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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't read it that way at all. The Quran talks about overall modesty, and not simply in terms of covering breasts. It asks women (and women) to lower gazes. It asks to cover adornments/ornaments/beauty. This is quite different from western standards. So it certainly isn't limiting modesty to covering breasts. In fact, the spirit of the Quranic text seems to be broader than that when explaining modesty.

Now I can see that if a woman wears her hair like Leila Ahmed, short, cropped, uncombed, uncolored, greying, and easy to disregard, then perhaps it's not [b]being used to draw attention. [/b]But otherwise, it just makes no sense that God would be okay with the use of [b]hair to attract men.[/b][/quote]

Why do you keep saying that women wear their hair "to attract men"? That's simply not the case for most women in the US. I wear my hair shoulder-length and brush it to present a professional, put-together look at work and when I'm interacting with others at stores and so on. My hair doesn't tell people I'm looking to get picked up, or that I see my hair as something shameful that needs to be hidden--my hair sends the message that I'm confident and put-together.[/quote]

Perhaps not for the married,middle aged mother of three, but for most women, particularly younger women and single women, hair is often used to beautify themselves.[/quote]

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