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But how did you come to the conclusion that these two, either the man gouging his eyes out if he visually lusts or the woman wearing a head cover, mutually exclusive? Couldn't God in the Bible have required women to cover their heads AND also impose the punishment on men for looking?

In Islam, BOTH are commanded: the men need to lower their gaze around women and the woman required to dress modestly.

Looks to me that Christianity & Islam are almost identical on this point![/quote]

You need to read the actual Bible passage, and not just the astonishingly broad summary in that dawwah piece. Here's the dawwah piece again:  "8. The Bible also asks women to wear veils as in Islam {I Corinthians 11:3-10}."

Here's the actual passage from Corinthians 11:3-10: "But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven."

In other words, Paul advised women to cover their heads in church and while praying.

There's nothing in the entire New Testament about women having to wear veils in public, outside of praying. As noted earlier, the veils-in-church thing is if you think Paul's letters carry equal weight to Jesus' words. So for women who are going out in public, we go back to Jesus telling men to control their urges.

So no, Christianity and Islam are not "almost identical on this point"![/quote]

Well the Corinthians passage does describe head covering as required for prayer. However, apparently that Paul's word is quite different from Jesus seems to be debatable:

From www.biblicalreserachreports.com
Myth #5: Paul is the one who gave this command (rather than God)

This myth attacks directly at the inspiration of Scripture. This myth is often cloaked in terms like: "what Paul was saying was", "Paul was writing to address..." It makes commands in the Bible into doctrines of men. God, not Paul, is the author of 1 Corinthians. Paul was only the secretary, not the author of 1 Corinthians. The Holy Spirit told Paul what to write. Paul did not write on his own authority. "If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord" (1 Corinthians 14:37). There is no basis, historically or otherwise, to say that Paul gave this command rather than God.

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