Quote:Was your sister raised Muslim? I'm guessing yes, as you say you are from Kuwait. How is that anything other than conforming to a cultural norm? Where is the choice in wearing a full body coverup, when failure to do so leads to being rejected or being thought of and treated as unfaithful to the belief system? And the judging of other women, including Muslim women, who do not cover themselves fully... Believing oneself better or more pious, I don't know, it seems like martyrdom.
Yes we were all raised in a very conservative environment. Yet I turned atheist and she is a very devout Muslim. My other sister is also Muslim but doesn't wear "nikab" but rather wears the head scarf. She has complete freedom to remove it (no one is forcing her now), but she wants to conform to what everyone is expecting. It is more of a social pressure than anything else I believe for most cases. The point I want to make is that in some cases, and they're not a few, women do make this choice and stick by it by their own free will.
