Muslim/Islamic Women

It comes from the fact that, there is a singular stereotype of the typical muslim/ muslima, and anyone that does not look like that pretty much is looked over, and usually not thought off as a muslim so what you get is people missing out on a huge variety of customs, dress types...

Originally posted by Zheng-ru Hello Bg Turk I am not sure about this, in Iran, for example, a very high level of modesty in women's clothes is strictly enforced by the "morality police". We have no proof that Iranian women want to abide by these rules, and I have heard otherwise from trustworthy sources. I have great respect for the Qur'an and the Islamic religion but the entire covering of the face and body is not mandatory, as I have learned from my Muslim friends. - Zheng-ru

There is actually a "morality police" looking out for what women wear?

Originally posted by Maziar Yes. The morlity police also looks for young girls and young men, if they hold their hands, As i was last time in Iran i was walking with my sister on the street as a policeman stopped us and asked for our IDs. We had to prove we are sister and brother and not lovers.

WOW, Maziar, that must have been humiliating! What happens if you can't prove that you are both siblings? Imprisonment?

They have a morality police who pretty much go beserk in Saudi Arabia too, your only insurance against it is having connections with the royal family.

Yes, this I've heard of. I've been told women can do very little in Saudi Arabia unless there is a royal connection. Women are not allowed to drive, go to university, or even leave the country without the proper consent from the husband/father. WOW, I can't even begin to imagine living under those conditions.

I've gota question for a believing muslim living in the countries where they have such "morality police" and all the restrictions,for the wemen especialy-do you think all those things are normal(like police wathcing out who is holding who'se hands and kising) and good,and what do you thing of the western laws allowing the same rights for both man and wemen and not having such "morality polices"?

I think the idea of "practicalities" is ridiculous; someone correct me if I am wrong, but is there dust flying about everywhere in Middle Eastern countries!?



Edited by Zheng-ru - 20-Feb-2007 at 21:10

But we are not talking about sandy deserts! Tehran is a city with buildings, for example.

And how do you know that women's freedom of expression is the equal to that of men's in countries like Iran?

Omar al Hashim,with all my respuct but i think you are trying to say that women in all the arabic countries are as free as those in the christian countries?It is more than obvious for anyone with a tv,reading newspapers ot at least magazines,that in some arabic countries women are more than slaves to their man,fathers and brothers.In such countries women are treated not like humans,but like something that cleans,cooks and makes children.This kind of clothing(exept for the places where there really are a lot of sand storms) is allso a kind of slavery.If they were free they would choose to wear what ever they want like in the normal countries.And if they really wear those clothes because of the sand,why the man don't wear them too?I've seen women that you could see only their eyes and next to them man dressed absolutely normaly.

Originally posted by Omar al Hashim I wasn't talking about Tehran, I was answering Mortys question about the Bedouin. How do you know womens freedom of expression isn't equal to a mans? I doesn't make sense stopping a woman saying something but allowing her brother to. And we were talking about Saudi Arabia, not Iran. Women can drive as much as they want in Iran.