Islam IS the true religion of humanity.

[KichigaiNeko]

Why is it that people look at this islamic female clothing issue and see repression?
I see vanity and survivability... if the people we're discussing live in the desert or some very hot place of the planet...

from http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/afric...areg/6.htm:

What clothes work best in the desert?

Bare skin burns in the hot desert sun. For protection, the Tuareg wear layers of loose-fitting cotton clothes. The layers of cloth keep sweat close to the body. This makes the sweat evaporate more slowly, conserving moisture and keeping the body cooler.

Men wear loose-fitting shirts and pants under large indigo robes like the one seen in the photograph. Women almost always wear two wrappers, long pieces of cloth worn like skirts around their waists. On top, they often wear two blouses. Over the entire ensemble they wear large indigo head cloths.

See what happens when you leave your skin in the sun. This is the face of a trucker who managed to keep half of his face in the shadow, while the other half got sun:


Women, being vain and all, wishing to maintain their faces as pretty as possible for as long as possible must have covered their faces during the daytime, when outside.
Men would have done this too, but heck, not as much...

A beauty practice becomes imbued in the culture. The original reason for that practice gets lost as it spreads to other parts of the world, where that reason no longer applies so much.

And all the while, the reasons for wearing those clothes were morphed to something else... something that made some sense, if you didn't think too much about it...

Religions embed it in their rules... and people keep spreading that practice to places where it makes even less sense, like the UK.


This stinks of the same mental mechanics that turned pork into some forbidden food.

The question goes begging...."Why cover up in cool temperate climates"?