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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]I think they WANT to wear it (except maybe Iran). Read their posts online. The hijab is the least of a Saudi woman's concern. They wear it because they believe they should. Not because they are told to.

Do you honestly believe OP that all the Muslim women in America wear the hijab for their husbands? It isn't so. I'm Christian but I am surrounded by Muslim women everyday. [b]One day, ask one if they like to wear it[/b].[/quote]

Exactly. Like one sheikh said, I invite every person, I invite every woman here, every non-Muslim woman who thinks Muslim Women are wearing the scarf because their husbands told them or someone forced them to wear it , to stop the next muslim woman you meet on the street, you know that one in Tysons, and ask her. I mean,  let's not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel, let's not ask CNN, ABC, FOX, let's not ask the London Times or the NYTimes, let's not ask Non-Muslims about how Muslim women feel,  how they live, what are their principles , what are their challenges. If you want to be fair, ask a Muslim woman, ask a Muslim woman that knows her religion, who has a relationship with her creator, ask her.  But the problem is no one really wants to ask Muslim women, we want to take pictures of women in Afghanistan, and pictures of women in Iran, and pictures of women in Pakistan, and add our own bias to it. Where you find women oppressed,  women exploited ,women mistreated, among Muslims that's because those Muslims themselves are not representing the principles of the religion, and in every religion you have the black sheep, the fundamentalists and the right wings. [/quote]

So as I understand, in the US women are wearing because they want to, to express faith in their religion.  I can accept that.

In other Muslim (vs Islamic) countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and countless more, women are wearing because they are oppressed. So I am assuming they are being forced to wear it and they have no other option. And this is all man made and not dictated by religion. Islam says women are free to wear or not wear, and the religion imposes no punishment or stigmatization for not wearing the hijab?

And then these Muslim(vs Islamic) countries that force oppression on women are all under Western influence?[/quote]

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