike riding, gun shooting, redneck, then it's 'sad' to them. Dumb ***** hillbillies.
      • Rkocour, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8No what is sad, is that you can't open your own cultural ideas to that of another people because all you see is the stereotypes. I'm American, i am white if you mean that my mixture of ancestory just happens to produce a melenoma affect of my skin of being peach colored. I also like meat, am catholic, like mountain-biking, believe in the right to bear arms, and truthfully i try to relate to other cultures. not by comparing them to mine, as you just compared yours to mine, but by not being ethnocentric and by just viewing the culture as it is through their eyes. Its called taking a sociology class, trying to be more open minded, and not such a pretentious prick. Have a nice day.
      • ScrumFritter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11There's a line between respecting another culture and a ***** backwards belief. Women aren't mens' property, and they shouldn't be treated as such, and they shouldn't be TAUGHT from BIRTH that they are. It's absolutely ridiculous that in the modern world people are still indoctrinating their children with horrendous beliefs that encroach on (well, completely take away) their personal freedoms. She may 'choose' to dress that way at 20 because she was raised to believe (read: forced to believe, under penalty of stoning) that it's right, good point. But then... that's not really a 'choice', is it? It's actually a very long term way of making someones choices for them, isn't it, forcing your ethics on them from birth?

        And what's worse is that we make excuses for these people! We say "Oh it's just tradition" or "It's part of their religion/culture!" like that somehow makes it magically right! In this day and age, unbelievable.

        And before someone replies with "And who are YOU to judge people?" - I'm the guy that doesn't stone people for how they dress.
      • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Note, most American diggers aren't Christian under any stretch of the word, and a large chunk of them aren't white... So, what the ***** are you talking about?...

        PS: Being a hillbilly wrong, stoning someone if they were to not wear 15 kg of clothing when they swim, fine?..
    • 68024, on 10/10/2007, -19/+4I don't see anything sad about this picture. I only see something sad in your close-minded comment.
    • mjj04, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2It still was mad funny
    • r1y23, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Actually the entire reason the women cover up is because in Islam it is believed that women should only share their true beauty with their husbands in private. Many women have no problem with it. It is unfortunate though that governments force women who do not want to follow that part of Islam
      • barakatx2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Only covering hair is required, they don't have to wear the veils, its not in the Qur'an or anything.
      • WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Anyone can call it beauty, like repeating a slogan...but I guarantee you, anyone who walks around completely covered, and in black, no less, in the hot desert sun....would have a serious body-odor problem...unless bacteria behaves differently in middle eastern countries.
        Misogyny by any other name is still just pathetic misogyny.
        And it is not at all different from the rampant sexism and misogyny found in the 'bible', followed by judaeo-christian religions of the west.
        Once again, religions are used primarily as a way of maintaining control over the masses, by spreading and sustaining every kind of ignorance and fear and 'belief' in place of rational, discriminative thought.
      • vvaduva, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Islam doesn't require women to cover every part of their body...only their head/hair. The extremists who kill their women for not covering their entire bodies are literalizing the Koran, just as fundamentalist Christians are doing to the Bible They force their women to do that but they don't have a problem wearing short sleeve shirts and short pants.
  • ani625, on 10/10/2007, -8/+175oh..are the other husbands jealous..
    • stickyfeet17, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16What the hell was she doing out of the kitchen?!?!?
    • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Honestly, it is kind of romantic...
  • NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -42/+20That's tragic.

    -jcr
  • pmagayon, on 11/07/2007, -4/+345At least she won't have to worry about sunburns.
    • Sexual, on 10/10/2007, -5/+107Just a bit of heatstroke.
      • teh_techie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20not if she's in the water... it'll keep her cooled off
        • anonym41414, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26Yeah, then all she needs to worry about is drowning.
    • wijaya7, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7shes wearing black, that absorbs more light.. its hot in there
      • KingGorilla, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3the water is cold
      • Bilabrin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Water has good insulating properties. I read about a new window with a layer of water. Somewhere...
        • Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2yes, but moving water absorbs body heat and carries it away, like sweat, a LOT of sweat
  • monkeys, on 10/10/2007, -19/+30Saves on laundry.
  • stevene, on 10/10/2007, -49/+400Digg needs a picture section.
    • badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -8/+164THEY KNOW.
    • tybris, on 10/10/2007, -34/+4Little chance now that the video section is gone. Apparently they don't like sections.
      • gfunk84, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23Video section is still there....
        All | News | Videos | Podcasts
      • rune420, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16What!? The video section isn't gone.
    • Flare, on 10/10/2007, -7/+22The new commenting system sucks!
    • supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4They know, they are adding it in the next revision!
    • blacknred0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0yeah, i think that they should improve it for the next upgrade
    • ultrafez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1digpicz.com - Digg clone that deals specifically with pictures
  • zackintosh, on 11/07/2007, -13/+239Ninja please
  • xOKxWhy, on 10/10/2007, -35/+13Ah, pedophilia is so disgusting. What? Oh, wrong man and wife
    • Scarfy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22Does that even make sense?
      • quisph, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10I think he was referring to the dad & daughter in the background.
  • tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -15/+51That's freaking scary! Looks like something out of the Middle Eastern "Scream" movies.
  • omnirusa, on 10/10/2007, -5/+38http://www.kuvaton.com.nyud.net:8090/kuvei/uimassa_vaimon_kanssa.jpg
    http://www.kuvaton.com.nyud.net:8080/kuvei/uimassa_vaimon_kanssa.jpg
    both mirriors took abit to load for me, but they work
  • arcooke, on 10/10/2007, -23/+5artichoke
  • KungFuJesus, on 10/10/2007, -20/+1mirror?
  • Tetraca, on 10/10/2007, -21/+10America! What a country! You can buy freedom off store shelves!
    • JackSrenton, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7uh..what?
      • neutrascrub, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Tetraca posted it because in the description it says "What a country!" which is from yakov smirnoff's comedy routen. As is what he posted.
  • meir, on 10/10/2007, -10/+85Thats ***** up
    • SRSco, on 10/10/2007, -15/+1At least he looks like he kind of likes her.
  • Uranium118, on 10/10/2007, -8/+90NINJA
  • speezer, on 10/10/2007, -23/+16They cover up to hide their beards.
  • omnirusa, on 10/10/2007, -6/+51Its nothing that abnormal for muslim woman actually, although its normally not THAT bad.
    Here are just 3 other simple examples

    http://religiousfreaks.com/UserFiles/Image/hijab.swimming.jpg
    http://beforeithappens.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/273916.jpg
    http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/788283/2/istockphoto_788283_muslim_woman_swimming_pool.jpg
    • teh_techie, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Kinky...
    • yaiir, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1Thats what most muslim women wear on the beach. Theyre specially designed clothes for swimming. Either that, or they just dont bother. Swimming in the sea stops being so exciting after you turn 15
    • JackSrenton, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7I like how the second picture is all stylized. I want to see an "im with stupid" one next.
    • amoeba, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I think, that second pic is actually some modelled samples of swimsuits made for muslims.
    • mediaphile, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I think I've seen those somewhere before. Oh yeah, from a century ago: http://www.fashion-era.com/images/Edwds1890-1915/beauties.jpg
    • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The first one is pretty hot....
  • Victorioso, on 10/10/2007, -5/+62He's holding her up, otherwise she would sink to the bottom with all that on.
  • Extracheese, on 10/10/2007, -5/+285She looks like Cobra commander....
  • otep, on 10/10/2007, -40/+134Makes me proud to be American. And not religious.

    ...
    • Victorioso, on 10/10/2007, -14/+3Ditto.
    • smek2, on 10/10/2007, -23/+23Do you even know what your fingers type?
      • h3llscaper, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11The truth?
      • Jpesci, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Smek2, you must be one of those people who pardons any type of behavior behind the safe guise of "tradition" and religious belief. I don't care what a community's traditions or beliefs are, that doesn't mean logic and well-being should be thrown out the window. These misogynistic customs are backward thinking *****, period. As technology and understanding evolves you will see less of it.
        • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You got all that from those couple words?... What?... I saw it as being against customs of being 'proud to be a [resident of country x]". That is, after all, a ridiculous custom which shouldn't be pardoned... Why the hell should anyone be proud of where they happened to be born and indoctrinated?
    • kaneh, on 10/10/2007, -22/+7That was a dumb and meaningless comment.
    • waynehoggett, on 10/10/2007, -8/+39Agreed. A religious world is an evil place.
    • thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2Jeez - people get proud over anything these days. It used to be that people actually did things to feel proud. Now it's what they don't do that makes them feel proud.
    • Rkocour, on 10/10/2007, -14/+1I got to say, that really is one of the most ignorant things i have read today. However, i'm going to let it slide. Why, maybe i'm just in a good mood, maybe i'm feeling forgiving, maybe i just hope you learn not to be so ignorant just because somebody makes a different choice than you. Or maybe its because i learnt all this from my church. who knows. Religions don't kill people, people kill people. Apparently though religion is the new scapegoat for hate. Whatever.
      • Jpesci, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It's not about a "different choice". It's backward, antiquated thinking. When a belief or custom infringes on the happiness, respect, and well-being of an individual against their own will, I throw the "tradition" guise out the window, because it's a cop-out to justifying ridiculous or harmful actions upon oneself. Of course it's normal to those within the culture, bu the aspect of normality is irrelevant.
      • userini, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6You're going to let it slide? Whew. For a second there, I thought that you would start explaining to us about how religion is good and it's the people who do bad things.
      • Bilabrin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What's the big deal??
        They're obviously christians being baptised!
      • rlee0001, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Well, I guess that argument applies equally well to religion as it does to assault rifles. ***** republican.
        • govsucks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, nothing teaches a socialist to keep his hand on his own property like a assault rifle does. I'm starting to think that force is the only thing a socialist will understand, they seem to think everything produced is theirs by simply existing. Who cares if you had to crawl into a dark hole to mine that coal, I was born so you own me! Socialists are funny, "we have a shared society" they proclaim, meanwhile, they hold some people more accountable than most others...the socialist definition of shared is, you acutally do and create, we complain.
      • DavidGX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You'll "let it slide" will you? I don't think you're in any position to LET anything slide, asshole. Buried.
    • ElectricDoodie, on 10/10/2007, -10/+10You're proud to be an American? Haven't accomplished much in your life than, have you?
    • skyfire1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10I'm proud to be a atheist.
      • HigherLogic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12An atheist. An atheist. An atheist.
  • Nerys, on 10/10/2007, -15/+3I assume her arm is just wet? looks like plastic?
  • methodangel, on 10/10/2007, -10/+5Mirror: http://www.filehurricane.com/media/301
  • sportscheck, on 10/10/2007, -8/+107It's a DUDE inside.
    • lex0429, on 10/10/2007, -7/+6not just any dude, its Larry Craig
    • directedition, on 10/10/2007, -1/+37I totally have a great idea on how to sneak into the women's locker room in Saudi Arabia.
      • hansenite44, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13and see what?
      • orph3us, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6and when they catch you, you'll be executed?
      • orph3us, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1and when they catch you, you'll be executed? pardon me if this is untrue :P
      • Scottamus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, they'd probably execute all the undressed women you saw since they are obviously immoral. Sad but frighteningly not far from the truth.
    • stackered, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2tranny suprise!
    • cinder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10It's a trap.
    • bobdobolena, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4No, it's a Ninja.
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  • agann, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2Mirror:

    http://www.linkinn.com/_Today_I_went_swimming_with_my_wife_PIC
  • drpaidout, on 10/10/2007, -3/+74I was in dubai a month or two ago and noticed the same situation - except the jedi knight was splashing water with another chick in a bikini. Bizarre..
  • uaioe, on 10/10/2007, -8/+97The race to register "wetburka.com" is on!

  • smek2, on 10/10/2007, -69/+64You find that funny? Sure, it must be, after all, those people look funny, different from us and they speak that strange alien language. Let's make fun of them, just for entertainment. I'm sorry, but the opposite idiocity is blonde coloured bimbos with solid silicon knockers. Or 18 years old gitls selling themselfes for pornography. That ***** is equally, if not more, crazy.
    • garyeterry, on 10/10/2007, -29/+14Shut up..
    • Nowheredan, on 10/10/2007, -14/+93So wait a second... just to be clear here, you're equating a society that allows but does not force consenting adults to sell photographs of themselves without clothing to one that beats, mutilates, or outright murders women for wearing a short-sleeve shirt? Are you seriously making that comparison?
      • AladinSane, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2No asshole. He's saying that reducing women to objects is bad no matter HOW you're doing it. But given that this is Digg, and the average I.Q. is about 12, I'm not surprised that you didn't get it.
        • JoshChan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5the key is one nation is free and the other is oppressive. Surely you won't stone the girls to death who sell their bodies in this nation.
        • Nowheredan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, fool, he's saying that a society that allows women to sell pictures of themselves in a pornographic context without punishment is equally or more crazy than one that forces them to cover themselves under penalty of violence. Read, then write.
      • Garbagio, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Actually, You are the one making the comparison of death and torture based on your own assumptions of another society which I'm guessing you have merely heard of rather than experienced. What Smek is talking about is the picture and jokingly refering to the sensationalized observations of brutally uninformed people. In this picture, I see 7 people, of which there are 5 smiling faces and another face covered. There is nothing about laughing at mutilation, beating or murder within this context.
        • Nowheredan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, what he's saying (in addition to the "don't laugh at them because they're different" bit) is that when radical Islamist countries force women to cover every part of their bodies or else have the crap beaten out of them, it's no worse than when we allow 18 year old consenting adults to participate in pornography. That is, indisputably, what he said. And that is, indisputably, ***** insane.

          And you're right, I have never been a Muslim women living in a middle eastern country, but yes, I have read about it from a variety of sources, and yes, it does happen. Not all the time, but far more often than it should (which is never). And guess what: it's better over here. I'm not saying that because I think America's the end-all-be-all paradise on Earth, I'm saying it because we don't let people ***** beat their wives without consequence, and when someone does get away with it it's considered a gross miscarriage of justice.
      • Garbagio, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0And the mystical double post with no delete button strikes again. The digg gods have been unkind.
    • triplelindy, on 10/10/2007, -24/+15American women you describe are sad and pathetic but not nearly as crazy as someone who dresses in a sheet to please a mythical creature who resides in a kingdom in the clouds.
    • seajayf, on 10/10/2007, -18/+9Breathe. Reach up. Grab hold of your pantie. pull them out of your ass. Get a life
    • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -17/+8Shut up, you fool. I'm sure you think you're taking the high road here, but all you're doing is overreacting and making yourself look stupid.
    • khellendros1984, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27Silicon? Not....silicone? Shoot, those chicks you'ze talkin' 'bout gots 'letronic boobies!
      • artman4life, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Bravo, you are my new friend.
      • rlee0001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Oh dude, you seriously need a sitcom. LOL!
    • BrewBeau, on 10/10/2007, -3/+23Societal pressure isn't forcing that blond to do all of that. Maybe to be thin, though. Either way, the blond bimbo type has the complete choice with no repercussions if she chooses not to do that.

      Whoops, someone else already said this above.
      • Cunninlynguist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3a recent study (less than a year old) showed that the percentage of eating disorders in a country like Iran is the same as countries like the USA...

        here in Australia it's full of Ninjas right now, looks like China sent their warriors to invade when you see them in the water 'frolicking'... so, so sad
        • Spikedmilk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Despite the fact that ninjas are, y'know, actually from Japan?
    • rune420, on 10/10/2007, -11/+16I have a lot less respect for western sluts than muslim women. But the problem over there is men oppressing women, the problem over here is just that a large number of women lack decency and integrity. IMO, the former is a lot worse.
      • Meatpuppet79, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Let me guess. Swedish/Danish/German/Dutch Muslim, second generation, think its ok to mistreat the 'western sluts' who live around you until you get married to a 'good Muslim woman'
      • rune420, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1No, I'm not a muslim. I'm a norwegian, my dad was atheist and very anti-islam and I'm no big fan of them either. And I don't think it's ok to abuse sluts I just wouldn't want to be with one, that's all. I can't respect a woman that doesn't respect herself.
    • andnever, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4crazy...or awesome?
    • Gezza, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6I dont think she looks funny, i think she's pretty stupid wearing an outfit like that to go swimming because its impractical and probably dangerous, however, i do generally find the sight of a burkha walking down the street to be in equal parts comical (monty python gang dressed as nuns always comes to mind) and threatening (again - i think its because they remind me of nuns - everyone is scared of nuns).
      As an old punk who used to sport a rather large and colourful mohican and lots of safety pins, i can honestly say i know how it feels to be made fun of, ridiculed and generally hated by society - a couple of old ladies even spat at me once (although in punk circles that was usually encouraged), but i stuck to my beliefs and kept wearing my uniform, because i knew that i was in the right and everyone else was wrong, i was fanatical about being a punk, it was my life, every lyric was scripture to me and i worshipped at various punk temples whenever there was a punk band playing there that i wanted to see. I didnt feel safe unless i was with a crowd of other punks (they would protect me from those horrible old ladies), and gradually i lost most of my non punk friends because they didnt understand my beliefs, and i didnt want to hear about thiers.
      Then, one day i decided i needed to get some money to buy a car (i would make it the punkiest car ever),so i got a job. Unfortunately my boss made me cut off my mohican and wear a staff uniform but i was willing to compromise so that i could achieve my goal of getting my punk car. It was quite daunting at first being around non punks but i eventually became quite acomplished at fitting in with those non believers, and even found myself buying some non punk clothes so that i could acompany my fellow workers on "work nights out" without causing them too much discomfort, but all the time i was still a punk inside. I still believed.
      I am nearly 40 years old now, and i am still tricking people into thinking i am not really a punk. Of course i am sill a punk inside, but i havent worn my uniform for nearly 20 years now. I am a covert punk now. I dont even really tell people i am a punk anymore because they dont seem to believe me.
      But i am.
      What i am trying to say is that i am glad that you consider the wearing of the Burkha as being similar to "18 year old gitls [sic] selling themselves for pornography", otherwise i would have mistakenly thought your sarcasm was meant to be a legitimate comment.
      • ff4marvel, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2"I stuck to my beliefs and kept wearing my uniform."

        Are you honestly comparing punk to Islam?
      • userini, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Please tell me more of your life story.
      • emomakesmecry, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Dude, that is WAY too long for a digg comment. Keep multiple paragraphs for your English papers and not on here. Your average digg user only has a few millisecond attention span after all.
      • JoshChan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Are you writing your dissertation?
    • RareSaturn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not funny, pathetic.
  • c0ldfusi0n, on 11/07/2007, -24/+137Dude. I see two bits of skin on that infidel whore. One on the wrist/forearm, and another near the eyes. Get the gas, i'll get the rocks and the matches.
  • rockmyway, on 10/10/2007, -13/+3Maybe its a man under the hood :)
  • ShadySpace, on 10/10/2007, -13/+64They look like a happy couple. No, I'm not being sarcastic.
    • p0s3r, on 10/10/2007, -17/+9Idiot. I'm sure she's just ecstatic she can't drive. Because you know how happy it makes woman to know that they'll be murdered, or honor murdered, if she gets seen with ANY male and not be in the presence of a male relative of her husband!
    • seajayf, on 10/10/2007, -2/+49he looks happy, she's invisible
    • Exekutor, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8And after all that's what really matters, isn't it?
    • Mejari, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5How can you even pretend to know if they're happy? Just cause he seems happy? She could be about to bite his nose off as far as you can tell.
  • mswope, on 10/10/2007, -4/+69Are you *sure* that's your wife?
  • zanthius, on 10/10/2007, -13/+7Quote: Let's make fun of them, just for entertainment.

    OK.... hahahahahahahahahahhahah that's funny.
  • theoallardyce, on 11/07/2007, -4/+241If people want to dress like this then thats up to them.

    This however is where it crosses the line big ***** time:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1874471.stm
    • spasticjedi, on 10/10/2007, -3/+44How sick. How ***** disgusting and sad.
    • zanthius, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24I don't believe I didn't see that...

      I don't believe we aren't doing anything about it... it's one thing to have a giggle about the burka etc, but something like this goes so far past what the world should tolerate.
      • BrewBeau, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23What's even worse is that we, the US, consider the Saudis to be one of our closest allies. It's sickening.
        • howdareyou, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj9pI5qOQ7E

          West Wing covered that article awhile ago.
        • saudi86canada, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0What's more sickening is you. Bitching about the situation here, and after 10 mins you'll totally forget about it and begin bragging about how great your country is .
          At this moment, at this time, there's nothing worse, or more sickening than Bush Co.

          Since you have this great country of yours. Why did u elect an idiot for a president ??? (it's either you have the most corrupt gov. Or you are ruled by a majority of idiots, which is even worse :S )
          Where's your good health care system?
          Why did u spend more money on our arms deal than on your own citizens (Katrina )?

          P.S. We love our monarchy, we love our king, but the most loved is our religion. ( please find me another Saudi that can disagree )
      • mithrasinvictus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Why not invade, they have oil.
      • hellotyler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Pick your battles, you can't police the whole world.
        • SharkyTech, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Only a communist and traitor would talk like that!
      • ardalan89, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4i cant explain the anger I'm feeling , and this is not on Islam , its for stupid ***** like these who are still roaming around on this planet, we should seriously make a "cause" section , I'm sure it would be more successful than the one on facebook.
        • mrchi03, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Agreed; being a Muslim, that ***** was really sickening to read. No wonder my dad hates the ***** Saudis.
          • elliott203, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Do the universe a favour and renounce your ***** religion.
    • madmathmatician, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15so what i gather is that the dress code is more important than those poor girl's lives? wow, reminds me of catholicisms early days.
      • anonym41414, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4If by "early days" you mean the middle ***** ages, sure.

        An important point to grab on to here is that this sort of enforced morality is something Western cultures grew out of.
        • Spikedmilk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You know, I'm pretty sure he WAS referring to the middle ages.
      • ConceptJunkie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Early days? You mean when they were being fed to the lions for just being Christians? Do you have any idea what you are talking about?
      • blackjack75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It wasn't called catholicism when they were being fed to the lions in the roman empire. At that time they were simply called jews. Christianism was still in formation while the western roman empire existed.

        And seriously you don't have to go back to the middle ages to find christians abusing the power that religion gave them over people. My parents were raised in Franco's spain and according to them the catholic church wasn't worth more than the saudis moral police. That was like 50 years ago, not centuries.

        The only reason christians are "reasonable" today is that we kicked their ass, several times, until they calmed.
    • supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13This is the country considered America's greatest ally in the middle east. How sad. Their citizens knock down the twin towers, their police do THIS... US should be bombing Saudi Arabia and not Iraq.
      • anonym41414, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Maybe I'm the wacky one here, but how about not bombing anybody at all?
      • NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5No, Israel is America's greatest ally in the middle east. The Saudis are militarily ineffective. They even had to call in French troops to bounce a pack of terrorists out of the grand mosque back in 1979.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_Seizure

        -jcr

    • then00b, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Except it isn't "up to them". And yeah that bit of news is messed up.
    • NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2When those thugs are prosecuted and punished, then we'll know that Saudi Arabia is on the way to becoming a civilized country.

      Well, that and abolishing slavery in practice.

      -jcr
    • barryh777, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Think Saudi Arabia is hot? Wait til they find out how hot it is in hell. Bastards.
    • acoot, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1pawn3d.

      /sorry
    • mirror4u, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1These people are wahabbis, and Saudis family are wahabbis. Many muslim reject wahabbis ideology/sect. too bad these wahabbis somehow are supported by the western power.
  • KevinWhite, on 10/10/2007, -27/+41And in most European countries topless women are considered normal and there are many nude beaches, whereas in North America we are generally more uptight about it. It's called culture and just because theres is different from yours doesn't mean it's wrong or you have to laugh at it.
    • mithrasinvictus, on 11/07/2007, -3/+19Read theoallardyce's comment, just above yours.
    • rune420, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2I don't care if a girl goes to a nude beach or w/e, the only thing I find problematic is if she has had sex with way too many men. Personally I would never want to be in a relationship with a girl who has been with more men than she could count on two hands, and I wouldn't have much respect for her as a woman either. Not saying I expect my next date to be a virgin, but it would be nice to know she had not had sex with men she was not in a long term relationship with.
      • Zephik, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Your way of thinking is wrong, please keep your stupidity to yourself. You friggen uptight prick, damn I hate brainwashed people.
        • rune420, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I'm not brainwashed, my parents were very much part of the sexual revolution in the 60s. This is just something I've come to on my own. My dad has at least one illegitemate child with a woman who has 3 children with different fathers (some unknown). Those children are either handicapped, on drugs or mentally ill by now. None of them have had real fathers in their lives. Maybe seeing this has something to do with my way of thinking.
      • elucubra, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2You are a poor sod if you care about a woman's past. it's the present or future you should care about.
    • rootstyle, on 11/07/2007, -7/+7Yea cause you know North America's shyness around nudity should be compared to a culture that stones women for not covering every last square inch of their skin. Thanks for the insight there Mr. Political Correctness.
    • vvaduva, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not when the government kills women for refusing to go along..how is that culture? Or would you say that we should not have stopped cannibalism because it was culturally acceptable?
  • zackintosh, on 10/10/2007, -3/+39Tier 7 Rogue
  • wright3279, on 10/10/2007, -15/+26And the Muslim men will argue "But they want to dress that way", "They don't want to drive a car!", "They want to walk behind their husbands on the street", or "They feel protected."
    • Tarnum, on 10/10/2007, -5/+21Of course they do. Because the alternative is not very pleasant. (stoning)
      You missed it... They want their genitalia cut too.
    • mithrasinvictus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8OTOH if these women should ever chose to rebel, the police would have a very difficult time finding the "terrorists".
    • Niz1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was told by a Muslim the reason why they wear the Hijabs is because a long time ago women were raped a lot in the arab countries that's why the women wear Hijabs today, although i don't see why the police don't just prevent that instead of making sure the women cover up.
      • spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1or why dont the women carry handguns, and protect themselves instead of relying on the state for protection.
    • thomashauk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Hence why it is important we never force democrasy on these countries, the women often have better rights without it!
  • fabriciom, on 10/10/2007, -17/+17This is how I saw beach goers in the US, by the way I live in Spain...
    • elucubra, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3A week ago I was at a beach in southern Spain. Most beaches were dress or undress as you like. It was not uncommon to see a couple where one was nude and the other was in any other level of dress. It is such a personal thing. Why should others ( individual, group, authority, or society) rule how an individual should, or not, dress?
  • yagotmeseruchi, on 10/10/2007, -13/+1I like to go swimmin'
    with bow-legged wimmin
    and swim
    between
    their legs!
  • dozilla, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4that is the black sea
  • chicaneuk, on 10/10/2007, -28/+13You know what.. i'm getting sick of this crap. You know that Muslims in the Middle East and think the same sorts of things about us.. why do their women go around baring so much skin, etc?

    You know we have different cultures. It's what makes us different people. I don't see unusual cultures from places like Ethiopia being called into question where they stretch their necks with jewlery and put plates in their lips - that could be considered far more insane, but no.. because Muslims are current the focus of the infamous "war on terror" suddenly everything they do is weird or oppressive or backwards in some way.

    Just ***** get over it. They have different ways to us. Its what makes us all different. Its what makes the world as diverse as it is. Go back to whatever cave you came from.
    • SirBotchness, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22yes, because openly beating your wife is just a cultural thing, not a moral one.
      • siszam, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2This photo is about being covered, not about a woman being abused.
        • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually I think that the original intention of the photo was about conveying a romantic moment, the look on his face, the fact that she's willing to get into the water wearing the full garb despite the annoyances it would cause and how heavy it would be when she gets out and so forth, it's sweet really. Hell, you'll notice he's wearing a shirt as well, and doesn't seem quite as oppressed...

          Now, when we see it, we can make it about whatever we want...
      • thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Look who drank the feminist Kool-Aid.
    • p0s3r, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13They were watching the gay get hung on the beach. Its a cultural thing, we just don't understand their culture.
      • thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0WTF? What's this got to do with "the gat get hung on the beach"?
    • daniel2e, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10The point, I think, is not that it's different. The implication that woman could conceivably have no other choice, and that's what is difficult to "get over".
    • faxxy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10

      I totally disagree. The culture (both civil and religious) is based on the pre-concieved notion that different sexes have different rights.

      I reject this. This isnt ethnocentrism or xenophobia or any such nonsense. Human rights are universal and any culture that doesnt recognize this needs enlightenment.

      This is true REGARDLESS of geography, colour, religon or culture. Thousands of years of human philosophy and reason have lead us to this truth.

      You can shove your PC apologetics up your ass.
  • Macgyrl64, on 11/04/2007, -16/+55I think what bothers me most is the seeing the little girl having so much fun, of course not realizing that some day she too will be living the life of that woman. I hope she enjoys her sweet life now and someone somewhere pulls her out of that world.

    I'm still wondering where the hell these farging men find the gall to do this to women. It's not in the Quran as far as I know. They're such backward savages they must hide their women or fear that someone better or worse might take them and have sex. Because that's all these arsewipes think about, the physical and tangable world.

    72 virgins in heaven.......give me a ***** break.
    • rauldeandrade, on 10/10/2007, -11/+4I used to think just like you, but it doesn't work exactly as you think it works in this culture. Some women are forced to wear the veil, but not all. Many wear it because they believe that's what's right to do. And yes it is in the Koran... although I don't really understand why. Anyway, it's a different culture that deserves respect, specially for the women.
      • BAFrayd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Respect is earned, not bestowed.
      • felchdonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Not all practices automatically "deserve respect." I don't think 'honor killings,' not allowing women to be in public without their husbands, sanctioned domestic abuse, or the general treatment of half the population as chattel based on their gender deserves any respect at all.
      • rauldeandrade, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0I meant respect for those who choose that life, not for the ones who make it by force.
    • stickguyws, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1The concept of the hijab is a lot different than many people think, at least fundamentally.

      Reading this article written by an arabic girl who chose to wear the hijab and the reasons why helped to enlighten me
      http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/woman/dialogue_opinion_letters/pns_hijab_0305.asp
    • wbeck, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0What bothers ME most is seeing that older woman in the burqa...playing and splashing in the water with her husband, of course not realizing that a few thousand miles west, she could be doing it in a thong bikini instead.

      Some say that a woman can live a happy, fulfilling life without the liberties of exposed asscheeks and push-up bras... and it is these people who make me the saddest of all.
  • TwwIX, on 10/10/2007, -11/+3"Today I went swimming with my Mummy" would be a more fitting title.
  • SirBotchness, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8i know where i'm going for summer vacation.
    • laxwarrior, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2i know where im NOT going for summer vacation
  • antoniuk, on 10/10/2007, -4/+37For oil, we will let anything slide.
  • Leviathan88, on 10/10/2007, -26/+14why should we make fun of someones beliefs/tradition?
    • Jerryskid02, on 10/10/2007, -6/+16Because the "tradition" that women are just pieces of meat for their husbands to do with as they please, just doesn't sit well with everyone.
      • siszam, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4You're making that assumption. No one says they are. You are putting your views onto others and expecting them to live in a way that you approve of. That is not freedom. You don't have that right.
        • Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9"No one says they are."

          Besides their religion, of course. That is, the very same thing that makes them wear that *****.
      • AladinSane, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1And yet, (given the responses in this thread), it's perfectly FINE for American women to be viewed as "just pieces of meat" by every dumbass with a keyboard and an internet connection, right? I don't expect you to get this, but they probably think WE'RE the ones who view women as "meat", given that we're the ones who ruthlessly exploit every aspect of female sexuality. But I wouldn't expect you to understand that.
        • AnteChronos, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4There's a huge difference between viewing women as "a piece of meat", which a small segment of the population of the US does, and being required by Sharia law to *treat* women like "a piece of meat". A woman conversing with a non-related man in Saudi Arabia? That's a beating for the both of you. Trying to escape a burning building without proper head covering? Nah, we're gonna bar the doors and force you to burn to death. ***** that. Seriously. ***** it. I have the utmost respect for other cultures, but that's just barbaric.
    • brotherfigure, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Because humor is an effective tool of critical thinking?
      • AladinSane, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0How, exactly? Do you mean in the "I can't think of anything intelligent or even relevant to say, so I'll be a horse's ass" kind of way?
    • Onyxblaze, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Because they are wrong. Seriously. I don't mind if they [women] choose to do it, but if my religion was that I would beat the ***** out of every girl I saw that wasn't wearing a certain outfit, I would go to jail in any civilized country.
    • VipeNess, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9beliefs/tradition? It's all *****. It's called control. One says something, others follow or get killed. I am for one not making fun of nor enjoy looking at someone have to wear something like that in the water. Inhumane' that it be, it's wrong. If they believe in Islam so bad, why don't they call forth their god to come down and say, hey, im their god, and blah blah blah. Their religion is nothing but a great story teller, an artist, and people to follow to make money. Simple.
    • brownr21, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Because they're stupid.
      • Btzarro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Nope,You're confusing them with yourself , You fox news loving chickenhawk.
    • dainfagerholm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Because we can.
      • Btzarro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Such great arguments from dumb inbred hicks
    • Rkocour, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0Because ethnocentric thinking is a dominant factor when viewing outside cultures, causing us to judge them based on our own beliefs. Also note, when i say beliefs, i don't necessarily mean faith based beliefs, though those are included, i am also including rational and scientific beliefs, though some may be flawed, as well as non rational common held beliefs. Basically your fallacy held beliefs cause you to make judgments, usually flawed ones, of another culture.Take a freaking anthropology class.
    • polebridge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3as theoallardyce said earlier, this is why:
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1874471.stm
  • cadon35, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28Strong current = certain death
  • slyzxx, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1gee lets make fun of other cultures but when people make fun of yours lets see the uproar. and at Macgyrl64 yes it is actually says that a woman must be covered from head to toe and to the wrists. now covering the eyes is a womans choice. that stops potential adultry. No wonder arabia have few cases of aids and HIV or std`s.
    • felchdonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1While Saudi Arabia does not keep accurate count of HIV infections in their country, doctors have estimated that there may be as many as 80,000 cases, or 0.3% of the total population. That's right between the rate of about 0.45% in the United States, and 0.1% in the UK.
      In Saudi Arabia, however, many hospitals refuse to treat AIDS patients, making the mortality rate much higher, and of course, the life of someone suffering from AIDS there is far worse.

      Here's a quote about the general rate of infection in your beloved Muslim world:
      "The notion that this region has sidestepped the global epidemic - perhaps due to strict rules governing sexual behaviour - is not supported by the latest estimates, which indicate that 68,000 people acquired an HIV infection in 2006, bringing the total number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa to an estimated 460,000."
      This is from the AIDS charity AVERT: http://www.avert.org/worlstatinfo.htm


      You need to join the modern world and realize that superstition medieval attitudes towards women isn't going to save you.
    • mithrasinvictus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://www.thebody.com/content/world/art9030.html

      where did you get that statistic?
  • sovietrussia, on 10/10/2007, -10/+0Wow Holy ***** you mean people who believe different things also like to do things like swim? WOW. They're not allowed to have fun because they're not like us. Give me a ***** break.

    All you ***** making fun of these people are just as bad as the islamic extremists who hate us because we're not like them. I'm SICK of this *****. ***** all of you bitches!
    • acceptab1euname, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1We're laughing at their stupid, silly, religiouis beliefs because they're stupid and silly. Deal with it. Nice to see who's really got the hate, though.
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