--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: > > Unfortunately, the demands made are on a women and > it is not the attire that worries me, it is the > motive behind it. > > Nor it is very different from what the Taliban did > to their women. Perhaps those decision were > blatant but this one is more insidious because it > is opaque. The motive however is not. > --- Floriano wrote: > GOANS MUST NOT ALLOW GOVERNMENTS (WHO GET ELECTED ON THE VOTES OF MIGRANT POPULATION) TO DECIDE FOR GOA. > Mario asks: > First, to Elisabeth, Could you please let us know how you found out the motive behind the Goa salwar-khameez policy? I have been trying to find out what reasons were given by the Goa school administration in order to do so, but JoeGoaUK has not come through on my request to investigate the facts for us. You have now twice stated conclusively that you know the motive, and I would really like to know exactly what it is and how you found out. > If this is one of those intuitive conclusions that every sensitive person ought to automatically know, I need to factor that into my analysis because I have zero intuition and am lost without supporting facts. > Also, I'm trying real hard to understand this statement of yours about the salwar-khameez policy, "Nor it is very different from what the Taliban did to their women." > Maybe, living in the US as I do, I have missed altogether what is going on in Goa, but are they now whipping the school girls with canes in public if their ankles can be seen? Are they beheading them in the football stadiums if they are seen in public with males not related to them? BTW, how are the Goan girls even allowed to go to school, if the Goan school policies are not "...very different from from what the Taliban did to their women." > Some similarities with Madhya Pradesh maybe. But the Taliban? Do analogies mean anything any more under the new paradigm where everything as we know it, is "provisional"? > To Florian, I agree with you that any government action should be subject to scrutiny and protest. > However, I can't even get a simple answer to my questions as to a) what was the official reason given for the new school policy, assuming one was offered? b) has anyone polled the parents to gage their reaction? and c) what do the girls think? Do you know? Does it matter? > Re. your striking clarion call to ignore the opinions of migrants, who must have registered as residents of Goa in order to vote, how exactly do you propose to nullify the elected government if you deem their decision to be "against Goa"? > I assume you have already determined what is an acceptable decision FOR "Goa" and what is NOT??? I'm afraid to even ask how you made such a determination. Do they conduct statistically valid polling in Goa, which would provide some guidance and validity to a protest? > >
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