{"id":819,"date":"2013-11-08T17:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2013-11-13T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:17:46","slug":"tolerence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/tolerence\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have traveled in Muslim countries before and I&#8217;m used to seeing women covering their hair as a matter of modesty.  But sometimes when I see a women here with her hair all covered up in typical Muslim head covering, the thought passes through my mind, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t they just go with the local custom so they don&#8217;t stand out?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I think a good analogy is to imagine my wife, mother or sister traveling to, or being forced to live in, a country where it is customary for women to bare their breasts in public.  Would I expect the women in my life to just &#8220;go along with the local custom&#8221;?  No, I don&#8217;t think I would.  The idea is deeply ingrained that it would be shameful, even if the locals wouldn&#8217;t care or notice.<\/p>\n<p>I know that many women from Muslim countries feel the same shame and modesty about uncovering their hair, and I need to respect that, as long as they are doing it voluntarily.  But I can&#8217;t push that tolerance to the point of accepting the full body covers that leave just a mesh to look through.  That&#8217;s just inhumane, and I can&#8217;t believe any intelligent woman would voluntarily submit to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have traveled in Muslim countries before and I&#8217;m used to seeing women covering their hair as a matter of modesty. But sometimes when I see a women here with her hair all covered up in typical Muslim head covering, the thought passes through my mind, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t they just go with the local custom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}