Women Oppressed??..?

Question

"Now I want you to realise that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonours his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonours her head-it is just as though her head were shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head. A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man."
1 Corinthians

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/re/prejudice/chrev3.shtml

This is the Christian Belief but the media never says that Christianity opresses women

so why is it that when muslim women choose to cover their hair they are thought of as oppressd??

When muslims decide to wear scarves, it is a choice that they have made from the heart. The problem is, EVERYONE LOVES TO ASSUME.. they love to assume that women in Islam are forced to cover up!! They need to understand the religion before discriminating against us..

Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to enquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.
1 Corinthians 14:34-35

Answer 1

politicians, media, and many other arrogant and selfish people are the ones who portray Islam like that, they want the people to believe what THEY want them to believe... barely anything to do with the truth ofcourse....

at the end of the day, who are the ones benefiting from all of this?
think about it...

Answer 2

If they're Muslim, then why would they be following a Christian belief? Very few Christians follow the whole head-covering-hair-cutting edict. So very few Christians would be "oppressed," if you consider hair-covering oppressive.

I don't know that most Muslim women "choose" to cover their hair, any more than people in other religions choose to do the doctrinal mandates of their particular groups. Basically, if you're gonna be in a group, you have to conform, at least enough that you don't get nailed by some cultural police. The idea of oppression is probably that most Christians don't do the hair cover, and wouldn't unless they were forced to, so they assume Muslims are forced to, and that seems oppressive. It's pretty dang hot in a lot of countries with big Muslim populations, and I'd hate to have to walk around all covered up. Some of it is just cultural differences. I don't know that the head covering is all that oppressive, but taken along with some other things that cult-y pseudo-Muslim types require (I'm talking Taliban types and super-conservative anti-woman Muslim clerics) it's just another thing that sucks about the religion. Most Muslims are pretty laid-back and not particularly oppressive people, but they're often stuck in bad situations under fanatical religious leaders and it kinda makes them look worse by association. Some people in Muslim-led countries aren't even religious, but they get stuck doing certain things just because their leaders are fanatical. So, yeah, it would definitely be oppressive if a woman was forced to do something that wasn't in her religion (or atheism.) In that case, it's a government forcing something on unwilling participants.

Some Muslim women are oppressed. The head covering is such a visible symbol of Islam, that it becomes a symbol of oppression because it represents an oppressed Muslim woman. Is the head covering itself oppressive? No, probably not very.

Answer 3

Honey, Christianity and Islam are HUGE on oppressing women. A lot of the women in these religions are too blind to see it, but eventually will once their husband starts beating them and the church does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about it. I have had a lot of friends in this type of situation--most of the time the kids are being abused too, because the children and the wife are the "Man's" property (Head of the Household).

This is also why so many Christians and their organizations are completely OBSESSED with women's bodies (abortion, contraception, and stem cell research) and women's rights (gay marriage, lifestyle choices, parenting choices), and will stop at nothing to change existing rational laws.

Answer 4

i think of that's truer to declare all of society oppressed women persons alongside with the ladies persons themselves through fact they knew no longer the rest. and girls persons have been nevertheless earning much less pay for doing the comparable activity as adult men up until the Sixties(?) a great number of persons had terrible lives interior the previous, once you may desire to spend 12 hours an afternoon digging ditches for a pittance or giving start to fifteen little ones the final element you gave a rat's approximately is balloting for women persons's rights.

Answer 5

which bible are you quoting?
We in church have up to about the early 1960's had to cover our head in church with a caplet, a veil or a hat and we didn't feel opressed, in fact we did it out of respect.
I don't know what jewish women are required to do, but it seems the opposite with them, the men wear like caplets.
Seems to me each religion (or nationality, or traditon) does their own thing.

Muslims read the Koran which teachings are different. If they were the same as ours we all would get along.

I think "oppression" has more to do with the women, according to the Koran, not being able to do certain things by tradition.

Answer 6

That is funny you should mention this. I have been thinking a lot about this actually. Spending too much time...I found this website...http://www.prayercoverings.com/

Take the mennonite and the amish...they do it because the bible says to. Some christian women cover too and wear modest clothing because the bible says too. It's so literal! You don't even have to read between the lines.

Answer 7

Because men forcing women to be a certain way is oppression... If a woman chooses to do so for cultural reasons that is up to her, but the beginnings of those reasons, if it was enforced and punishable if disobeyed, stems from earlier oppression of women...

If Christianity had that kind of oppression as well...it is clearly not one that is allowed to be enforced any longer.

Answer 8

It isn't just about covering the head or wearing a sack cloth.

There's a woman about to be hung for adultery in the middle east and another woman that was going to be stoned for being raped. There are thousands of women being murdered by their male relatives(honor killings)

There's much, much more to the opression than wearing the hijab.

Answer 9

Before 1860, there wasn't a single book written against the women and their rights in Islam.

You know the reason why?

Answer 10

Maybe because most Christian women don't cover their heads.