For an increasing minority of Muslim women is wearing full face veil a kind of passive aggression?

Question

Is it perhaps a way of showing contempt for the rest of us who are non-Muslim.

Though it's true some women do choose to wear the full veil most are coerced by their husbands and male relatives, we know it is not a religious requirement , the fact is some muslim women are now taking to wearing the veil to be deliberately provocative, it's passive aggression isn't it?

Reply to Lady Lyon:
In UK Muslim girls whose mothers have never worn the veil are increasingly choosing to do so, so that kind of quashes the traditional custom excuse.

Reply to isildurs_...:
Am I being passively aggressive asking provocative questions?...Yes partly and notice you can't see my face either. I am trying to get a clearer picture of why people want hide their faces and hinder communication...because it certainly does that.

Answer 1

Its cultural identity. trust me, im a sociologist. :D

Whether or not it is an old custom or just started yesterday. Is a goth wearing black clothes and pale face-paint (in order to make themselves different and assert their own culture) passive agressive? would you say that a little old lady wearing heather tweed and scone-shoes (also fitting into their their own sub-culture) was being passive aggressive? would you say that a black man wearing his hair in an afro or in corn-rows (thusly identifying himslef with his culture) is being passive agressive?

Some would say that asking provocotive questions on a provocotice subject was passive agressive though ... i'm not one of them of course. Provocotive questions are the best kind :)

EDIT: Please dont think i'm calling you passive agressive. i merely suggest that people could see the question as being so using the definitions you outlined.
To counter: Again, make-up can be seen as hiding one's true face. Top make up brands are usually the top brands because they "cover up" but I wouldn't call wearing it a passive agressive attack or say that it was showing contempt for those that didnt wear make-up. I'd call it cultural 'decoration'.
Again i'm thinking mainly within the gothic subculture. The pale faces the black eyes etc... to some this might be seen as an attempt hinder communication but it is a way of expressing ones identity. Any attempt to get rid of this kind of cultural freedom in society (I'm not suggesting you are trying to do this, but Jack Straw's 'veil' debate certainly did) can be seen as a backward step in political and social development.

Answer 2

I think that it`s a form of contempt of everything western. I think it`s hypocritical though to express a preference to want to live here but then say I don`t agree with your way of life. There must be health and safety issues with these stupid things as well especially when driving. I saw a woman wearing a veil in Sainsburys the other day, and to look at the ingredients in a tub of margerine she had to hold it up to eye level as she couldn`t see it glancing downwards.

Answer 3

I don't know. Is wearing a cross a form of passive aggression or a way to show contempt for non-christians?

I don't consider my wearing a Thor's Hammer a form of passive aggression or a way to show contempt for non-Asatruar.

It's just another religious symbol, but in the form of dress. Like a pentecostal woman's skirt or dress.

~Morg~

Answer 4

I don't think that's true, I think its empowering, my cousin wears the veil and she does so out of choice, no other member of our family wears the veil and only one other cousin wears the Hijab (head scarf with face showing.) It empowers her and makes her proud to be who she is.

In Islam the is a lot of emphasis put on your intentions. If a Muslim woman was to wear the veil for the reason you have suggested she would be doing it for entirely the wrong reason, and therefore she should not be wearing it. The reason is entirely personal.

Answer 5

I don't think so it is just their custom, and one they are comfortable with. Much in the same way it is comfortable for ust to where jeans. Why can't we let people who are different in their ways be as long as they are a positive contributor to our society and not a terrorist?

Answer 6

I have no idea what the person wearing thinks, but I certainly find the niqab disconcerting to put it mildly.

Answer 7

it's so the guy (brother,husband,uncle) can't tell or see who he is banging....
besides a lot of those hairlipped pigs should cover-up