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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not OP but I do have a question in case anyone knows - in Saudi Arabia the women wear black and in [b]Iran the women wear blue[/b].  Why don't women in Saudi Arabia wear blue?  Wouldn't in be cooler? Is the color dictated by the government?[/quote]

Do you mean in Afghanistan?

In Saudi, Saudi women must wear black niquab (only eyes showing).   Foreign women can wear any type of headscarf, but they also risk harassment if dressed a lot differently.

In Iran, women are required to wear headscarves, but not of a certain color.   You often see much more hair peeking out in Iran, too.

In Afghanistan, women were required to wear a burqa under the Taliban, and they are generally blue.  It wards off the evil eye.   Now you will see women wearing regular head scarves, but many still wear the burqa for safety.[/quote]

Is there any reason why a woman would wear the head to toe, face covered, heavy black fabric Saudi outfit here in the US during a hot humid summer day?

Do you think it is a religious thing at this point or a family/father/husband control thing?

I saw two separate young women out like this during the heat wave and it just made me want to cry for them.

I don't feel that way at all about the hajib, but the full coverage with only a tiny rectangle of eyes showing is so [b]very different and repressive[/b].[/quote]

Might look that way to you, and those same women might look at you and feel the same way about how you dress... The women I know who dress that way do it because they  chose to, not because of some "family/father/husband control thing". I personally don't wear the niqab but do have a few niqabs  and have worn them for different reasons. Sometimes, I was just lazy and it was easy to put on a  full Jilbab, put the niqab on your face , go run a quick errand and call it a day, nothing much, nothing less  :P [/quote]

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