The Oppression Of Women In Haiti

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The gay people are also getting the pressure from the society because it is all against the bible, perhaps the transgender as a way of cover the dirt they have done to themselves consider by the society, but the same sex somehow is far worst. Since the beginning god creates Adam and Eve to reunited as man and women, in some society they accept them to be legally public in some not. For example, in Haiti if they find a gay either men or women the population will take them down because for them it is not right. In America in other hands, they accept them to be legally married and adopt children. They are consistency viewed by the way they talk, dress, look, and talk. For instance, someone who entered a public place will be noticed right away …show more content…
women are the central of interest in society, in some community they consider less to men as an example of Muslim women. All over the world Muslim women are viewed as different by the way the dress, or their belief. In their country, the law imposed them to show their face even their hair public, which oppressed them because they are mostly the concern in their country by their religious policy and the strict law that the government imposed upon the Muslim women. The fact that if they did not carry the hijab which is the head scarf they might be banished from their tribe, or if they don’t follow their husband rules they getting beat up by them, some of them have no choice than accepting their husband having more than one wife just to name a few. Why do Muslim women wear their hijab? people thank of everything when it comes to describing the reason why Muslim women carried their head scarf, most people said because it is a tradition symbol, some Muslim women have the idea of wearing it as a cultural code or fashion model because it makes them look beautiful. But in some other societies, it represents a religion belief, which identifies the Muslim women as a respected woman in the eye of their families and community. The authors Fayyaz, Waseem and Kamal report in “Practicing Hijab (veil): A Source of Autonomy and Self-esteem for Modern Muslim Women”, “Women seem to be

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