The two events that I have chosen are the Victorian bushfires, news report found at http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/nation-mourns-bushfire-victims/2009/02/22/1235237427907.html and the argument that whether female muslims should wear their burquas into banks/stores or not.
On the 14th February 2009 bushfires had started to strike many towns in Victoria, in this tragic event lots of people died trying to save their homes and others trying to escape. But many also survived by listening to the warnings, gathering important things and leaving to go somewhere safe prior to the fires.
After more than a week of bushfires blazing through towns, people began searching other people’s burnt down homes for valuable items and stealing them.
If you asked me, I would say this is utterly disrespectful for the people who are suffering from this terrible event. These thieves obviously do not have a soft spot for people in distress which is just awful. These thieves would be stealing (for some families) the only things to remember their lost ones by.
Please view this video of Today Tonight before reading this part of the blog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHvKtvDudgk
Do you think women should wear burquas in shops and banks? ......... Well I don’t!
Sorry, but I think that if they come to live in our country they should abide by our laws, especially if women who go over to their country have to abide by their religion, which is pretty much their law.
I think that any staff at banks/stores should have the right to ask the mmuslim women politely to remove at least their face covering, so that they can tell who the person is. But if they refuse to do so, I believe that the staff can ask them to leave (politely).
I can understand where the staff are coming from with this argument because people wearing burquas can easily hide and steal objects underneath their covering. This is the only reason that they are asking the women to remove their burquas.
But coming from a female muslims point of view, this is a sacred thing to them and also a law in their country. If they are seen with skin showing (other than their eyes), it may 'turn on' men which could then lead to sexual assault. So it is understandable why they seem to wear the burquas in other countries aswell.
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Steele, you have picked two sensitive issues and I wonder if you need to treat issues of multiculturalism somewhat more sensitively than you have here. After all, this is a comment that is posted in the public domain and some of what has been written does not portray those of other faiths or cultures in a sensitive light. That aside, there are other issues also that need to be addressed in how this blog is constructed:
ReplyDelete1. you have not shown the connections of how these two events address issues of sacred space. What about how possessions can define for us what 'sacred' is? What about how we dress helps to define to others what it is that we believe? What about how the sense of belonging and identifying with a community also helps create a sense of the sacred amongst a community of like-minded individuals?
2. My second point was - no double bubble map as yet.
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