(June 28, 2013 at 10:05 am)Kim Wrote:So your one sister would say she is more devout than your other because she doesn't wear the full coverup? Isn't it obvious how messed up that is? Smug, I am better than you feelings, ick. It's not that anyone is forcing her, it's the fact she believes it places herself above others and the positive social reinforcement that gives her that I find so distasteful.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.
Weird, random aside to anyone willing to discuss. Do male to female, Muslim transvestites or transexuals want to wear the coverups? Would anyone notice? How often does this possibly occur?
