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The Quran's mandate to lower one's gaze applied to both men and women. Since there is also a mandate to cover adornments, ornaments, and beauty, the hijab helps women to meet this requirement. Hair may indeed be worn to impress bosses or colleagues or peers, or it may be used to seduce. The point is that it not be used to make any impression or point because it distracts us and others from God and encourages a focus on egotistical interests. It needn't be used to seduce, but in many cases it has been. It suffices that it is often used in ways that take us farther away from God. This is often true with many physical aspects of our body. A very athletic woman who desires to wear shorts to show off her athletic legs, only to be admired by her workout group is still placing importance on egotistical interests based on appearance or beauty. This is still not modesty.

Islam never purported to advance linear equality between men and women. Islam advances justice between men and women to promote a moral society. Men ARE different from women. As such, their rights and responsibilities will differ. Western society deems this shameful because it can only see justice as based on linear equality. One can not evaluate Islamic guidelines and law on western ideology; they are based on entirely different principles.

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You again wrongly assume the worst motives, in this case about our woman athlete, and your assumptions again lead to restricting women's choices relative to men's. An athletic woman isn't necessarily "egotistical" to wear shorts. No, she wears shorts because sweats are too hot for summer running, because trailing sportswear would be caught in a bicycle or other machinery, or because you can't swim well in a burquini. Or--and this is important--she simply wants to feel the sun on her skin, get her vitamin D, and enjoy the warm rays of sun.

Others have pointed out the inequity: men are free to wear shorts. Most of us have seen the covered woman walking with the guy in shorts and the open short. Male soccer players wear shorts--but in some Islamic countries the women aren't allowed to watch them play. You can keep explaining about both sexes lowering their gazes. But hijab =/= gaze. And the hijab IS applied unequally.

I can think of so many worse "egotistical interests" than a woman's hair, and hair seems low on the list. Sports cars, McMansions, the bride's flashy gold jewelry at Muslim weddings, anything really showy. None of this is haram so long as the prescribed percentage is given to charity.

Finally, the rules promote an *Islamic* idea of morals. Many of us prioritize other moral values above a woman's purity.[/quote]

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