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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This discussion is a great example of white neocolonialism running amok, concerned white women wringing their hands over how to transform uncultured natives.

Have any of you ever asked a living, breathing, woman why she wears a headscarf?[/quote]

The Wahabis are the neocolonialist here, PP. Study up on your Middle East history. The Wahhabis, using KSA petrol bucks, have been pushing the niqab on many middle eastern communities where it didn't exist several decades ago.[/quote]
Don't need to - grew up in a Muslim-majority area, women always covered their hair, not current turtle-hijab style, but head always covered.[/quote]

It's very likely that many had strands of hair showing and if a woman chose not to veil, she didn't get all that much harassment from men or a morals police, right?

Now we have the turtle-hijab, the niqab covering the face, and a lot more societal pressure to veil.

The point PPs have been making is that women's choices have been narrowing and going backwards. For which we can thank the Wahhabis and the fundamentalists driving the ideologies behind the Taliban, Daesh (talk about your neo-colonialists!) and more. In fact, morals police and the like are a type of moral imperialism against women, including those of other faiths, who would prefer not to veil - don't you think?[/quote]
Lots of hair showing but everyone wore a headscarf.  It wasn't optional.[/quote]

That's the point, isn't it. Now every strand of hair has to be covered by a turtle hijab (at least; in some places more) or the woman faces censure from those around her. So many Muslim societies have moved, over the past few decades, to make the showing of a few strands of hair an issue of piety--or really, lack thereof. Yet the Quran is unclear about covering hair.

Women's hair has become an ideological battleground, despite Quranic ambivalence on the subject. It's hard to argue that this hasn't restricted choice - for women who want a loose scarf (and of course women in ISIS-controlled territories who oppose the extremes mandated there) or even no scarf at all.[/quote]

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