Hi AC,

Gymnastics in a burka! A new Olympic sport. What about that poor Saudi Arabian girl at the Comm Games, poor thing, doing the 100m dog paddle in a burka. She finished second by a touch, natural to the Aussie girl, "Super Fish", in new Commonwealth record time of 4 hours and 23 minutes. Don't know who finished third, they haven't come up from the bottom of the pool yet, probably a Pom! BTW that was Australia's 10,000th gold medal at the games! What about that! Ethiopia 2026 here we come.

There need not be any particular dress code for any religion. More so when it affects health!
People should distinguish themselves as Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, etc by following the respective religious tenets faithfully and not by mere dressing styles. These physical dress codes create a deep chasm between different religious denominations and cause unwanted severe consequences.

As somebody has put it, it is known, Hijab is not mandatory in many Muslim countries. What about the cinema Muslim heroines? In India, there are famous Muslim actresses (Zeenat Aman, Mumtaj, Shabna Azmi, Waheeda Rehman) who do not wear Hijab while acting. Why Islamic fundamentalists do not bother about this so-called violation?
Let us go out in the streets as human beings and not as Christians, Muslims etc with a particular dress code. Humanism should prevail over fanaticism of religion

Indigenous believe in the rainbow serpent, and they were neither gay nor wore clothes, wonder where they fit into this religious scale?

Do gays accuse them of cultural appropriation, or is it the other way around?
Do other religions accuse them and their women of immodesty?
Do Jews complain they stole their reverence of serpents?
Its all so confusing...

AC,
You are getting confused for nothing. when the issue is quite clear where is the need for confusion? Extraneous and nonserious issues need not be brought into this very serious discussion

The discussion is about the use of the Hijab by Muslim girls in schools in India.
What precisely do any of us in Australia know about this?
And why does it even matter what we think or say?
It's up to the Indians to decide what's best for India and make pragmatic choices for themselves regarding changes they want in their society.

There's 200 million Muslims in India, but 80% of the country are Hindu, maybe the Indian Muslims should move to Pakistan, though the Pakistani economy's tanked and have food shortages and many will die of starvation, as well as the huge flood affecting a third of the country right now.
Maybe more Muslims will instead be moving to India.

What sort of sensible informed response do you expect from Aussies, we're neither a Hindu nation or a Muslim nation.
Most Indian Muslims are Sunni, maybe you should've asked your question in a Saudi Arabian forum, how should we know?
What answer did you want?

How are we supposed to know what goes on in the backwoods suburbs of India?
People live on the train tracks and clean out toilet pits by hand.
We don't live like that, how are we supposed to relate to the scale of their population and demographics or problems, or even their caste system to make informed decisions regarding the challenges and priorities of Indian society?

They're probably more likely to die from being hit by a train or catching a disease from poor sanitation than die from a lack of Vitamin D for wearing scarves.

Maybe you wish to place a global ban on hats, hoodies and skivvies too? I'm not even Muslim.
Maybe you can convince these girls not to wear the hijab and then the other strict Muslims will attack the liberal Muslims.
How do I know how they will react to change, or if they're even open to it.

I'm an Australian mate, hot summers, a few beers, beaches and girls in bikinis.

"we're neither a Hindu nation nor a Muslim nation." A Highly escapist argument. Let us all feel that we are human beings first and other identities next.
You have specialised in devious ways of argument. You never respond to arguments put forth but come out with new and irrelevant issues. I think that we must put a full stop to this kind of useless discussion.