The Divisive Issue of Muslim Women’s Dress Code
In the present days, female clothing, like burqas (head-to-toe overgarments with slits at the eye level), hijabs (elaborate head coverings), niqabs (face coverings with slits at the eye levels), worn by female Muhammadan immigrants, appear to be creating numerous problems throughout the western Christian world.
For example, in Canada, female Muhammadan immigrants refused to remove face coverings even during citizenship ceremony. In US and in UK, suspected terrorists, male and female, wore burqas to avoid detection.
The Muhammadans claim, wearing burqas hijabs niqabs is religiously obligatory. So, being observer of complete religious freedom, the Christian world is allowing these clothing, reluctantly.
In the mean time, the use of these clothing appears to be disrupting the very structure of the western Christian society, especially, by creating unfriendly atmosphere and divisions amon citizens. The Christian world is facing unwanted dilemma. It can neither prohibit those clothing, nor accept disintegration of their social structure, and is desperately looking for a way out of this situation, without sacrificing its principle of secularism or offending others. In fact, France and the Canadian province of Quebec, seem to have become so desperate that they finally imposed partial ban on burqas hijabs niqabs.
However, in order to be religiously obligatory for the Muhammadans, a thing must be ordered by the Koran. As discussed in this book (sections-4.6.6-8), the Koran, in its entire volume, never asked female Muhammadans to wear either burqas or hijabs or niqabs. On the contrary, the Koran has granted full authorization to the government of a country to impose total ban on all these three clothing, in all public places, if necessary, and has ordered the Muhammadans to obey the government without complain and protest (section-4.6.11).
This argument is presented in Chapter 4, Section 6 of Problems of the Muhammadans. I’ve shared the full excerpt from my book here, in hopes that I can shed light on this issue.
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2 Replies to “The Divisive Issue of Muslim Women’s Dress Code”
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For every subject discussed in this book, I have presented the related verses of the Koran and my interpretations. Readers have all the freedom to make their own interpretations.