RE: The hijab (etc) is immodest
January 24, 2020 at 4:46 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2020 at 5:00 am by Belacqua.)
(January 24, 2020 at 3:01 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(January 23, 2020 at 10:00 pm)Belacqua Wrote: In the US, for example, a woman who decided to go naked from the waist down at the supermarket would be chastised.
As do men, but not if they go to some other places like a nudist beach, while women in Muslim countries don't have that kind of freedom and must be covered all the time everywhere.
I have said a couple of times now that rules for modesty differ from place to place. Nude beaches are not the same as supermarkets.
What you say about Muslim countries is oversimple. It's normal in some Muslim countries, but not in others, that women must be "covered all the time everywhere," when they are not at home. You perceive this to be a lack of freedom. They perceive it to be a normal sense of modesty.
Hijabs are banned in Tajikistan, a Muslim country, and in government offices in Tunisia, also Muslim. They were banned at Turkish universities until very recently. Standards vary widely among Muslim countries. Saudi Arabia is strict and may require a full burqa. Other countries think a simple headscarf is enough. Peter Hitchens has written about his travels in various Muslim countries, and how he saw many women who had the headscarf pushed so far back as to make it meaningless, and did so with impunity. When the US can refrain from overthrowing a Muslim country's secular leadership, standards seem to loosen.
Ilhan Omar continues to wear a scarf, while her teenage daughter doesn't. Do you think that Omar lacks freedom? Or is this a choice she makes?