And that is not dress for the occasion. That is dress to meet religious edict as you determine it. Go and read your post again before making spurious analogies.
Exactly dress for the occasion.
wHAT is spurious analogies?
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If it is not an edict then why complain? Is it disguised under the context of custom?
I remember an instance where a simple act of popular symbol of subservience reconstituted the Papacy and kept together the Catholic church.
Popo leo III was defeated, his trusty aides brought the bedraggled, Pope to an audience of the Frankish King. Charlemagne did not need him Leo needed him. Charlemagne could have taken the empire and declared himself Emperor on the spot. Instead, he was conned into supplicating before the pope to receive the title of emperor thus re establishing before the world the supremacy of the church.
The lady is there on official business not God's business. She is not of the faith. If she is seen as bending to the faith, then she set the rule. I am glad she did not bend the knee.
You are not glad about anything except that you want to talk.
IF YOU READ AND DIGEST WHAT i SAID , IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE DUTY OF THE ORGANIZERS TO HAND THE HON MINISTER A HEAD SCARF.