[northtexan]

Quote by: tinybear Well, if men look at them as sex objects, it's the men who are at fault.

Yeah, but the idea that men should wear blindfolds in public has just somehow never caught on. I suspect that it's the lack of fashion in available blindfolds. Now, if only someone would offer a line of fashion blindfolds, I'm sure that the clerics that issued the fatwa will be willing to wear them and prescribe them to all men in their flock. And why shouldn't they? After all, they already allow religious ideology to blind them to so much of the world -- and I don't limit that comment to Muslim clerics.

Quote by: Protostar Yeah, but its the men who are in control, so what they say goes. They do it so their wives will be protected from the prying eyes of other males. It's sort of a terrorial thing, the way I look at it.

But what makes the tennis star part of their territory? Are her relatives among those denouncing her? I suspect that it's because she is Muslim herself, although I don't know that she is. It seems that their concept of their own territory is rather broad -- perhaps taking in the entire subcontinent.

Quote by: tinybear If they had any balls, they'll take it up with whoever oogles their wives instead of punishing the women for failing to cover up their bodies from head to toe.

Well, tennis players have fuzzy balls, including women tennis players. Maybe the clerics lack fuzzy balls, so instead they make a big racket.

For that matter, why not demand that the the entire tennis court be covered up, from end to end? That would effectively end any oggling.