Monday, October 26, 2009

Good Old Muscle Power

So, a friend of mine has returned to university after she'd abandoned it ten years ago because of the headscarf ban- in the interim she married and had two children. Now, the ban is still in place in some universities, sometimes only in some buildings of some universities- evidence of the arbitrary nature of the whole thing. So my friend takes a couple of exams and yesterday as she is about to sit another, the janitor stands in her way with a no pasaran. She tells him he has no authority to stop her as he is not of administrative stock. But he is keen to make his citizen's arrest. Luckily, my friend's husband is with her and he physically pushes the janitor aside. The janitor can't now do aught and my friend sits the exam. I am now thinking taekwando can largely improve the educational lives of Turkish Muslim girls.

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