LONDON - The heated debate over veils that cover the faces of some British Muslim women is growing ugly and could trigger riots, the head of Britain's race relations watchdog warned on Sunday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061022/ap_on_re_eu/britain_veil_debate
That's sad. I'm all for assimilation and integration into a new culture, but I think the process should be gradual and allowed to progress naturally at it's own pace. To forcibly require Muslim women to reveal themselves is a cruel & brutal assault on their sensibilities. I equate it to an American woman visiting the south of France and demanding she go topless on the beach. You may laugh about it, ...but seriously tho, ...is that the kind of treatment you'd want for your mothers, sisters, wives, or daughters... demanding they expose their breasts for everyone to see in public?
I think the veils will disappear given time in a western culture, but to demand it will only re-inforce resistance to making the leap. That said...
I LOVE Star Trek
Wasn't too fond of Voyageur. I found it kinda boring, and I can't help but be reminded of the soap opera Ryan's Hope everytime I see Captain JaneWay. I really liked Star Trek TNG. How can you resist such a sexy Shakespearean actor who could say
"Make It So" with such masterful presence?
But my all-time favourite Star Trek is DS9. It always had great story lines, and a full compliment of very diverse and very well fleshed-out characters with distinctive personalities. Worff and his strong silent, and dignified Klingon ways. The slimey Cardassian tailor. Major Keira Nerice and her fiery personality, former freedom fighter for the Bajoran resistance, desperately struggling to leave her warrior past behind, and find new purpose for her life. Then there are all those brutish Klingon warriors types, sexing things up a bit with their raw primitive ways. The anally retentive by-the-book shape-shifter Odo ...just aching to let his hair down. How can you not smile at the heartwarming childhood misadventures of Jake and Nog? ...or empathize with Captain Benjamin Cisco... mere mortal, single father, Federation Captain and reluctant emissary of the Bajoran prophets, as he struggles to be a good father, raise his child, guide the station, lead his crew, protect Bajore and the wormhole, ...while having the weight of the quadrant on his shoulders
...And then there's everybody's favourite... the Pharenghi that everybody loves to hate and hates to love... that greedy, conniving, would sell-his-own-grandmother for a strip of gold pressed latinum ...Quark.
Oh Man, ...I JUST LOVE THAT SHOW!