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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guess what guys, a religious observance can be a very real way for someone to feel closer to God AND it can ultimately have a negative impact on women and the society at large.  I have no doubt that women who wear the hijab feel that they are glorifying God when they do so.  HOWEVER, it is still fair to look at the practice critically and determine that it ultimately undermines women.  Just go to a country where most of the women wear hijab and see how it works for yourself.  I have.

People in the Muslim world have been scared to criticize any religious practice no matter how backwards it seemed to them personally for a long, long time.  That's how we have so many Muslims who joined extremist mosques.  That's why so many countries went from almost no women wearing hijab, to some women wearing hijab, to most women wearing hijab, to women taking on more extreme forms of covering up like the niqab, which was unknown decades ago.  It was an evolution that involved the silencing of more moderate Muslims.  Read any modern history of the region.  And the people putting forward THEIR version of Islam had a lot of money, courtesy of US, to push their ideas.  It's about DAMN TIME that someone question these practices and disagree with them.[/quote]
You can disagree with this all you want, but it's not your business what other women decide to do with their bodies. Not your business when they expose it, not your business when they cover it.[/quote]

It absolutely is my business.  It is my business when I go to the country where my parents where born, where my family still lives, and am harassed and yelled at in the street because men have internalized the idea that women are the ones responsible for their arousal, and that a woman who is not covered is "asking" for it.  It is my business that in a place where my mother used to walk about in a miniskirt without being bothered, no women, veiled or not, can walk without being bothered.  It is my business when my daughter see families where the woman is dressed head to toe in a tent and the man is in shorts, looking comfy.  What should I tell her about this?  What message is that sending to other women, to young kids?  Deny it all you want, but our clothes send a powerful message to the people around us.  The way we dress is a powerful form of self-expression, and the article is arguing that in this instance, it is sending a political message, not just a personal religious one.  I agree with the article because it reflects what I have seen and read.  You can disagree all you want.[/quote]

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