Try to follow me here, because we have a circular problem.
The Quran and Sunnah has many references to covering up your "ornaments" and just "covering" up in general and to be "modest" and not provocative.
In normal socities, a woman who has covered up everything but her face and ankles is not provocative to anyone because there are plenty of other woman who dress normally or provocatively, and thus gain the attentions of men with normal natural desires.
So its the context thats important. A woman with a bikini would appear to be a self righteous prude in a nudist colony.
Now consider Islamic communities where woman are covered up in various ways. Men have sexual needs. Its part of their natural make-up. Where they cannot fixate on "breasts", cause they are covered up, they will fixate on the next thing. "Hair" for example can all of a sudden arouse! Thus the hair must be covered, and thus men fixate on the next thing...where does it stop? The Taliban had it right. Yes?
2007-01-30
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