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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What may have become offensive to some Muslims on this thread is some non-Muslims agreeing with the Muslim authors of the article in the OP that Islam does not call for women to wear a hijab.  The Quranic verse used to justify the hijab as an Islamic requirement has been stretched way beyond its context with contorted translations of the Arabic.

There is simply no command in the Quran for women to cover their hair, but there is certainly one to cover their breasts.

The trend towards a very narrow view of Islam that hyperfocuses on sexuality instead of spirituality and good deeds, as it originally did, is very disturbing.  For better or for worse the hijab has become a symbol of that unfortunate development.

That said, I would defend to the death the right of a woman in the U.S. to wear a hijab no matter how brainwashed or misguided or, indeed, however arrogant, tiresome, or unpleasant she may be.[/quote]

Was the issue that the Quran does not mandate the hijab or was it that hijab is unimportant as part of modesty? [/quote]

The Quran not only does not mandate the hijab, it has nothing to say about women covering their hair.  The Quran does say something about modesty--covering the breasts--so that would seem an important element in Islamic modesty as, indeed, it is in Western modesty.  The hijab, then, has nothing to do with Islamic modesty.  That does not rule out local or regional cultural mores that may view head coverings as a form of modesty.[/quote]

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