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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are free to opine. Whether a woman is a virgin is not determined by the hijab and I think we all know how that.

Women are fighting for their right to wear hijab or niqab is France and Canada. Many women opt to wear hijab here in the US.

I can tell you my father never once asked me to wear hijab. My mother never wore it. I chose to wear it. I only stopped after I worried for my safety.

But keep imagining your explanations if it helps you to cope with seeing veiled Muslims.

Not sure why what we Muslims wear should cause you such agitation to provoke a 23 page thread. Let us be.[/quote]

Here is my personal agitation (I can't speak for other pps)- my parents grew up in a Muslim country as part of a Christian minority.  Their childhoods, by most measures, were fairly idyllic.  At that time most people had adopted Western clothing.  The world was changing very quickly.  My parents did not generally feel like they were "outsiders" or "others" and the society they grew up in had many of the positive attributes of the Arab world that we no longer really hear about- close family ties, generosity, a community where people, Christian and Muslim, take care of one another.  My great-grandfather was actually the elder (kind of like the mayor) of a village that had both Muslims and Christians.

Then something happened.  People began to practice Islam in a new way.  Men began to go to the Gulf for work, and would come home with a new attitude.  Women began to wear the veil, men began to wear long beards.  Now my mother was easily identifiable as a member of a minority.  People began to act a little different towards them.  My parents emigrated to America.  A few years later, Islamic extremists killed many of the Christians and made an attempt on a relative's life, in the same village where my great-grandfather had once been the mayor.  Everyone in our family left. There are no minorities there now.  My parents had been friendly with Muslims they met in America, but after that were merely polite and kept their interactions brief.

So when I see women in hijab, I see a bad omen.  I see a version of Islam that is from Saudi and the Gulf, a place I have no good feelings about.

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I am sorry for your family's experience. There is good and bad in every country and every religion. There are extremist views that have given birth to intolerance and its unfortunate that these views are confused for the religion itself. [/quote]

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