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Muslim women are very active in Mosque activities and are in constant contact with other males during their many happenings and meetings. However some have remained faithful to veiling practices and encourage their daughters to practice modest veiling by mainly covering their hair.
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FG: "Veiling is a very diverse practice and part of a complex phenomenon. ... FG: "Many Muslim women do not cover their hair and never have. ... the Islamic hijab do so voluntarily. It is important to understand this. The Qataris do. ...
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While many Muslim women choose to wear the head scarves in accordance with their — or their imam’s — interpretation of the Quran, non-Muslims often see the veils (particularly the ones that cover most of the body and/or face) as a sign of religious oppression.
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www.apologeticsindex.org/504-muslim-veils/trackback/
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The most common form of veiling in Cairo, the higab, helps women express what Hirschmann terms their "dual location," as individuals, on the one hand, but situated in a communitarian context, on the other (p. 189). For MacLeod specifically, the higab is at once an indication of being a good Muslim and a protest,
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QUITE simply, no article of clothing so controversially evokes hostility and revulsion in Western societies as the headscarf, or hijab, worn by many Muslim women. Sampling the vitriol of a thousand talkback radio callers, this cannot plausibly be denied.
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The practice of hijab among Muslim women is grounded in religious doctrine, yet the Qurʾan does not require it. Support for veiling is found in the hadith of Sahih Bukhari: "My Lord agreed with me (Umar) in three things. ... Many women assert that the veil guarantees them freedom, dignity, and greater scope for movement in...
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Hence the unlawfulness of the practice of the Indian-style system of Purdah. Under this system, the Hijab is not only imposed upon all Muslim women, ... How many Muslim women in India know that? And who is seeing that they are maintained in the rights ... The veiling of the face by women was not originally an Islamic custom.
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muslim-canada.org/pickthall.htm
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While I can certainly agree with regard to rape and other forms of violence, when it comes to being “made invisible in the name of modesty”, some women do voluntarily wear niqab (which is what I suspect this means) and do prefer to be separated from men at public Muslim gatherings, as is normal in many communities.
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www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/09/02/standpoint_r...
www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/09/02/standpoint_runs_front_page_islam_bash
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But there's a form of religious profiling that some young Muslim women in America say they endure whenever they voluntarily wear the hijab. ... "When it comes to the hijab -- why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it -- there is theology and then there is practice and there is huge diversity in both," says Abdel-Fattah,
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