People compain then they see muslium women wearing veils, but why can't a man?

Question

wear a hat or cap in church, yet women are allowed to?

Answer 1

Yes, there is a lot of unfairness when it comes to men/women clothing (not quite sure what the Muslim women veil complaint is about though).
But back to men/women clothing.
A woman can wear a sleeveless dress in an office environment--could you imagine what would happen if a man came to work in his office job in a sleeveless shirt?
Or why can women wear men's clothing (holy cow, even the boxer shorts now-a-days) and it is perfectly acceptable. Yet if a man wears women's clothing he is considered a fruitcake.
Or women can wear makeup or not wear makeup--either is o.k. but if a man wears makeup (actors are the exception) he would be considered to have some real issues.

The list could go on and on.

Answer 2

Because in the Bible, it's said that women should have their heads covered and men shouldn't. (1 Corinthians 11:3-16) Not all churches take that literally.

I do agree there's hypocrisy--if Christian women can wear hats on Sundays, surely Muslim women can wear veils every day without a problem.

Also, I think people are freaked out by the "exoticness" of hijab and Islam, never mind the fact that I'm not the only redneck girl who grew up seeing women put on "hijab" to cover up their rollers if they had to go out. Hell, I put on "hijab" if my highlights go green in the pool, but I'm white, so that's okay...right?

Answer 3

Veil is an Islam rule, hats are no rule from any religion.

Answer 4

di you met some day a christian sister in church?do es she waering some how like veil or some thing covering her body and her hair too?thats clothes type was mary (jesus mother) clothes,muslim man can cover his head by cap.

Answer 5

it's not a ? of allowing, they are required to, so that men will not consider them sexually attractive. It's a way of SUPRESSING women, not allowing them an expression...get your facts straight, open a book about the subject...i.e beyond the veil is one such book

Answer 6

I'm sorry, but I don't see the connection between the two halves of your question.

Answer 7

because there is no religion promoting men doing that type of stuff.

Answer 8

I thought muslim men were supposed to wear beards?

Answer 9

ok i think i got ur question..u wanna know y women can wear a veil( muslim)..but why cant a man wear hat or cap in churh?..is that ur question?

ok...

what is a veil?
Veils are articles of clothing, worn almost exclusively by women, which cover some part of the head or face.


why women wear veil ( the history)
First recorded instance of veiling for women is recorded in an Assyrian legal text from the 13th century BC which restricted its use to noble women and forbade prostitutes and common women from adopting it. Greek texts have also spoken of veiling and seclusion of women being practiced among the Persian elite and statues from Persepolis depict women both veiled and unveiled, and it seems to be regarded as an attribute of higher status.

For many centuries, until around 1175, Anglo-Saxon and then Anglo-Norman women, with the exception of young unmarried girls, wore veils that entirely covered their hair, and often their necks up to their chins. Only in the Tudor period (1485), when hoods became increasingly popular, veils of this type became less common.

For centuries, women have worn sheer veils, but only under certain circumstances. Sometimes a veil of this type was draped over and pinned to the bonnet or hat of a woman in mourning, especially at the funeral and during the subsequent period of "high mourning". They would also have been used, as an alternative to a mask, as a simple method of hiding the identity of a woman who was traveling to meet a lover, or doing anything she didn't want other people to find out about. More pragmatically, veils were also sometimes worn to protect the complexion from sun and wind damage (when un-tanned skin was fashionable), or to keep dust out of a woman's face.


The religous reason
a) christian
In Judaism and Christianity the concept of covering the head was associated with propriety and can be witnessed in all depictions of Mary the Mother of Christ, and was a common practice with Church-going women until the 1960's.

ok now we get to your question.
Prior to the Second Vatican Council, it was customary in most places for women to wear a head covering in the form of a scarf, cap, veil or hat when entering a church, just as it was and is still customary for men to remove their hat as a sign of respect. One reason for this practice is a passage from 1 Corinthians 11 where St. Paul writes:

4 Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered brings shame upon his head. 5 But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled brings shame upon her head, for it is one and the same thing as if she had had her head shaved. 6 For if a woman does not have her head veiled, she may as well have her hair cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should wear a veil. 7 A man, on the other hand, should not cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. 8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; 9 nor was man created for woman, but woman for man; 10 for this reason a woman should have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.(New American Bible translation)

While the practice is not common in the US, this custom is practised to different degrees in different cultures. Mantillas are still worn by many Spanish and Latina women during religious ceremonies and by some Catholic women of other cultures. Often this is now regarded more as a matter of etiquette, courtesy, tradition or fashionable elegance than of religion.

The wearing of a head covering (which could be a veil or a hat) was mandated by the Code of Canon Law of 1917: "mulieres autem, capite cooperto et modeste vestitae, maxime *** ad mensam Dominicam accedunt."[1] This translates roughly to "But women [assist at church] with heads covered and modestly dressed, especially when they approach the Lord's table." The practice had fallen out of use in most places by the 1970s, and the canon does not appear in the 1983 code - it is no longer enforced or expected even in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. It is still practiced, however, in many "Traditionalist Catholic" circles, ranging from those who prefer the pre-Vatican II rites for liturgy to those who deny the validity of current Catholic liturgies.

..b)and now abt muslim women veils..

Quran calls this mode of dressing "modest". Muslims, male and female, are expected to dress without exposure of intimate body parts as expressed in the Qur'an:

"Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: And Allah is well acquainted with all that they do." [24:30]
"And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms ... " [24:31]
"O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them. That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not annoyed. Allah (SWT) is ever Forgiving, Merciful." [33:59]
However, there are many different interpretations of what "modesty" requires. See the article on hijab for an extended discussion of modest dress.

Generally, most Islamic scholars agree that women are not required to wear the veil seeing as the Prophet said that the only part(s) of the woman's body that need not be covered are her face and hands. Rather, the wearing of the veil came later from Islamic fundamentalists. The history of women wearing the veil has existed in the Middle East since pre-Islamic times. It is said that the wearing of the veil was adopted as a part of Islam by religious fanatics (especially the Wahabbis of Saudi Arabia), from the pagan traditions of pre-Islamic Mecca & Persia.

ok...i think this shoul give u the answe on why muslim women wears a veil..and y men are not allowe to wear hat in a churh..read it..u will understand..