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To: Neeka who wrote (168804)	6/6/2006 11:30:16 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (2) of 793843

I surely wish I understood the tradition of covering a woman from head to toe by Muslims. In a good part of the Muslim world it was not practice - and still isn't in many places - to cover women from head to toe. Semi-contemporaneously it originated in the practice of rich muslim folk in India and elsewhere of covering their non-working wives and concubines in rich cloth both for purpose of conspicuous consumption and to hide them from the sight of other men, particularly young ones. Ultimately, veiling women started as a fashion statement. Most places the poor never bothered until the puritanical ideological strains of Islam made female exposure an issue. For instance, I don't believe veiling women was ever an issue in Indonesia until the wahhabists made it one. The justification for hiding women away mostly comes not from the Koran but from the sayings of Mohammed's companions and is of the same spurious nature as quoting Christian scripture in justification of slavery: A lot of ME women of Mohammed's time, especially townswomen, were autonomous, and troublesome in that they tended to run their lives like men. This was an affront to a lot of the tribal men who became his followers - it was difficult to attach the property of women who behaved like men.... Mohammed himself was clearly a babe magnet and the women he attracted weren't putzes or dogs and he had some difficulties in managing his life with them and he sometimes stashed them away behind curtains when meeting some of his countrified followers. These geezers talked about it and these comments were then written down fifth hand about a hundred years later. The burkha is a crock and has little to do with religion and lot to do with ideology. It's an icon of a degenerate culture.

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