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First of all I would like to greet everyone as I post my first reply in this forum!
Second of all I want to tell you guys that I have found the level of expected western athiest ignorance on these forums towards islam and hence I am taking it upon myself to clear this cloud of stereotypes and lack of understanding.
As to the matter of this topic here are the facts in points:
1) Islam requires a woman to wear a head scarf and wear decent clothes (cover her arms, legs and body) this doesn't mean they should wear a nazguls' costume in the process. I will tell you the origin of that latter on.
2) Not wearing a head scarf after adulthood is sinful but it mustn't be enforced by ANYONE on the woman. A husband should though as his wife to wear it only to absolve himself from blame before god.
3) the nazgul costume is a tradition dating back before islam in the arab penincella and then made its way to the religious tradition falsely. But god didn't ask for it.

Don't blame islam for the follies of muslims.

Well lucky for you I grew up in a muslim country. Try working out why I don't even want to waste a second of my life reading the Qur'an.

I don't give a fuck what the Qur'an says, because anyone can interpret it to mean anything. If muslims do things certain ways, that's what I judge them by. I have plenty of muslim friends who are nice people and don't do these things, I don't hold them to what others believe in. But if they say they do something for their religion, I take their word for it. So if someone does stupid things and say they do it for their religion, they did it for their religion.