I don't usually enter this kind of conversation/debate, but the issue of the hijab is one that really gets to me.

I live in one of the most "liberated" cities in North America and I was raised catholic (although my family does not practice).

It was a few years ago that I started to notice how skewed things were here. I find it funny how we talk about feminism and being liberated yet we constantly demote ourselves to the status of disposable sexual objects for men to look upon, lust after for a few moments and then toss us aside! How demeaning! And yet we keep coming back for more! And we keep calling it freedom and EQUALITY!

I think that if a woman decides to wear a hijab and dress modestly (by her won choice), then good for her! I encourage it greatly and hope someday to have the guts to do it myself! I'm not saying I dress provocatively here, but there are times when I wear some clothing to go out and I just feel very self conscious and somewhat uncomfortable.

On another topic: I was reading that a man can hit/strike his wife if she dissobeys him repeatedly (and he has tried to reason with her, etc). Now, what if a man dissobeys his wife and she has tried to reason with him repeatedly - can she strike him? By dissobey, I don't interpret it as meaning something petty like not washing the dishes, I consider it to be something more fundamental, something that truly is wrong/immoral.