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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] How do you know these women were all "as Muslim as can be" as opposed to, say, atheist communists? Maybe they never wanted to cover, and they had a brief period under the Russian proxies when they didn't have to cover. The Taliban came in and the burkas returned for everybody, religious or not.[/quote] The Taliban have nothing to do with Islam. If full covering was about Islam, women would have remained fully covered in Afganistan from the day the country went Muslim. How do YOU know they were atheist communists?[/quote] How many Christian niqabis are there? Or Hindu? Some Christian women dress "more" modestly than others, some religious women wear headscarvew, etc. How many non-Muslim women wear a burka or niqab (besides Muslima's friend who ho likes the way they look)?[/quote] Oh boy- You know, the burqa and niqab are pre-Islamic right? Please tell me that you know that! [quote]It is sometimes alleged that the face-veil was originally part of women's dress among certain classes in the Byzantine Empire and was adopted into Muslim culture during the Arab conquest of the Middle East. However, although Byzantine art before Islam commonly depicts women with veiled heads or covered hair, it does not depict women with veiled faces. In addition, the Greek geographer Strabo, writing in the first century AD, refers to some Persian women veiling their faces[not in citation given] and the early third-century Christian writer Tertullian clearly refers in his treatise The Veiling of Virgins to some pagan women of "Arabia" wearing a veil that covers not only their head but also the entire face. Clement of Alexandria commends the contemporary use of face coverings. There are also two Biblical references to the employment of covering face veils in Genesis 38.14 and Genesis 24.65, by Tamar and by Rebekah, Jacob and Abraham's daughters-in-law respectively. These primary sources show that some women in Egypt, Arabia, Canaan and Persia veiled their faces long before Islam. In the case of Tamar, the Biblical text,'When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face' indicates customary, if not sacral, use of the face veil to accentuate rather than disguise her sexuality.[/quote][/quote]
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