Multiple university medical studies easily accessed on the internet show that possibly 90% of Muslim women who wear burqas and veils (usually by religious decree and against their will) suffer from severe and chronic vitamin D deficiency which increases with age. 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 in the womb.
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 human skin 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 can sometimes be subject to arrest, imprisonment, beatings etc......does this sound like a decree from God?.
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
