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Can I wear a tank top or shorts in Saudi Arabia....I dont think so.
There is evidence that this type of dress was worn by some Arab and Persian women long before Islam. For example, the Roman African Christian Tertullian, writing in Chapter 17 of The Veiling of Virgins around 200 AD, praises the modesty of those "pagan women of Arabia" who "not only cover their head, but their whole face...preferring to enjoy half the light with one eye rather than prostituting their whole face."[2] Strabo, writing in the first century AD, also refers to covering the face as a practice of some Persian women (Geography 11.13. 9-10).
Many Muslims believe that the Islamic holy book, the Qur'an, and the collected traditions of the life of Muhammed, or hadith, require both men and women to dress and behave modestly in public. However, this requirement, called hijab, has been interpreted in many different ways by Islamic scholars (ulema) and Muslim communities (see Women and Islam).
The Quran has been translated as stating: "O Prophet! Say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the faithful to draw their outergarments (jilbabs) close around themselves; that is better that they will be recognized and not annoyed. And God is ever Forgiving, Gentle." [3].
Another verse in the Quran is translated as: "And say to the faithful women to lower their gazes, and to guard their private parts, and not to display their beauty except what is apparent of it, and to extend their headcoverings (khimars) to cover their bosoms (jaybs), and not to display their beauty except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husband's fathers, or their sons, or their husband's sons, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their womenfolk, or what their right hands rule (slaves), or the followers from the men who do not feel sexual desire, or the small children to whom the nakedness of women is not apparent, and not to strike their feet (on the ground) so as to make known what they hide of their adornments. And turn in repentance to Allah together, O you the faithful, in order that you are successful" [4]
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Originally posted by mr-lizard
reply to post by tothetenthpower
The thing is ... we can't wear Ski-masks, balaclavas , masks , hoodies in public places - so why should Muslims be excluded?
This is the point that people are making.
Originally posted by ZuluChaka
reply to post by InfaRedMan
Who care whether it is religious or cultural or none of the above. Should your citizens not be allowed to wear whatever clothes they choose?
Then explain why our British born citizens either can't wear hoodies, masks, balaclavas etc
Or why British born muslim feel obliged to wear the oppresive shackles of a purely patriarchal society in the 21st century of equal rights?
Originally posted by mr-lizard
Originally posted by ZuluChaka
reply to post by InfaRedMan
Who care whether it is religious or cultural or none of the above. Should your citizens not be allowed to wear whatever clothes they choose?
Then explain why our British born citizens either can't wear hoodies, masks, balaclavas etc
Or why British born muslim feel obliged to wear the oppresive shackles of a purely patriarchal society in the 21st century of equal rights?
LMAO at the irony of an American calling other nation's citizens "scared". You guys are the most frightened, paranoid little rabbits on the planet. Can't even sleep at night without a gun under your pillow. Pathetic.
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
And those who mask their intolerance with non sensical statements about gene pools and sharia law...
~Keeper
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
Other than maybe modeling and maybe acting, in what jobs is seeing someone's face mandatory? How many jobs are there where this actually matters?