Woman in Burqa condemns woman in chador

This is an article about a woman who completely covers herself for her religious ideology, and claims that a woman who only wears a chador is not following religion as seriously. I just finished reading the Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood over the break and it's steeped in Catholic mysticism. I remember the condemnation in the church when girls didn't behave appropriately, but no one criticized the boys if they acted out. It seems rather universal that women bare the burden for the world's shame. In the Ya Ya book, a very pious mother had a daughter who was a cheerleader. The cheerleader daughter indulged in the sin of vanity because she was pretty and popular, which was simply too much for her mother to understand. Her mother sent her to a very strict Catholic boarding school for bad girls and girls who wanted to become nuns.
I remember rebelling against the church's doctrine when I was told, after four years of service as an altar server, that girls were not supposed to be servers. The priest at our church had "made a mistake" and it would now be corrected by expelling all the girls. I cried, and lost faith in the rediculous doctrine that said I wasn't good enough for God because I had the wrong parts.
My views on religion at the time were just forming, as the little cheerleader in the book, and forming around someone else's views of how girls should act.
I think the woman in the chador is very brave for standing up for her views in the face of such hostility simply because a man might see the color of her eyes. In her country, her actions are quite risque although here she may still be viewed as very concervative even with her whole face showing.


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