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261. Jim Al-Khalili on the Joy of Science

The Michael Shermer Show

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Do You Know What a Moslim Woman Wants to Wear?

Women should be able to wear whatever they want, he says. But if she's forced to wear it by her husband? Now that seems to me drawing a line in the sand there. We have a moral principle of bodily autonomy and choice - you can't tell me what to do. He gets very frustrated with some of his relatives who still live in an inner ark. For them, it's identity. It's not because men saw how wonderfully shaped their hair was. His father has grown up in an innerArk but now lives in Europe.

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