it probably appeals to a certain 'hip' demographic — Bitter Crank
It appeals to me and I’m far from hip. — praxis
Granted. Anything else? — praxis
Sports Illustrated announced that they’ll be featuring a model wearing a hijab and burkini in this years swimsuit issue. — praxis
In America we are all Americans so we are incapable of seeing any other American as an enemy. Is that the sort of logic you’re using? — praxis
I really can't imagine a lot of Muslim men lining up to buy it though. — Sir2u
Supposedly Muslim women are not supposed to wear clothes that demark the shape of the body. So how does SI think this will help race relations? — Sir2u
I doubt that there will be very many Muslim men happy about the faithless unclean ogling their females. I cannot see how that could be counted as "Showcasing in a positive light" or make the poor women's lives easier. I seriously doubt that many of the men are as liberal as that woman's family are.Probably not the democratic they’re attempting to appeal to, I assume. — praxis
The Muslim faith is not a race. — praxis
Spelling. Democratic for demographic. I blame the spell checker. It's getting too aggressive at changing the word, with often absurd results. So much for the robotics revelation revolution. See? — Bitter Crank
And can we please stop using race as an all purpose term for difference we are going to disapprove of? — Bitter Crank
There are only four races that don't exist -- white, black, yellow, and red. If you don't like yellow people as a group, you're racist, maybe. — Bitter Crank
If you don't like Welsh people, that's quite sensible. — Bitter Crank
My understanding is that at least part of the point is that it is not against islam, only against certain extremist interpretations of islam such as wahabi. So it sends a message that it is possible to be a good muslim without being a joy-killing wahabi.If that sort of posing is against muslim women's religion — creativesoul
I don't understand that sentence. Are you sure it's what you meant to write?I’d rather suffer the consequences and force myself to write more carefully. — I like sushi
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