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Originally posted by _Opi_
You are trying to pick a fight..and digress from the offensive comments that RUGreek posted...and frankly, it's not working :-)
Nice try though.
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No I corrected you because you had trouble reading.
Anyway, back to head scarves: Even if you're not forced to wear it physically, often there can be an emotional hold over you. I would venture to guess that if that emotional hold was lifted, many less women would wear it. Yes many women wear it by choice, but many are physically forced to and many are "pressured" to.
The strangest thing I ever saw with a hijab was in south beach, Florida. I'm on the beach and there are gorgeous topless women near us. I look next to me and I see a Muslim woman. I say to myself, wow how strange because the weather is extremely hot and she's not just wearing a hijab but a full covering of the body. But then there is her husband and son in bathing suit and the husband himself is gazing quite intently at the topless women. That is an example of the emotional hold. The law in America provides freedom for this woman not to wear it, but she's somehow locked into it while her husband gazes at naked women.
Whether or not certain religions and cultures want to dress a certain way is up to them. It is the unofficial hold combined with how it only dictates how women should dress, that bothers me.
-Rudey