why nuns cover them hair although it is not a lovely thing for musllim women?

Answer 1

Hmm...good question...i wonder why Muslims period are looked down upon. Sad that we can't express our faith, as Muslims.

Answer 2

Nuns, were told by the Vatican council that wearing habits is not mandatory anymore many years ago(at least 25 years).
In some areas, some congregations still retain them by choice.
I think that there is the easy recognizability factor. That is always a good reason.
As for muslim women doing the same, the practice still remains to this day in certain areas of the world.
Wearing headgear is always individual preference. Remember the past few years when all the boys wore the baseball caps ? visor part in the back? Not a lovely thing either?

Answer 3

It is a very interesting thing, IMO, that while there are other religious women who adopt very modest dress (Amish, traditional Quakers, etc.) and of course there's the traditional covering of the hair by nuns, these things don't seem to produce the public outcry of "oppression of women" that the Muslim hijab does.

I've actually heard people say that the hijab should be outlawed in the United States. Are we also going to go into Amish communities and rip the bonnets off of the women there?


While it may be true that in other countries Muslim women have no choice but to wear the hijab or burka, in the United States it's a matter of choice.

This is a thing that troubles me deeply about some fellow liberals I know...that they don't understand that true liberalism is this: make the range or allowable choice as wide as possible within the social constructs required for a civil society...and then, if people choose to not take advantage of some of what is allowed...that's just fine. If people choose to be more modest, or more restrictive of themselves, we allow that. We don't insist that they watch MTV or American Idol, we don't insist that they vote, we don't insist that they use contraceptives...and so on.

This particular issue about the hijab points out to me, at least, that the real issue here is NOT the oppression of women (at least in the U.S.) but a distrust of Muslims, and a misplaced drive to FORCE them to assimilate in ways that we have no business asking them to, unless we're going to be consistent about it and insist that Mennonites and Quakers assimilate in similar ways.


Further, the Quran has modesty requirements for pious MEN, too.

Answer 4

Because they shave their heads