The burqa and niqab debate

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Kamal said:

Esmoreit said:
The dilemma is that, like with Christianity most muslims follow their faith the way they feel it pleases God-Allah. Due to my work I've spoken to several followers of Islam and most wear scarfs or Burqa's because they believe it's part of following their religion. This also accounted for single women by the way who's husband could not interfere. The same goes for muslim-girls who didn't even wear a headscarf. They believe that religion is what you practice in your head and your heart and nothing else.

I think that there is only a minority that is forced to wear a burqa by someone else.

Why can't every politician think like this?

This topic is a double edge sword, being a muslim myself I should be obligated to encourage muslim women to wear the Niqab and Hijab but  it's the person's choice if she wants to wear it or not since thats how free-will works. Families with strong cultural ties see that one of there female family members don't wear it, they think that the muslim community will see them in a different light.

But they still should not be able to force her to wear it - thats where her rights are eroded. I think we both agree that it should be a womans choice to wear it, we just disagree as to whether it usually is. I think that often a woman is forced to wear a burqa or niqab by her family.

Some people actually done their research Prophet's Muhammed (PBUH) wife Khadija was a famous business women and breadwinner of the family, with that as a example how can anyone say Muslims in a majority opress female liberation, this again can be tied with cultural influences or different social upbringing.

That was over a thousand years ago during the Islamic Golden Age. That period of time ended around 1300AD with the Crusades and the Mongols, ever since then the Islamic world has in general been far more socially conservative than the west.

Edit: Football fan your a douchebag, as one why would a women be stoned because or being raped? This punishment is a delicate situations it rarely happens and the clasues of the adultery its hard to match.

Under some extremely conservative applications of Sharia law that does happen. I'm actually against any religious laws being policed because they all seem to have some random and stupid shit in them. For example if the bible was put into law shellfish would be banned and children who disobeyed their parents would be stoned to death.

Footballfan you also think am a sexist? Your lack of knowledge and understanding just astounds me.