can someone who is willing to help me..pls help. its about muslims shud be able to wear watver they wnt 2 wear

Question

muslims should be able to wear whatever they want just like everybody else in this country.. everyone has the right of wearing what kind of clothes they want.--can some one expand it pls..

Answer 1

In all fairness, it's all about choice. In their religion and culture, the women are supposed to stay covered. When they come to America, they COULD throw that away, but this nation was built on retaining your culture. So while many do abandon their former beliefs on modesty and covering up, most do not. It would be the same as telling you you HAD to cover up if you went over to their country. Would you? probably not because it's not what you believe in. For those who are unhappy with it, they will change when they are willing to stand up to their fathers or husbands. Something they have the right to do in America, but not necessarily the courage.

In their country, we must look incredibly odd wearing so little just as they must look incredibly odd in your eyes. It's all a cultural difference.

Also keep in mind that the Women's Liberation movement has worked it's way into a lot of places in the world, but it can only move so fast. In a land where there is such a cultural inclination against it, it will be generations before it has full effects there if indeed it ever does happen.

Answer 2

The freedom to express ourselves, through what we wear is an intrinsic right in a democracy. The fact that the anti-muslim brigade are trying to take away that right from muslim women is dispicable. We all have the right to be different, and to look different, and the people who are being divisive and trying to create separation in this multi-cultural country, are those who object to people being different. We're all human beings, and if Jack Straw needs to see people's faces to know that, then he's got serious paranoia issues. Orthodox Jews aren't told to shave their beards, cut their ringlets and stop wearing hats, and those things are just as visible a symbol of their faith and "separateness" to non-jews as the veil is. It's racism and bigotry, and it's been created by the government to give people something to rant about, other than the mess they're making in this country and abroad. It's a diversion tactic, and a dispicable one at that.

Answer 3

Clothes have always been a matter of individual taste. People should be allowed to wear what they want, subject to it being decent and inoffensive.

I presume you are referring to whether muslim women should cover their faces or their hair. Where I live (South London) younger women tend not to wear very much when the weather's hot, but there are limits as to how much they want to be seen by unpleasant old men like me. Muslim women have the same view, they just draw the line in a different place. If they think that their hair or their faces should be seen only by their husbands, then it's no business of mine, of Jack Straw's or of the editor of the Sun.

Answer 4

no problem with what anyone wears just that when it affects their work etc.
why should muslim and sikh policeman be allowed to wear turban instead of skull caps for their own safety?
and why was it when i was in a muslim country i was aksed to coevr up? wasnt allowed to bathe topless.
I dont care how anyone dresses just hate the way everyone goes on about it? do we go on about how we wear jeans or how we like to wear a cross if we are christian, i refer back to the incident where the girl was sent home from work at heathrow for wearing a cross round her neck because it was classified as racist. But muslims are allowed to cover their faces, surely in the same context this is the same thing???? does anyone out there not agree? as a white person i feel completely victimised in my own country now.

Answer 5

Um... It's a religion. If you want to be part of the religion, you do what the religion says... It's not impeding on anyone, and it is their choice to be part of that religion. Also, not all Muslims do this. I met a Muslim woman who I never would have guessed was a Muslim. According to the Imam at her mosque, the translation from the Qu'ran means that their breasts must be covered, so as long as she has a bra on, she's meeting the guidelines.

Answer 6

I am moslem and I know for sure that moslem women must wear a veil is just a misbelief made up by islamic clerics who got the power of ruling in order to maintain their hegemony.In the time of Mohammed women were not under the pressure of wearing such stuff and they were freer.

Answer 7

I agree...as a Muslim...this country has given us the freedom that most countries do not. Everyone should have the right to wear what they wish...In Islam wearing anything like a bathing suit is prohibited...would people like it if we said they cant wear that?

Answer 8

I'm more offended by the 'kids' that wear their pants hanging down to *there* rather than some person who wishes to express their beliefs by wearing a burka (or however you spell it).
If someone is going to hit up the M's for wearing their dress, then what about the Amish, the Hasidic Jews or even Flava Flav?
YAHHHH BOYYYYY!

See how ridiculous that is?
And PS. When I see you with your pants hangin' down, yeah, that's me, I'm the person who yells out "I CAN SEE YOUR GRANNY'S PANTIES!!!!" (not you, but it might be your friend, etc).

Good luck with your question, it's a thought-provoking one for sure!

Answer 9

You are allowed to wear whatever you want. I believe freedom of speech is Amendment 1 in the Constitution.

Answer 10

no one ever said they couldnt wear what they wanted. someone suggested it would be helpful in a docter surgery if muslims wearing vales would take them of in a private room in front of a female docter and now everyone has gone crazy over it. besides only 5% of muslim women wear them.