Burqas cause vitamin D deficiency in women.

Multiple scientific studies easily accessed on the internet show that possibly 90% of Muslim women who wear veils and burqas (sheet like full body coverings usually worn by religious decree and against their will) suffer from severe vitamin D deficiency from lack of exposure to sunlight.... which in some cases can be severe and debilitating, not only to these women, but also their unborn children who suffer from a wide range of ills and physical deformities at birth because of vitamin D deficiency.

These deficiencies increase as these women age, leading to severe osteoporosis/osteomalacia (severe thinning and weakness of the bones) and a long list of negative health effects including cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure etc. (the list is long).....most of these women have no idea that their ailments are caused by vitamin D deficiency and that it's caused by covering their bodies as ordered by religious clerics who believe that women should cover their bodies to be modest and that this is a holy decree by God...this is why when you see photographs of women in many Muslim countries/tribal areas they are wearing what looks like a sheet over their entire bodies and their head.

When the human body is deprived of sunlight it can no longer easily produce vitamin D (or process calcium which is needed for bone maintenance etc.) without heavy vitamin D supplementation which most Muslim women have no access to and cannot afford.....even if they knew they were vitamin D deficient.

In many areas of the Muslim world girls and women are not even allowed to learn to read or go to school, where they could learn about issues pertaining to their own health....such as vitamin D deficiency and it's causes.

Muslim women who refuse to cover their bodies are often subject to arrest and imprisonment, beatings and worse.....does this sound like a decree from God?.....I think the answer is pretty clear.

If this is a decree by God than God must hate women and children and like afflicting them with sickness, pain and physical deformity.

This petition calls on Muslim religious clerics everywhere to repeal religious edicts/laws requiring women to cover their bodies with sheets, burkas, veils.....these laws humiliate women and cause a great deal of physical and psychological pain and suffering not only to the women who are affected but also their unborn children.

We the undersigned agree with the sentiments of this author.

For further information on this subject go to:

http://tbknews.blogspot.com/2009/06/muslim-women-vitamin-d-and-osteomalacia.html

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/06/could-burkas-ma/?commenter=

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-469196/Women-hijabs-need-sunlight-risk-illness.html

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25354895-953,00.html

http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec12/ch154/ch154j.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/idushar56610220070625

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypovitaminosis_D

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/12/muslim-women-in-ireland-warned-that-wearing-burqa-may-cause-vitamin-d-deficiency-and-related-disorde.html

Multiple scientific studies easily accessed on the internet show that possibly 90% of Muslim women who wear burkas and veils (usually by religious decree and against their will) suffer from severe vitamin D deficiency which in some cases can be severe and debilitating, not only to these women, but also their unborn children who suffer from a wide range of ills and physical deformities at birth because of vitamin D deficiency.

These deficiencies increase as these women age, leading to severe osteoporosis/osteomalacia (severe thinning and weakness of the bones) and a long list of negative health effects including cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure etc. (the list is long).....most of these women have no idea that their ailments are caused by vitamin D deficiency and that it's caused by covering their bodies as ordered by religious clerics who believe that women should cover their bodies to be modest and that this is a holy decree by God...this is why when you see photographs of women in many Muslim countries/tribal areas they are wearing what looks like a sheet over their entire bodies and their head.

When the human body is deprived of sunlight it can no longer easily produce vitamin D (or process calcium which is needed for bone maintenance etc.) without heavy vitamin D supplementation which most Muslim women have no access to and cannot afford.

Muslim women who refuse to cover their bodies are often subject to arrest and imprisonment, beatings and worse.....does this sound like a decree from God?.....I think the answer is pretty clear.

If this is a decree by God than God must hate women and children and like afflicting them with sickness, pain and physical deformity.

This petition calls on Muslim religious clerics everywhere to repeal religious edicts/laws requiring women to cover their bodies with sheets, burkas, veils.....these laws humiliate women and cause a great deal of physical and psychological pain and suffering not only to the women who are affected but also their unborn children.

We the undersigned agree with the sentiments of this author.

For further information on this subject go to:

http://tbknews.blogspot.com/2009/06/muslim-women-vitamin-d-and-osteomalacia.html

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/06/could-burkas-ma/?commenter=

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-469196/Women-hijabs-need-sunlight-risk-illness.html

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25354895-953,00.html

http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec12/ch154/ch154j.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/idushar56610220070625

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypovitaminosis_D

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/12/muslim-women-in-ireland-warned-that-wearing-burqa-may-cause-vitamin-d-deficiency-and-related-disorde.html