Poland´s at 41st place And Ireland made the 5th Our Brits will be disappointed being on 21st place while the evil Amerikans made it to the 13th. Turkey is 79th way behind Belarus, Cuba and Albania - that´s surprising

Amazing Drawing with Sand from Ukraine´s Got Talent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOhf3OvRXKg

 A-MA-ZING!

Translator Wars continues in the Translation Forum!

Eiffel tower with turkish colors

http://www.libertasoccidentalis.net/libertasoccidentalis09/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Tour-Eiffel-illumin%C3%A9e-005.jpg

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Barack Obama!

they are phenomenons

I prefer enigmas to phenomenons

Muslims in Canada calling for burka ban... Interesting!

A Canadian Muslim group is calling on Ottawa to ban the wearing of the burka in public, saying the argument that the right to wear it is protected by the Charter’s guarantee of freedom of religion is false.

“The burka has absolutely no place in Canada,” said Farzana Hassan, of the Muslim Canadian Congress. “In Canada we recognize the equality of men and women. We want to recognize gender equality as an absolute. The burka marginalizes women.”

She said many women who cover their face in public are being forced to by their husbands and family. As a result, she argued, these women are denied opportunities and cannot live freely as other women in this society.

“The Koran exhorts Muslims toward modesty, which can be expressed in a number of different ways and it doesn’t have to be that you have to cover your face or you have to wear a virtual tent wherever you go. This is not a requirement of Islam or the Koran. We are saying this practice has become a political issue promoted by extremists and to counter this trend we are asking for a ban on the burka.”

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/10/07/muslim-group-calls-for-burka-ban-in-canada.aspx

 Wow - this is very interesting and a very positive step ...

I think it´s right that burka should be banned, especially the saudi arabia/taliban style ones! However, I don´t think that all women are forced by their husbands to wear it, although their husbands surely enjoy their freedom and their wifes´ imprisonment. It´s not the burka that´s the root of the problem, it´s the overbearing, present everywhere sexism, objectification of women, patriarchal values that we are all brainwashed with from childhood. It is not truly liberating when women are forced to wear something, although I agree that some limits have to be set.