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Muslim women dress
infinite59:
I'm supposed to prepare this little talk, so I'm practicing on here, give feedback if you want.
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It really has a lot to do with your interest in the matter. The friends I grew up with probably walked by dozens of women wearing hijabs, and never took any notice of it, never thought twice about it, cared very little. Muslim women and their style of dress was never mentioned once in any conversation I had ever had growing up. The times are different now. Muslims are now being discussed every day in the media. But back then I really don't ever remember it being something that was discussed.
My situation is a little bit different. I was raised Christian and I never could feel comfortable with Christianity. I was very interested in hearing opposing viewpoints. The first time I took notice of women covering themselves was in the movie Malcolm X which was often played on HBO as I was growing up. It made a very strong impression on me. There is a scene in the movie where Malcolm X was approaching women in the streets and saying, "This is who you really are," and showing them a picture of an audotorium of women all wearing white viels. It made a strong impression on me. You automatically think, "These are the most pure women I've ever seen" and curious "there's really women who act like that?"
Still, my becoming a Muslim was through predominately male influences. Then, the longer I was Muslim the more reverence I had for women for wearing the hijab, and the more I understood the important role it played in perserving Islam's value's of righteousness and piety within the Muslim community.
Machiavelli:
My Question to You:
If Islam is sooo damn peaceful, how come women are treated like shit and forced to wear a hijab?
Lincoln:
--- Quote from: Machiavelli on July 28, 2004, 05:27:34 PM ---My Question to You:
If Islam is sooo damn peaceful, how come women are treated like shit and forced to wear a hijab?
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Talk to one they want to wear it. It guarantees that they are not looked at simply as sex objects and the covering up reserves them to be seen by only their husbands who love them and Allah who loves them. This Western society has taught women empowering comes by dressing so that men will not look at you as people but as sex objects. Feel free to add on Ibrahim or anyone else.
infinite59:
--- Quote from: Lincoln The Mental Traveller on July 28, 2004, 08:43:01 PM ---
--- Quote from: Machiavelli on July 28, 2004, 05:27:34 PM ---My Question to You:
If Islam is sooo damn peaceful, how come women are treated like shit and forced to wear a hijab?
--- End quote ---
Talk to one they want to wear it. It guarantees that they are not looked at simply as sex objects and the covering up reserves them to be seen by only their husbands who love them and Allah who loves them. This Western society has taught women empowering comes by dressing so that men will not look at you as people but as sex objects. Feel free to add on Ibrahim or anyone else.
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Exactly. The big lie being passed around is that Muslim women are oppressed and being forced to wear the hijab. If that is true, then how do you explain 5 million Muslim women inside America who willfully wear their traditional Islamic dress?
Not to mention, hardly any of the Muslim countries force their women to wear hijab. Infact, the only one I can think of now is Saudi Arabia, and that's only in a few of the cities of Saudi Arabia.
It's all just propaganda against Islam.
Don Rizzle:
yes but you can't deny muslim women are oppressed and have no where near the same rights as muslim men. if they wear it on their free will fine but u also can't deny the pressure put on them to stay covered up even if there is no law of the land to do so. The thing that always makes me wonder is you see them in the hot countries with only their eyes in view and they must be so hot inside there it must be almost unbarable
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