[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

[Dan Rosenthal]

Should I avoid being Jewish while I'm at it? Why not, it's a choice  
just like being gay is right? Or if being gay is not a choice (TBH I  
don't know what the prevailing viewpoint is), should I attempt to  
avoid being black? Should I be stoned for being a single mother out  
of wedlock? Oh what a slippery slope we're on here, and the fact that  
people are ok with it is really scary.

-Dan
On Oct 11, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:

>> No, that's not the problem.
>> I'm reading "Don't take a double", and that's... how to say?  
>> Ridicolous?
>> This is not a matter of wearing a t-shirt with "I'm gay" written on,
>> this is a matter of people who are not permitted to sleep with their
>> partner cause "could be offensive" and could give problem.
>> Iperbole: when will be going to a place where women "socially" wear
>> burqa, are we going to ask all the women attending to "wear the burqa
>> to not seem offensive"? I don' think so.
>>
>> Please: read what you write.
>> I'm not against Alexandria, but the more I read this thread, the more
>> I'm ashamed of what I read.
>
> I never said they would not be permitted to sleep with their partner,
> I said it might be wise to avoid being to obvious about it. Sometimes
> we do thing we would rather not do, just for the sake of a quiet life.
> If people want to make a stand, then that's their decision, but if
> people want to go to Wikimania to talk about Wikimedia projects,
> rather than to preach to the natives, they may want to consider being
> discrete.
>
> As for the burqa - only the most oppressive regimes (if any) require
> non-Muslims to wear the burqa, and I don't believe many Muslims would
> be offended by non-Muslim women showing their faces. It is, however,
> often recommended that women (and, men, for that matter), dress a
> little more modestly that perhaps they would usually do when in
> devoutly Muslim countries - for example, it would be inappropriate to
> wander around in just a bikini and sarong.
>
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