If Muslim women are required to cover ther faces ...why don't they have a roll of flesh or a contiguous ligament like a foreskin round their neck? this could be raised or lowered like a natural extra-long polo-neck sweater depending on whose company they are in.
Maybe women could be genetically engineered to have such an addition.
Personally I don't think women should be required by religion or by tradition nor by their menfolk to cover their faces, it is a negation of any woman required to cover up she loses any identity...and it is an implicit rejection of those around them.
2006-10-09 01:45:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Reply to Luv peace and laila, if this is the case don't you think you need to get that message out into the world a whole lot more, and when muslims make a big fuss about covering their faces shouldn't you exopose them as the phoneys they are and tell them to uncover.
2006-10-09 01:49:29 · update #1
I'm imagining something like a snorkel-parka as we call them in UK.
2006-10-09 01:53:12 · update #2
Reply to macguyver:
Exactly, if they had been born with a natural covering over their head you can bet there would be a demand to have it cut off...much as we see happens to the menfolk.
2006-10-09 01:55:45 · update #3
Reply to mido:
Yes, possibly I do know better what they should wear than they do themselves...sometimes people get it wrong.
2006-10-09 02:00:55 · update #4
Reply to jobsdun:
I'm assuming they would bathe regularly like most people do or should anyway.
2006-10-09 02:03:11 · update #5
Whether or not it is "required" by the Qur'an is subject to interpretation. Just as there are those who interpret the Christian Bible to prohibit commerce on Sunday, there are those (individuals and governments) who compel through statute, threat, or force, the wear of the niqab.
What I find ironic about this "requirement" are the lengths to which adherents to this "habit" (not in a nun-pun sort of way) will go to justify it and the circular logic of their arguments.
They claim that it is to "protect the 'believing woman's' modesty" and to protect them "from the lustful gaze of men". However if Islam's true intent were to protect them "from the lustful gaze of men", wouldn't women be better served by a Quranic requirement that men to keep their "lustful gazes" to themselves?
That's like passing a law that says if you buy a new car you have to keep it covered with a tarp so that you don't "encourage" someone to steal it. Hold the individual committing the offense (or offensive behavior) responsible for their actions, not the victim.
Consider this quote from Dr. Ibrahim B. Syed, Ph.D: "One of the verses in the Quran protects a woman's fundamental rights. Verse 59 of Surah Al-Ahzaab reads: 'O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when outside) : so that they should be known (as such) and not molested'."
So if "believing women" need to be covered when outside of their homes in order to "be identified" and as such not to be molested, then that infers that it is acceptable to molest, or otherwise harass those that are not believing women?
Again, if the requirement were levied on the men not to molest, or otherwise harass all women, regardless of their state of dress, the woman's "fundamental rights" would truly be protected. Because their fundamental right is not to be free to cover themselves from head to toe, but rather to be safe in their persons, to be entitled to treatment, standing and rights, equal to that of their male counterparts.
I'll believe that Islam protects women and treats them equally when:
a. Their testimony is considered equal to a man's.
b. They can divorce their husbands with equal ease.
c. They can have as many husbands as husbands can have wives.
Until that time, I'm not buying it...
2006-10-09 02:32:55 · answer #1 · answered by elars1989 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It just proves that Islamic women don't have any value or significants in life other than to be a play toy and sex slave to their men, because Why would God want to have his creation covered up, only unless they think He is not perfect.
Its amazing how others here answering this question can be so obviously defensive about something that is a reality and fact.
2006-10-09 09:00:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do your research. Women are not required to cover their faces in Islam. It's a freedom of choice. For God's sake..enough with the propoganda.
2006-10-09 08:46:49 · answer #3 · answered by Luv Peace 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Women don't have to cover there faces
2006-10-09 08:46:49 · answer #4 · answered by Laila 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God figured He would need to spend His time and effort constructing one to go over your whole head.
2006-10-09 08:48:03 · answer #5 · answered by annie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you are wrong, Islam does not want women to cover up their faces, they can show their faces and hands.
2006-10-09 08:51:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
May God protect you from you.
Reported again
Peace and Blessings,
Salim
2006-10-09 08:50:43 · answer #7 · answered by إمام سليم چشتي 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
pmsl, but imagine the amount of cheese this head skin would accumulate
2006-10-09 09:00:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God should have given you a brain, for a start.
2006-10-09 08:46:22 · answer #9 · answered by citrusy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you think you know better than them what should they wear and what they shouldn't?
It's their life and their choice so keep your toungue in your mouth and stop harassing.
2006-10-09 08:57:41 · answer #10 · answered by mido 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋