• KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Islam doesn’t force women to wear the hijab. There’s nothing about it in the Quran.
    It’s a cultural thing, and while many women are pressured or even forced to wear it, many others wear it of their own free will.

    The state telling women they can’t wear it in their workplace doesn’t solve the issue.
    And those women who are forced to wear it are effectively banned from working now, which makes the issue much worse.

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      10 months ago

      The “culture” is religious though, like we can’t pretend it’s a social thing, absent religious doctrine.

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      I mean yes there is the command to cover yourself in the quran, [24:31] for example (“… And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and guard their chastity, and not to reveal their adornments except what normally appears. Let them draw their veils over their chests, and not reveal their ˹hidden˺ adornment…”).
      Still, the idea of women generally being forced to wear it by their family/social circle is wrong.

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        10 months ago

        There is over 14300 years debate material about if this specific order to a time where women were targeted because who the were, or a general islamic rule.

        Regardless it is never, telling man what and what not to wear, but always telling women what and what not to wear.

        If the really care about Muslims women being forced to wear it, the law should be:

        • if you force female to wear or not wear anything then you go to prison. Then that would aolve the problem and gave people the freedom to wear or not wear religious symbols.
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          Ah where did this debate take place with ehich people? AFAIK all 4 sunni schools are unanimous in their intepretation, that people have to cover their bodies.
          It is also very much telling men what and what not to wear. The specific body parts that have to be covered differ from school to school, for women and for men, but every muslim scholar says that every human has to cover certain parts of their body from the gaze of other people.

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          10 months ago

          Well this is factually not true as Islamic law prescribes men dress modestly but at least cover themselves from at **least their belly buttons to their knees. ** If the shorts get too short men do get called out for it.

          Furthermore you are insinuating that a woman cannot, of her own free will, choose to wear a headscarf. So you the big important male must decide it for her. Which is not very feminist of you.

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      10 months ago

      The free will of women wearing the hijab comes from fear of gOd and social pressure of being impure. No person on its right mind would choose to wear it.